It’s great that the local cities and the county government
think they can negotiate how to share Local Option Sales Tax (LOST)
money this time without spending a lot of money suing each other
like they did back in 2002.
It’s not so great that they’re doing it at an unannounced time and place.
Kay Harris wrote Saturday in the VDT,
LOST talks set to begin: County, cities to meet Monday,
As required by state law, Lowndes County issued a letter to the
mayors of all the municipalities in the county, requesting they
attend a renegotiation meeting Monday, April 9 to discuss LOST
(local option sales tax) distributions.
“This has to be done and approved by the end of the year in
order to stay in place, so we have to start the process now,”
said Commission Chairman Ashley Paulk.
Well, that’s interesting.
When is this meeting?
Ah, the time of day wasn’t included in the article.
There’s a clue in
David Rodock’s 31 March 2012
writeup about the Commission retreat,
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