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SEP 131982 <br />The Chairman opened the hearing on the Gifford Street <br />Lighting Municipal Service Taxing Unit and asked if anyone <br />present wished to be heard. <br />Ella B. Hunter informed the Board that she has been <br />exempted from paying taxes for quite a few years, but this <br />year they charged her $12.00. She went in to see about it, <br />and now they tell her everyone has to pay tax and that she <br />has to pay $18.00 next time. Mrs. Hunter states that she <br />doesn't have any street lights and further complained about <br />a ditch her husband put in for drainage which the County <br />fills in and the water runs into her house and fills up her <br />yard,, which is located on Old Dixie. <br />Commissioner Lyons explained that the street lights are <br />paid for by everyone in Gifford under the street lighting <br />program. This program is meant to light up Gifford <br />generally and doesn't mean there will be a light in front of <br />everyone's house. The original plan did not call for enough <br />lights,.and the street lighting committee has requested that <br />the number of lights be almost doubled, which is why the <br />bill for next year would be $18.00 per parcel acre. He <br />suggested that if Mrs. Hunter has a specific problem about <br />lighting that she get in touch with Mr. Blayne Jennings who <br />is head of the Gifford Street Lighting Committee. <br />In•further discussion, it was explained that it was <br />felt the street lights would help make the street safer for <br />everyone and cut down on crime. This program was instituted <br />in reaction to requests from Gifford citizens. <br />Discussion then continued about the dirt on the <br />shoulder of the road by Mrs. Hunter's property and whether <br />it was County maintained on Old Dixie.' Administrator Wright <br />promised that he would check on this. <br />32 <br />