County Commissioner Holds Town Hall Meeting on Jan. 17
The town hall meeting, hosted by Forsyth County District 4 Commissioner Patrick B. Bell, will not focus on any particular topics.
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In a news release Thursday, Dec. 29, Forsyth County District 4 Commissioner Patrick B. Bell has called for a town hall meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 17, at 7 p.m.
While the town hall meeting will not focus on any particular topics, it will offer constituents an opportunity to discuss with Commissioner Bell topics of interest to them.
"There is no real subject," Bell told Cumming Patch. "I try to hold one every 6-8 months to get into the district and let people talk about their concerns and provide them with some information about county government. I think it's important to be accessible."
Bell also noted that he will not be making any formal announcements or presentations.
The meeting will be held at the Coal Mountain Park Community Building, located inside Coal Mountain Park at 3560 Settingdown Road in Cumming.
Forsyth County residents are invited and encouraged to attend.
Editor's Note: This article first appeared on Cumming Patch on Thursday, Dec. 29.
Susie
5:54 pm on Friday, December 30, 2011
‘There They Go Again!’
To paraphrase a celebrated fiscally conservative leader and friend of the taxpayer, Ronald Reagan, ‘there you go again’. I am referring to the fiscally irresponsible spending by the Board of Commissioners in support of Ted Paxton purchasing a $2M+ building to house the new sheriff headquarters. As a concerned taxpayer, I am witnessing mind blowing and uncontrolled spending by our county government and it seems like we have no say so in where our money is being spent or NOT SPENT!
Not even two months ago the hotly contested 2011 SPLOST ballot initiative that just passed by very slim margin, is funding a new jail and courthouse to the tune of $101M. So I ask the taxpayers of Forsyth County why are we “piecemealed” to death by Ted Paxton and the Board of Commissioners for more and more money? Why, under secrecy of executive session, does Ted Paxton approach the BOCs and request additional funds in excess of $2M dollars to purchase an empty/rundown medical building off of Bald Ridge for the Sheriff’s headquarters? Isn’t a hotly contested approval of $101M for the department’s use enough to ‘feed the beast’? Apparently, it is not. The $2M will not even cover the upgrades required inside and outside to bring this building to current code and building requirements necessary for a law enforcement building. Will the infrastructure upgrades cost another $1M or more?
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Susie
5:58 pm on Friday, December 30, 2011
part 2 continued....
I don’t know about you, but I am exhausted just thinking how the BOCs and Ted Paxton spend like Washington insiders. Forsyth County is NOT Washington nor do we want to be spenders like inside the beltway! When and where is this flagrant spending of OUR money going to stop in Forsyth County? We are in hard economic times. I am in need of a larger home, nicer car, and some new furniture, but my budget does not allow for that, so I am sacrificing. In these tough monetary times, our Sheriff is getting the new jail, a brand new 30,000+ square foot office and probably with all the fixin’s like new office furniture, a new building generator, new carpeting, new computer infrastructure, new state-of-the-art communications systems and whatever else this “palace” will need to satisfy the BIG $PENDER$ at the BOCs and Ted Paxton. The new “toy” shopping needs to stop now, if not sooner!
Been Watching
12:04 am on Saturday, December 31, 2011
Ted Paxton has the BOC in his back pocket. There's so much corruption in this county that it wouldn't surprise me if "perks" aren't being traded behind the scenes to get this stuff paid for. Paxton has pranced around Forsyth county begging people to give him a new jail and how do they help him? They set up a vote for a Splost tax, mask it with education signs in our county, and hope the turn out is do little that it passes instead of putting it on a national level ballot next year... We call this a mafioso...
Charity Zierten
3:43 pm on Sunday, January 1, 2012
Perhaps we need a new Sheriff and BOC? We can make it happen you know. If we care enough to stop the madness, we can make a difference by changing the leadership of our county.