Cartersville City Council Approves Maintenance and Operations, School System Millage Rates
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Sunday Edition August 18, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 U.S. Rep. Loudermilk addresses LakePoint crowd on gun control, mass shootings BY JAMES SWIFT tative from Georgia’s 11th District down the third base line. Louder- that the shooter was standing about [email protected] had just walked out of the practice milk turned his attention to a SUV 10 feet off a fence, directly behind cage. As the designated hitter, he manned by security for U.S. House the adjacent dugout. United States Representative Bar- stepped up to bat while wearing a Minority Whip Steve Scalise, a Re- “His bullet actually hit one of the ry Loudermilk doesn’t speak about bright yellow Kennesaw State Uni- publican representing Louisiana’s links in the chain link fence and de- mass shootings as abstract social versity uniform. fi rst congressional district. fl ected,” Loudermilk said. “It was a phenomena — rather, he discusses That was when he heard the fi rst When he glanced at the vehicle, miracle.” the subject fi rsthand as a victim of gunshot. the fi rst thing he saw were two indi- At that point, Loudermilk recalled gun violence. “I live in Cassville, we hear gun- viduals quickly exiting it — both of Kelly screaming “He’s got a gun, run,” On the morning of June 14, 2017, shots all the time, right?” he recount- whom looked extremely concerned. just prior to the shooter opening fi re. he stood near home plate at a base- ed at a North Georgia Power Con- A shot had been fi red at the team’s “He knew what he was doing, he ball fi eld in Alexandria, Virginia. It nectors luncheon held Wednesday third baseman, Trent Kelly — a moved tactically,” Loudermilk re- was the last practice before the annu- at LakePoint Station in Emerson. representative of Mississippi’s fi rst counted. “He had an SKS, it’s a Chi- al Democrats vs. Republicans chari- “Then all of a sudden, it dawned on congressional district, who was later nese-made military-style weapon. ty game, set to take place that year at me, why am I hearing a gunshot near promoted to brigadier general in the And he was picking his targets.” Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.?” Mississippi National Guard. It was 7:08 a.m., and the represen- The shot, he recalled, came What Loudermilk now knows is SEE LOUDERMILK, PAGE 5A RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS The Daily Tribune News took home 27 awards, including a general excellence award, in the Georgia Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2019. PADDLE ROYALE The Daily Tribune News takes home 27 awards in GPA Better Newspaper Contest STAFF REPORT The Daily Tribune News took home 27 awards, including a general excellence award, in the Georgia Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2019. The Daily Tribune News placed third in the General Excellence category in Circula- tion Division C and was awarded first place in the Best Sports Section or Pages category. Winners in the Georgia Press Association Better Newspaper Contest were honored for their outstanding achievements in newspaper journalism. Entries were judged in seven di- visions based on circulation. Judging for the contest was performed by the South Carolina Press Association. A to- tal of 80 newspapers entered at least one cat- RANDY PARKER/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS egory in this year’s contest. Meril Missbach, center, of Atlanta, and Anne Danner, right, of Decatur, are two of more than 50 players from Georgia and Tennessee who have Sixteen of the awards The Daily Tribune descended on the Champions Center at LakePoint for this weekend’s 4BELOW Pickleball Tournament. The tournament resumes at 8 a.m. News received were presented for editorial today. accomplishments and 11 were presented for advertising. In addition to the first place in the Sports Section or Pages category, photographer Randy Parker was awarded first place in the Development Authority approves Shaw, Chick-fi l-A bonds News Photograph category, as well as third place in the Feature Photograph category and BY JAMES SWIFT the bond documents, they decided that third place in the Sports Photograph catego- [email protected] their investment was going to be great- ry. er here than what they had anticipat- Managing editor Jason Greenberg also Members of the Development Au- ed,” he said. “They have decided that took first place in the Sports Feature Story thority of Bartow County voted unan- their investment will increase from $45 category, first place in the Sports Coverage imously to approve bond resolutions million to $60 million, so as a result of category and third place in the Page Design for both Shaw’s Plant T1 expansion that, we’ve got to amend the incentives category. in Adairsville and the construction of agreement because it was based on $45 Greenberg and reporter James Swift com- Chick-fil-A Supply LLC’s new facil- million.” bined to earn third place in Headline Writ- ity off Cass-White Road at Thursday The authority also voted unanimous- ing. morning’s public meeting. ly Thursday to approve a taxable reve- In addition to the shared award, Swift was Authority legal counsel H. Boyd Pet- nue bond series for the project totaling honored with four second-place awards, in- tit, III said that an incentives resolution $20 million. cluding the categories of Humorous Column, JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS The Development Authority of Bartow County approved a $60 was approved for the T1 expansion sev- “We’ve done one issue for them be- Business Writing, Spot News Photo and Best million taxable revenue bond to facilitate construction of the eral months ago. fore that had a series A and a series B,” Magazine Story. Chick-fi l-A Supply, LLC distribution center project off Cass- “Once we approved that incentives White Road at a public meeting held Thursday morning. document and started looking at doing SEE BONDS, PAGE 7A SEE AWARDS, PAGE 7A Cartersville City Council approves maintenance and operations, school system millage rates BY JAMES SWIFT recreation. tirely different than what this there is a $28,000 exemption [email protected] “The proposed 2019 millage City and this County does,” versus $40,000 in the Coun- rate is 3.295 mills,” he said. she said. “You’re talking eight ty, and quite honestly, that’s The Cartersville City Coun- “This is above the rollback rate times — not two, not three, something that we’re looking cil unanimously approved a of 2.106 mills — as a result, the but eight times — what you at,” said Cartersville Mayor slate of millage rate items at City is requiring three public were paying, and that includes Matt Santini. “I’ve had a con- Thursday evening’s public hearings for the public to voice school taxes you didn’t have to versation over the last month meeting — and got quite the their opinion.” pay, because 65 and older there ago about why it was differ- earful in the process. Resident Margaret Angelo is exempt.” ent, and years ago, both the City of Cartersville Finance took him up on his offer. She asked the council why County and the City were at Director Tom Rhinehart dis- A resident since 2017, she she couldn’t “stack” City and $28,000.” cussed the City’s proposed told council her tax bills are County homestead exemp- Angelo said that her retire- 2019 maintenance and opera- about eight times higher than tions, and asked why the senior ment fund has “done nothing tions millage rate, which will what they were when she lived school tax exemption in Car- but bleed money” since she be used for local government in Cobb County. tersville is lower than the one moved to the community. JAMES SWIFT/THE DAILY TRIBUNE NEWS functions such as police, fire, “We had no idea that one for County residents. City of Cartersville Finance Director Tom Rhinehart speaks at public works and parks and county over ran something en- “My understanding is that SEE CARTERSVILLE, PAGE 2A Thursday’s city council meeting. 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