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🌱 Why did a $40K pension dispute cost Colquitt County nearly $600K?

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  • Why did a $40K pension dispute cost Colquitt County nearly $600K?
  • Moultrie teen found safe after disappearance near 11th Street NW
  • What the new 7.721 school millage rate means for your tax bill

Also on today's calendar: Colquitt County Packers vs Clinch County Panthers and 3 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the wall say to the other wall. 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Wednesday: Humid; heavy p.m. t-storms, with a high of 88 and low of 71 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Thursday: Humid; a p.m. t-storm or two, temps: high: 88, low: 71.
  • Friday: Humid with a heavy t-storm, with a high of 86 and low of 70 degrees.

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1. How a rejected $40K settlement cost Colquitt County taxpayers nearly half a million dollars (walb.com) — Colquitt County taxpayers are on the hook for more than $576,000 after commissioners rejected a $40,000 settlement offer in a pension dispute with former county attorney Bill McCalley and then lost in court. The money was ultimately paid from the county’s Capital Projects Fund, which is usually reserved for roads and buildings, raising questions about how the decision was made and what it means for future budgets.
   

2. UPDATE: Colquitt Co. authorities have located the missing 15-year-old girl (walb.com) — Authorities say the 15-year-old girl last seen near 11th Street NW in Moultrie has now been safely located, according to the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office. She’d been missing about 24 hours and was believed to possibly be traveling toward Albany with another female before being found.
   

3. School board adopts its property tax rate (moultrieobserver.com) — Moultrie-area homeowners will see no school property tax hike this year after the Colquitt County Board of Education adopted a slightly lower rollback millage rate of 7.721 instead of a planned increase. District leaders say careful budgeting and cost savings allowed them to ease off the earlier proposal while still managing rising expenses, and county commissioners are set to finalize their own millage rates next.
   

4. Georgia Tech expert simplifies data centers (moultrieobserver.com) — A recent presentation in Moultrie brought in a Georgia Tech economic development expert to walk local leaders through what different kinds of data centers actually do and how they affect communities. He broke down enterprise, colocation, hyperscale, edge, cloud, AI-focused “neocloud,” disaster recovery, and bitcoin centers, using examples tied directly to services Moultrie residents use, from 911 calls to pizza delivery and streaming video.
   

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