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NEWS BRIEF: New Gwinnett budget up 8.1%, but no tax increase
The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved a $2.07 billion budget for 2022, up 8.1 percent from last year. The newly approved budget does not require a millage rate increase. The adopted spending plan consists of a $1.6 billion operating budget and a $455 million capital improvements budget, which includes funds from the County’s voter-approved SPLOST program.
11/22: Gwinnett’s budget; Privacy; Life saving award
Click here to read the latest issue. Inside this edition:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnett County Budget for 2020 Follows Six Strategic Priorities
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Some Thinkers Are Getting Concerned about a Right To Privacy
ANOTHER VIEW: Jackson EMC Employee Gets Life Saving Award from Georgia EMC
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Even Really Old Chuck Taylor Shoes Go for Amazing Prices
UPCOMING: With Drought Still Here, Watering Restrictions Are Still in Effect
NOTABLE: Two from Gwinnett Among Tin Drum Asian Kitchen Executives
RECOMMENDED: Foxtrot in Kandahar by Duane Evans
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Willie Lee Perryman One of the Earlier Rock and Rollers
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s the Mystery Photo for today: What City Is Depicted Here?
LAGNIAPPE: Here’s the Background on George Graf, Another Good Sleuth
CALENDAR: The Norcross Cooperative Minister Is Moving; Closed from November 23-30
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 5, 2024
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– American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 – 1959).
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Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
- Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- 21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
- Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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