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Tax collecting company offers service to Grove Hill Yolanda Thomas, a representative of AlaTax revenue Discovery Systems talked with Grove Hill Town Council members about the services the company could offer the town during Monday night's town council meeting. The Town of Grove Hill currently has the state department collecting its sales taxes at a rate of $7.75 per account or two percent of the amount collected. AlaTax, which collects sales taxes for Jackson, Fulton, Thomasville and Clarke County charges $2.50 per account or 1.85 percent of the amount collected. In addition to tax collection the company also offers business license administration, business license cross checks and debt collections. Town Clerk Michelle Floyd pointed out that the state was mandating changes in the business license administration process and those changes would have to be made by 2008. "This would be a good time to change if we are going to," she said. Thomas explained that the business license cross check would identify companies that were conducting business in Grove Hill that did not have a business license. "Anything we collect the first time, we split 50-50," she said. Mayor Lamar Hudson said they would vote on the matter at the next meeting. Other business Mayor Hudson told council members the former Chick-A-Dee building was being considered for temporarily housing the senior nutrition center, but the cost of cleaning and upgrading the building would have to be checked on first. A building permit was approved to reroof the Clarke County Museum. Council members approved hiring Bob Hendricks of McKeen and Associates to complete the town's audits for 2005 and 2006. The cost for the audits is $12,000. Premiums for the town employees' health insurance are going up and the council voted to continue with the same plan through Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Under the current plan the town pays the full premium for individual coverage and a - percentage of the family coverage.
Approval was given to advertise a job opening for a sewer operator to replace Darryl Horn who recently resigned.
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