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Can someone please tell me what's the listed TAX VALUE of those 4 acres?
I would look it up myself but I dont know the parcel number.
Commented: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 @ 2:56 pm
By: Washingtonian
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CV: I cannot state this enough: This one issue is a simple, but effective litmus test for governing stupidity ... a stupidity that has raised it head far too often in recent years here on the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners.
Commented: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 @ 1:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am not surprised what this rubber stamp city council did. Four of its members, one of whom does not even live in the city,.are sock puppets for the mayor, just like several school board members are sock puppets for the liberal superintendant. I wish we had true public servants who can think for themselves, but we do not.
What is mind boggling is why those idiots on the county commission establishment majority agreed to pay an inflated price in cash for this property instead of turning over school property they had little use for in the old P.S> Jones land. They screwed the taxpayers to the wall.
Commented: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 @ 1:33 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Its horrific that th City Council chose to accept th City Manager's price gouging RIP OFF of local taxpayers. This is how Govts lose th trust of voters! Its a display of Greed & corruption in their souls.
A staffer told: "It means whatever th City says it means." A true conservative can never give this kind of corruption a pass. WHY? Because it becomes like a cancerous rot on humanity that silently spreads to the community, th police dept, the fire dept, all the lower depts & th lawyers that represent them. I once had a Choco fire dept employee tell me: "Well sometimes we have to 'work' the system." Bingo! This means that to show favor to one groups means we have to take rights from a less powerful group. That's corruption. Sadly its how we end up with RINO's.They are blind to the creeping cancer. They go along to get along. Never accept any form of double standards or u will b slipping into th world of RINO's. Can someone please tell me what's th listed TAX VALUE of those 4 ac?
Commented: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 @ 12:47 pm
By: Washingtonian
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Concerned Taxpayer: We all do the best we can, and then sometimes, and on hopefully very rare occasion, we may fall short.
Having said that, when the money is on the table, and I am talking other people's money, I have always made a point of "knowing stuff, a whole lot of stuff," and then I usually hire people who similarly know varied other stuff before the deal is done. I pray that Beaufort County's bureaucrats would similarly take that same approach as I do, because ... Other People's money is definitely on the table with this incredibly monstrous spend, of the People's Money, on this hugely priced, and poorly positioned school. My advice to bureaucrats in Beaufort County, and in America; and to their associative politicians; some dimwitted, others much smarter: START KNOWING STUFF! A BIG changing of the guard is a foot, and it will be relentless.
Commented: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 @ 10:18 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This whole thing stinks about those four acres. Why was the school superintendant so incompetent to not know they did not own that track? Where in the world was their out of town attorney in all of this? In a multi-million dollar project like this, the attorney should have been riding herd on all of this, but since he was half way across the state, it appears he was NOT. Why was a professional appraisal not done? That school superintendant seems to think he is all-knowing but he has no training or experience in appraising commercial real estate. His just pulling a number out of the air based on how much money they had available to pay was as unprofessional as hell.
Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 4:58 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Jack Maggio wrote: "A more pressing concern is the suspicious timing of the four-acre property ownership change, which was close to the timing of the grant award. Why has that (NOT) been discussed by the commissioners?"
Because Jack, the 3 Conservative Commissioners were either not notified in open session, or otherwise; while, the 4 members of the voting block, known as the Center-Left Coalition, either had that information in private, or were given that information at the same time as the conservative Republicans (which I doubt), and deeply suspect that it was the former since two members of the Center-Left Coalition are married to school board members. As a county commissioner, I first try not to do what is ignorant. Spending 1/2 million dollar to buy land because the Durham based School Board attorney failed to conduct a simple title search is one big piece of the stupid tree; electing to spend 500,000.00 rather than trade 4 acres (of unused school property) in a swap, at no cost, is yet another bigger piece of that same stupid tree. After serving for 26 years in government, stupid politicians and their stupid bureaucrats are really starting to piss me off in a major way. We have seen what abject stupid governing has done to our Representative Republic over the last 4 years; much longer if you count the Non Patriot Democratic Socialist Lawfare in the first Trump term. Do we really want our local politicians to be equally stupid?
Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 1:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The opposition to building a new school with a $42 million state grant seems misguided to the growth of our community. While Beaufort County must contribute $10 million, the project is estimated to be under its $52 million budget. Other counties are moving forward with similar projects - Martin County is building a new high school and Washington County recently opened a K-12 school. Why should Beaufort County return this grant money and miss the opportunity to improve our infrastructure?
