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Thu., May 9, 2013 10:00am
Savannah-Chatham County police are moving some of their personnel into a new $4.5 million Administrative Services Center built on land once used as a federal agency's bug farm. City officials planned a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday.
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Tue., July 31, 2012 12:00pm
Officials in Savannah's Chatham County hope a mediator will resolve negotiations over how to split up a local sales tax. The county and its seven municipalities have until August 12th to agree on a formula to split up its 1% Local Option Sales Tax. At issue is about $600 million in potential tax revenue.
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Fri., June 15, 2012 3:51pm
Cities and counties are renegotiating the terms of a tax that almost every Georgian pays. All but a handful of Georgia counties have a penny sales tax called LOST. It goes into city and county budgets to offset property taxes. But every ten years, cities and counties have to renegotiate how the taxes are split up based on new Census data.
