My guess, your once newly elected Mayor who's house was in foreclosure and now driving a Porsche has a new large bill he needs to pay!
Hey we supported Billy Kitchens also Jimmy, as my husband was personal friends with Billy's daddy, Robert. After many years in business in Savannah my husband left and moved business to Hinesville because of the dumbing down of city hall complete with mayor's $800.00 dollar lunches at the Rib Hut on the tax payers credit card. After many years of growth in Hinesville under great mayors such as Carl Dykes, Buddy DeLoach, and others the uninformed entitlement voters that pay nothing into the system, did the exact same except it was not $800.00 lunches, except it was foreclosed house, the purchased of a Porsche, and the dumbing down of Hinesville.
Mayor Thomas has never been a part of the private sector.
He has served in the Army and worked for the Corp of Engineers I think.
We have many elected officials in local office who live off of the government and simply don't appear to understand that in order to spend money you have to make it.
I've been told that we even have a city council person in one of our municipalities who is on the dole and is receiving food stamps.
At least part of this tax increase is due to the hefty pay raise Thomas and company voted for themselves during their first term in office.
And I'm confident that the glamorous new city hall and it's increased staffing and maintenance budgets have also had much to do with this increase.
if you want to really see how hinesville tax dollars were wasted go thru the new city hall. most of it is empty. i went thru it 2 weeks ago, it was sickenen how elaborate it is.
I think Ill go to the meeting with some of their budgets and talk to them about how they waste our tax dollars.
Example a 76,000 dollar sign, wait there's too many examples, but maybe we should all go talk to them, its how you change things.