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For 15 warm weather weeks, the Coosa Riverkeeper monitors and reports water quality along the Coosa River. For Memorial Day weekend, here s the first. ....
If you expected a proposed constitutional amendment that eventually would take away 23% of the City of Gadsden s budget to go unmentioned by City Council members, you were wrong. For some, including Mayor Sherman Guyton and council member Jason Wilson, there was ire over Sen. Andrew Jones, R-Centre, launching the idea of a phaseout of the occupational tax at a press conference on Monday without extending the common courtesy of letting leaders in some affected municipalities know about it. Jones announced the proposal that would affect Gadsden, Attalla, Glencoe, Rainbow City and Southside the Etowah County municipalities that assess a 2% occupational tax on employees who work in the cities. The proposal would require a vote of the people, and if passed would cut occupational tax over 20 years time, dropping from 2% to 1.9% the first year, then 1.8% and so on until the tax is eliminated. ....
During Tuesday s Gadsden City Council meeting, council member Jason Wilson reminded people that the proposed Pilgrim s Pride rendering plant came from the State of Alabama, which first suggested it for Etowah County s Little Canoe Creek Mega-Site. Wilson said the story of why the plant didn t go there varied it was too expensive to get water service there, or that the County Commission had considered it and decided it wasn t right for the site. But they were allowed to go through the process, Wilson said, of considering the pros and cons of the project, to visit a plant using the same kind of technology, then make their decision. ....