Taxes Could Be Cut If Local Tax Option Adopted
Aiken County residents could see a 50 percent reduction in property taxes if a half cent local option sales tax passes, explained J McDonald Wray of the South Carolina Municipal Association. Wray described Act 208 and projected reassessment impacts, noting likely no relief this year but possible future options for property taxpayers. Mimi Riles named employee of the month at UPS Aiken. breakfast meeting noted.
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Aiken County
S.C
Wray
General Assembly
Mimi Riles
Aiken Chamber
United Parcel Service
Aiken
Chamber
Linda Christine
Riles
Trophies Unlimited
Murray Wood
Hammie L. Chaplin
Michael D. Strickland
DOE plan to build Savannah River nuclear facility eyed by union
Union official says DOE decision to build a second nuclear fuel facility at the Savannah River Plant site risks closing Nuclear Fuel Services in Erwin Tennessee which has supplied Navy reactors for 15 years. He cites potential outages and argues work would not support two plants.
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Department of Energy
Savannah River
U.S. Navy
DOE
Clear Fuel Services
Erwin
Tennessee
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nolan Hancock
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Navy
Hancock
S.C
Cancer Society seeks volunteers for major study on cancer risk
The American Cancer Society launches Cancer Prevention Study II to identify cancer risk factors. One hundred thousand ACS researchers will recruit over a million participants who will complete a 400 question health and lifestyle survey and be followed for six years. The study aims to cost about 13 million dollars and relies on public contributions to avoid cutting other research programs.
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American Cancer Society
ACS
Aiken County
Box K. Aiken
Chesterfield St
South
Inflation factor in county budgets ruled legal by attorney general
The 7 percent inflation factor in Aiken County and city budgets plus the school board budget was deemed legal by a 1976 South Carolina Attorney General ruling. It clarifies that inflation driven increases, not tax rate hikes, may raise spending if services expand.
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Aiken County
City of
Aiken
S.C. Attorney General
Thomas L. Moore
D-Aiken
W. Scott Barnes
Tax Commission
Barnes
B.T. Brinkley
Roland Windham
County Tax Assessor to Retire on 62nd Birthday
Aiken County tax assessor Raymond L. McKenney says he will retire on August 19 his 62nd birthday. Appointed in 1980 to succeed the late William J. Coleman he has served as deputy from 1975 to 1980. His office completed a county wide reassessment based on the 1980 census and will finish the appeals process before retirement.
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Raymond L. McKenney
Aiken County
McKenney
William J. Coleman
Tax Assessors Office
McKinney
Coleman
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