Fulton
Fulton School Board approves 2013 tax rate
For the third consecutive year, Fulton County property owners will be paying the same tax rate for local schools. The school board voted Thursday to set the 2013 tax rate at 18.502, expected to be the lowest in metro Atlanta. "Over the years, our board had difficult funding decisions to make, but it put the district in a much better position for where we are now," said school board member Gail Dean. Nancy Badertscher
No Fulton Commission meeting on July 4
Though it normally meets the first and third Wednesdays of each month, the Fulton County Commission will not hold a meeting on July 4. There will only be one meeting next month, on July 11, in the Assembly Hall of the Government Center in downtown Atlanta.
That meeting will include a vote — and the board's sole public hearing — on a proposed 5 percent countywide property tax rate increase. It would be the county's first increase in more than two decades and would translate to an extra $25 in tax on a $200,000 home with a homestead exemption and no year-to-year change in assessed value. Johnny Edwards
Cobb
Powder Springs moves to summer schedule
The Powder Springs City Council will hold their voting meetings once a month, instead of twice, during July, August and September.
They will be on July 16, Aug. 20 and Sept. 17 with work sessions on July 11, Aug. 15 and Sept. 12.
Work sessions begin at 5 p.m. at City Hall, 4484 Marietta St., second floor conference room.
Preceded by a 6:30 p.m. meeting in an adjacent conference room, voting meetings are held at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers, 4488 Pineview Drive.
Information: City Clerk Dawn Davis, DDavis@CityOfPowderSprings.org, 770-943-4349 or cityofpowdersprings.org CAROLYN CUNNINGHAM FOR THE AJC
Atlanta
Seniors can cool down at county centers
With temperatures soaring, Fulton's Aging Office wants seniors without air conditioning to use county facilities as daytime cooling centers. The county's four senior multipurpose centers will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and neighborhood senior centers are open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Darnell multipurpose center is at 677 Fairburn Road, N.W., and the Mills multipurpose center is at 515 John Wesley Dobbs Ave., S.E. For information and a listing of centers, call 404-613-6000. Johnny Edwards
CHEROKEE
Woodstock Mayor fine after health issues
Woodstock Mayor Donnie Henriques says he is "okay" now, after a spate of
health issues including a grand mal seizure. Henriques told a Friday meeting of the
Main Street Woodstock downtown development group Friday he went to the hospital after a blood pressure spike June 1. He says doctors tested him following a series of mostly-minor seizures, and determined that they were caused by medication that he was taking. Henriques says he will continue to be monitored and won't be able to drive for six months. Mark Woolsey for the AJC
