Economic Dev. Tax Incentives Columbia County Style: The Sausage Chronicle, It's political consideration
Economic Dev. Dir Jesse Quillen
told the Board he refused to
back date documents.
Posted Nov 11, 2012 012:30 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Last Wednesday at 4 pm, the recently formed Columbia County Economic Development Advisory Board (EDAB) met at its offices in the Lake Shore Hospital Authority.
On the docket for consideration were two requests for tax abatements from Billy Nettles, the owner of Nettles Sausage.
Presented to EDAB were two recreated and unsigned letters purporting to be requests for tax abatements, backdated to March 10, 2010; a letter from the County Manager saying he had a conflict of interest -- he is related by marriage to Billy Nettles; and from the Property Appraiser, Doyle Crews, a letter and two undated, recently recreated and completed tax exemption applications, in which Mr. Crews denied the Nettles Sausage requests for property tax exemptions. What was the EDAB to do?
The rest of the story continued in Part I:
Economic Dev. Tax Incentives Columbia County Style: The
Sausage Chronicle Part I - The history
And Part
II:
Economic Dev. Tax Incentives Columbia
County: The Sausage
Chronicle Part II - "It's Past Tense"