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Pickens County directs staff to draft special tax district ordinance, agrees on 85% petition threshold
Summary
Commissioners asked staff to draft a capital improvement special tax district ordinance based on a Dawson County model, changed the preliminary petition-support threshold from 75% to 85% for the draft, and removed mandatory sanitary-sewer inclusion and mandatory FDR reclamation from the draft language.
At a work session the Pickens County Board of Commissioners directed staff to prepare a draft ordinance creating capital improvement special tax districts (CISTDs) modeled on a Dawson County template, with several local modifications.
Unidentified Speaker (S1) proposed splitting administrative duties: routing application intake and administrative tasks to the director of administrative operations (Phil Wood) while leaving field inspection and…
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