By just about every measure, Barrow County’s government had a bad financial year in 2008, with revenues down, expenses up and the county’s main operating fund finishing FY2008 some $2.3 million in the red, according to the county’s recently completed audit. In addition to the general fund, the county’s water and sewer funds also had operating losses for the year.
Its worsening financial situation last year left the county with thin reserves from which to ride out the ongoing economic crisis. General fund reserves as of Sept. 30, 2008, were down to $6.7 million — providing a safety net of less than three months of expenses.
AUDIT: Barrow in the red for FY2008
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Anonymous
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04/22/09 at 01:51 PM
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So how are we doing on collecting those past due taxes? And when is the property for which taxes haven't been paid going to be sold on the court house steps?
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Anonymous
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04/24/09 at 02:02 PM
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well well well well.......go to the White House and bail out, everyone else is......um why can't Barrow COUNTY?
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Anonymous
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04/27/09 at 04:26 PM
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And yet they have money to pay the county attorney to sit at each and every BOC meeting. She never did before ..... Billable hours .... that's all that matters to her -- take the county for what she can while she can!!! The boat is sinking.
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joe smith
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04/28/09 at 05:36 AM
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How is she to have time to do your little report if you keep sending her home.