Having volunteered at Eastern Elementary, I've witnessed firsthand why replacement is necessary. I encourage those that oppose the building to spend a day reading to some of the children to experience the classrooms and the building for themselves. The concerns about cross-town busing are unfounded given the compact size of the city school district. Most Eastern Elementary students live nearby, and this commute is notably shorter than what high school students already manage with their extended schedules. A more pressing concern is the suspicious timing of the four-acre property ownership change, which was close to the timing of the grant award. Why has that been discussed by the commissioners?
Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 1:10 pm
By: Jack Maggio
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This one issue is actually a governing litmus test on whether one is a Leftist of thoughtful, on whether one is stupid or smart.
Big Bob never gets into the specifics on any issue other that to provide Leftitst speak. This is how Leftists operate. We are long past diplomacy on the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners when the Center-Left Coalition drives headlong down the path toward abject stupidity. Big Bob: It is quite natural that you would jump on for the ride.
Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 11:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Of course Big Spender Bobbie sides with the spendthrifts and against those who stand for the taxpayer. it is in his DNA.
Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 10:26 am
By: John Steed
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I watched the vid.
I think the far right coalition is in sufferable and have no diplomatic skills whatsoever. Most of us learn in elementary not to treat each other like this.
Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 10:17 am
By: Big Bob
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only a few survived.
Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 4:18 am
By: Testerhff
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Washingtonian: My position will always be: These Beaufort County ELECTED officials need to be smart enough to not be so easily taken advantage of.
Obviously that was not the case.
Commented: Saturday, January 18th, 2025 @ 4:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Stan wrote: "I do not begrudge the City for their taking advantage of the situation,"
I ask you why? It is a case of greed and price gouging. Even Biden said that was corruption. The City has shown a greedy willingness to cheat their fellow citizens It is not acceptable. They should be scorned!
Commented: Saturday, January 18th, 2025 @ 1:24 pm
By: Washingtonian
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The entire amount of money will come from the Beaufort County Tax Payers, and of that one truth, I am absolutely sure of.
I do not begrudge the City for their taking advantage of the situation, but the county commissioners did have the option to make a straight swap at NO extra cost to our county's taxpayers.
Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 3:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I might have to watch that video again, but it looks to me like it was the City Manager who pulled that $500,000 price tag out of his ass.
You can bet If that Money was coming out of the pockets of the 4 Commissioner's own pockets, they would have taken a lot longer to consider other options. Easy come ... easy go...by the spendthrifts of the County Govt.
Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 2:23 pm
By: Washingtonian
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Thank-you Washingtonian: I predict more Beaufort County tax payers will begin to recognize the true story of local government once their tax bills begin to rise in this Re-evaluation Year, when "revenue neutral" taxing policies become a thin disguise for Center-Left Coalition abiding county commissioners voting to effectively raise your taxes.
Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 12:04 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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What we have here is 4 county commissioners who dont have two brain cells to rub together. They checked out long ago to just be rubber stamps for the status quo. IS there a way to check to see who is getting RICH during their time in local Govt, both City & County?
Things might be a lot different if each official had to explain the REASON for their vote. STOP being frivolous with our tax money! Show me some true OVERSIGHT!
Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 11:55 am
By: Washingtonian
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Van Zant: The ill conceived perceived power of the Center-Left Coalition, who in a bipartisan manner swap votes to share power, has led this governing cartel to develop a profound hubris that has led to a plethora of terrible decisions that will certainly penalize the taxpayers of Beaufort County ... Especially now in this Re-evaluation Year.
Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 11:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I knew it was bad. It's even worse than I thought. What a tangled web.
Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 10:46 am
By: Van Zant
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I came into this hastily called meeting thinking it would take a matter of minutes to swap the two 4 acre parcels, and then I would be back at the gym, where I had just left.
Secondly, I did not realize that the meeting was being filmed, but am politically pleased that it was, since the Center-Left Coalition decided to show their true colors, and conveniently waste $500,000.00 of the public's tax dollars in such a willy-nilly manner. In the video, notice how the Center-Left Coalition, who obviously caucus to then decide how to swap votes to share power here in Beaufort County, would give no adequate answer as to why they would so frivolously allocate so much money, when allocating none would have sufficed to correct the gross incompetence of planning a massive construction project on land that one does not own.
Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 8:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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