However, Mercer County also stands to lose about $8 million in revenue which goes to the local school system if the amendment passes, according to Cottle.Ĭottle said any new revenue stream that is created in the absence of the personal property tax would have to be in “perpetuity” because the counties must have it every year in order to provide all of the necessary service to residents, from education to law enforcement to parks. “I support it, but we have to have a continuous funding mechanism in place,” Gearheart said.Īccording to Mercer County Assessor Lyle Cottle, the average annual tax ticket on a vehicle in Mercer County is about $450, with more expensive vehicles running $1,500 or more. He believes Amendment One will be approved by voters in November. This amendment will allow the legislature to cut property taxes.”Įnding the state’s personal property tax, which costs Mercer County residents hundreds of dollars or more a year on their vehicles, would be popular among voters, according to Delegate Marty Gearheart, R-Mercer County. “The goal is to publish this plan well in advance of the November election when voters will vote on Amendment One. Chandler Swope, R-6th District, said earlier this month. “The Legislature is working on a plan to fully fund counties and schools at least as high or higher than current property tax revenues,” state Sen. An on-line guest book may be signed at course, nothing is guaranteed at this point, and lawmakers are currently working to see what alternative revenue streams are available, or can be created, if the state’s personal property tax is ended.
The family requests that any memorials be in the form of donations to Alzheimer's Tennessee, 5801 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37919 the Habitat for Humanity for Anderson County, 111 Randolph Rd, Oak Ridge, TN 37830 or (Gift Processing Department, KU Endowment, P.O. A graveside service will be at 10:30 am on Sunday, November 24th, at the Oak Ridge Memorial Park, 1501 Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN. There will be a Celebration of Life from 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm at Calhouns on the River (Event Center), 100 Melton Lake Peninsula, Oak Ridge, TN. The family will receive friends from 10 am to noon on Saturday, November 23rd at Weatherford Mortuary in Oak Ridge, TN. Dailey and Darrell Tipton grandchildren, Allyson Mabry Lall, Erin Mabry, Layne Mabry Hellman, Lauren Staats Strange, Kara Staats Diaz, Erica Tipton Archer and Andrea Tipton step-grandchildren, Stacy Carter and Derek Henry nine great-grandchildren several nieces and nephews and long term friend, Ruth Skidmore. Tipton of Ocoee, TN sons-in-law, George A. daughters, Ruth Ann Mabry of Farragut, Nancy S. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 60 years Julia sisters Ruth, Hazel, and Ruby and brothers Harold and William. Percy was a Renaissance man and an extremely hard worker known for his "Percy-verence". He continued to live independently and manage and run the rental businesses until his death. He was a generous, giving person, almost to a fault, and spent little on himself. He and Bill bought and ran a 70-acre farm in the Bull Run Community for 30 years, and bought and flew a Cessna until they were in their late 60s.
In addition to his career at ORNL, he had several rental property businesses with long-time friends William (Bill) D. He retired from ORNL in 1985, but never slowed down. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate Degree in Physics by Fisk University. He worked at both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12 doing research on laser-based mass spectroscopy, fusion experiments, and production of Deuterium. They left Oak Ridge in 1946 for the University of Minnesota, where he earned a Master's Degree in Chemistry, and later worked in Merchantsville and Riverside, NJ. He married Julia in Marietta on August 23, 1944. He worked for the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, TN. He received a BS in Physics and Chemistry from Marietta College. He attended Marietta College in Marietta, OH, where he met his future wife, Julia Bourmorck. He grew up in Belleville and Parkersburg, WV, and graduated from Parkersburg High School at age 16. 19, 2019, at the Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge, TN.īorn February 20, 1921, in Belleville, WV, he was the eldest of six children of Harry A. Oak Ridge - Percy Anderson Staats – Long-time Oak Ridge Resident and Businessman, 98, died Tuesday, Nov.
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