• Listen up taxpayers, someone brought it up about utility costs in our local school system. The amount paid to the city of griffin, EMC and Georgia Power in 2010 was $2.3 million. In 2011 it was $2.3 million. I would say 20 to 30 percent of that is pure waste at our expense. Look it up here: http://www.open.georgia.gov/psa/poSearch.aud. They don’t seem to be concerned about conserving energy. At least UGA has made some efforts.
• Maybe the county manager can give back his raise to help pay for a roof on the new senior center, that no one knew about until now. The taxpayers can’t continue to pay for the incompetence of the county manager and also the county government.
• What? We have fewer bayonets and horses? What is happening to our military?
• Will someone please buy Mitt a map? He needs to see that Iran is on the sea.
• Let me get this straight. Taxpayers paid Larry Grigger’s company over $800,000 to re-evaluate property values, and he made a mess of it, reducing many assessments to values 10 years ago, but raised many to well above current market values. Now they are going to pay him another $30,000 to help straighten his mess out? This is double dipping and a conflict of interest at our expense.
• To whom it may concern: It is never correct to begin a sentence with “Me and....”
• The football season for my favorite team on the Flats in Atlanta is not looking good. I predict that when all is said and done, changes will come to the Flats and there will be tears shed all the way down to Griffin, especially on Wesley Drive.
Peter