REAL PROPERTY VALUES INCREASED 20 Percent SO PROPERTY TAXES DON'T HAVE TO GO UP

                         Real Property Values Increased 20 Percent Increasing Tax Revenues
                                              SO Property TAXES DON'T have to go up

So why are Blount County,Townsend, Maryville and Alcoa employees talking about pay raises

and increased benefits? TRUTH RADIO HAS THE SCOOP. Before the poop lands in your property tax bill Truth Radio wants you to educate your Commissioners that Property Tax Revenues GO UP WITHOUT PROPERTY TAX RATES GOING UP BECAUSE PROPERTY VALUES ARE GOING UP!!!!! IF YOUR PROPERTY assessment VALUE GOES UP YOU PAY MORE property TAXES OR IF THE TAX RATE GOES UP YOU PAY MORE PROPERTY TAXES.

Commissioner Mike Akard in the Daily Times is QUOTED as saying, He doesn't see leaving the

tax rate at 2.47 as being a TAX Increase. The law requires a separate resolution

in a reappraisal year a Tax Rate above the Certified Rate because it represents a tax increase.

That vote will take place Monday June 10 th at 5 pm in Room 430 in the Historic Blount County Courthouse.

SO, Monday June 10, 2019 IS THE DEADLINE for telling your commissioner, TWENTY PERCENT IS ENOUGH!!!! the Unincorporated Blount County PROPERTY ASSESSMENT GREW THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS which when divided into the 2015 Property Assessment results in an OVER 20 percent INCREASE IN real property

vales.

Meaning MORE REVENUE over the last FOUR FISCAL YEARS BUDGETS from new construction which are to be capped by a Certified Tax rate. However the Berrong/Mitchell Administration and Commissioner Akard want a 10 percent increase, the reason for the vote.

A yes Vote Monday June 10 at 5 pm will raise your property tax bill an additional 10 percent from the certified tax rate of $2.25 going to $2.47 after County revenues have already increased by 20 percent plus over the last four years from growth and inflation of of the unincorpeorated real property.

Blount County's HR department reports our tenure rate is higher than the Dept of Labor National Average for State and Local Governments, and Blount County four years ago raised it's payscale to more than sixty percent of our competition according to the Evergreen study.

The proposed pay scale increase will take our county to paying more than seventy percent of our competive market employers. This pay scale will result in the per capita Blount County employee

making 58 percent more that the per capita workforce taxpayer according to the US Census Bureau fact finders 2017 income of $28,000 compared to over $43,000 for the County employee.

Maryville City's Real Property Assessment Summary comparison of 2015 the prevoius reappraisal of the certified tax rate and 2019 shows an increase of ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY NINE MILLION

IN REAL PROPERTY VALUES or an INCREASE OF OVER TWENTY PEERCENT AS WELL, SURPRIZE, SURPRIZE!!

While Alcoa only realized a SIXTEEN PERCENT GAIN OR SEVENTY SEVEN MILLION, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLAR INCREASE IN IT's Real Property ASSESSMENT values.

Thank you for calling your Commissioner before Monday June 10 and telling them that tax revenues increase when Real Property Values go up so Property Tax Rates don/t have to.

Mayor Mitchell's Failure to Fulfill Fiscal Duties Costs Taxpayers $1.6million

Two weeks ago WBCR AM1470 requested the cost of the contracts issued by the school board to resolve it's backlog of failed maintenance issues resulting in a $90+ Million High School
Renovation Project for Wm. Blount and Heritage High Schools.

 Blount County Schools in August and November 2017 signed contracts with Lawler Wood LLC for $489,740 and Michael Brady Inc. for $1.16 to provide a renovation construction plan for  Heritage and William Blount High schools for which they will by contract receive another 5.5 percent fee or approximated $5million for services rendered in the execution of the project.

TCA 5-6-106  outlines other duties of the County Mayor beyond Chief Financial officer include
serving "as a nonvoting ex-officio member of each committee of the county legislative body".
Therefore he has failed to assist the Education Committee or the School Board  over the last two years to find a way to finance backlogged  maintenance projects.

 The maintenance projects at the root of these renovation projects have been needed for several years,
such as failing to repair and maintain the science lab classrooms, at both high schools, the visitors dressing room in the Heritage Gym and the HVAC Air Conditioning pipes that are the source of the "Water Intrusiion" at William Blount requiring the running of 19 industrial dehumidifiers down the south hall next to the library and adjoining classrooms.

 If Mayor Mitchell would have attended to these issues coming before the Education Committee over the past 9 years he has been in office he would have been able to have his budget director 
or maintenance management team offer solutions to addressing these maintenance and repair issues before they have become a health and safety threat to some of the William Blount students in WBCR's opinion.

Instead the unmanageable $90 + million renovation project has been rejected by the Mitchell administration suggesting that Fund 177 be used to fund these needs.  Had Mayor Mitchell been visiting the Education Committee as TN Code requires the schools could have avoided spending $1.6 million in Architural fees and solved several of the underlying maintenance and repair needs for our student and teachers. 

 A prudent Mayor would have been going to school board meetings or at least meeting
with board members and or the Director for schools frequently enough to head off the failed $1.6
expense the the humble opinion of WBCR.