Legals February 17, 2016

1009 ELECTION NOTICES

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CALL OF ELEC­TION
TO THE QUALI­FIED VOT­ERS OF DODGE COUN­TY
The Dodge Coun­ty Board of Elec­tions here­by calls a spe­cial elec­tion to be held on the 24th day of May, 2016, at the reg­u­lar poll­ing places in all the elec­tion dis­tricts of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia, at which time there will be sub­mit­ted to the quali­fied vot­ers of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia, for their de­ter­mi­na­tion the ques­tion of wheth­er or not a one per­cent sales and use tax for ed­u­ca­tion­al pur­pos­es should be con­tinued for a pe­ri­od of time not to exceed five years, be­gin­ning with the cal­en­dar quar­ter fol­low­ing the cal­en­dar quar­ter in which the sales and use tax for ed­u­ca­tion­al pur­pos­es pre­sent­ly in ef­fect ex­pires, and for the rais­ing of not more than $14,000,000 for the pur­pos­es de­scribed be­low.
The bal­lots to be used at such ref­er­en­dum for the vot­ers in the Dodge Coun­ty School Dis­trict shall have writ­ten or print­ed here­on sub­stan­tial­ly the fol­low­ing:
___ YES
___ NO
Shall a spe­cial one per­cent sales and use tax for ed­u­ca­tion­al pur­pos­es con­tin­ue to be im­posed in Dodge Coun­ty (such tax to be a con­tin­ua­tion of the ex­ist­ing 1% sales and use tax and not an ad­di­tion­al sales and use tax) for a pe­ri­od of time not to exceed five years, be­gin­ning with the cal­en­dar quar­ter fol­low­ing the cal­en­dar quar­ter in which the sales and use tax for ed­u­ca­tion­al pur­pos­es pres­ent in ef­fect ex­pires, and for the rais­ing of not more than $14,000,000 to be dis­trib­ut­ed to the Dodge Coun­ty School Dis­trict with such tax­es to be used for the fol­low­ing pur­pos­es:
(i) ad­ding to, re­mo­del­ing, ren­o­vat­ing, mod­i­fy­ing, fur­nish­ing, and equip­-
ping school build­ings, class­rooms, in­struc­tion­al and sup­port space, and oth­er facil­i­ties (in­clud­ing phys­i­cal ed­u­ca­tion/ath­le­tic facil­i­ties) at ex­ist­ing school dis­trict facil­i­ties; (ii) ac­quir­ing fur­nish­ings, equip­ment and fix­tures for new and ex­ist­ing facil­i­ties dis­trict-wide in­clud­ing, but not lim­it­ed to, tech­nol­o­gy equip­ment, safe­ty and se­cur­i­ty equip­ment, sig­nage, band in­stru­ments, and oth­er fur­nish­ings; (iii) ac­quir­ing, con­struct­ing, and equip­ping new school facil­i­ties and oth­er build­ings and facil­i­ties use­ful and de­sir­able there­to in­clud­ing, but not lim­it­ed to, a new au­di­tor­i­um; (iv) ac­quir­ing and/or im­prov­ing land for school dis­trict facil­i­ties; (v) ac­quir­ing books, digi­tal re­sourc­es, and oth­er me­dia for the school dis­trict; (vi) pur­chas­ing school bus­es or oth­er ve­hi­cles; and (vii) pay­ment of ex­pens­es in­cid­ent to ac­com­plish­ing the fore­go­ing.
The vot­ing polls will be open at 7:00 o’clock, A.M., and will close at 7:00 o’clock, P.M., on the said date fixed for the elec­tion, and the place for vot­ing will be at the reg­u­lar places for hold­ing elec­tions in­clud­ed in Dodge Coun­ty. Those quali­fied to vote at the elec­tion shall be de­ter­mined in all re­spects in ac­cor­dance and in con­form­i­ty with the laws of the State of Geor­gia.
Pur­su­ant to O.C.G.A. § 21-2-224(b)(1), the reg­is­tra­tion dead­line for tak­ing ap­pli­ca­tions from per­sons de­sir­ing to reg­ister to vote in this elec­tion will be at the close of busi­ness on April 26, 2016.
Those res­i­dents of Dodge Coun­ty quali­fied to vote at such ref­er­en­dum shall be de­ter­mined in all re­spects in ac­cor­dance with the elec­tion laws of the State of Geor­gia.
This call of elec­tion is given pur­su­ant to a res­o­lu­tion of the Dodge Coun­ty Board of Ed­u­ca­tion adopt­ed on Fe­bru­ary 11, 2016.
AL MCCRA­NIE
Elec­tion Su­per­visor
Dodge Coun­ty Board of Elec­tions

1011 FORECLOSURES

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NO­TICE OF SALE UN­DER POW­ER
GEOR­GIA, DODGE COUN­TY
THIS IS AN AT­TEMPT TO COL­LECT A DEBT. ANY IN­FOR­MA­TION OB­TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PUR­POSE.
Un­der and by vir­tue of the Pow­er of Sale con­tained in a Se­cur­i­ty Deed given by JOH­NATHAN E. MUL­LIS AND CATHER­INE E. RO­BER­SON TO MORT­GAGE ELEC­TRON­IC REG­IS­TRA­TION SYS­TEMS, INC. AS NO­MI­NEE FOR PRIM­ARY CAPI­TAL AD­VI­SORS, LC, its suc­ces­sors and as­signs, dat­ed Oc­tob­er 9, 2009, record­ed in Deed Book 643, Page 200, Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, as last trans­ferred to Lake­view Loan Serv­ic­ing, LLC by as­sign­ment record­ed in Deed Book 744, Page 320, Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia Records, con­vey­ing the af­ter-de­scribed prop­er­ty to se­cure a Note in the origi­nal prin­ci­pal amount of ONE HUNDRED TWEN­TY-SEV­EN THOU­SAND FIVE HUNDRED FIF­TY-ONE AND 0/100 DOL­LARS ($127,551.00), with in­ter­est there­on as set forth there­in, there will be sold at pub­lic out­cry to the high­est bid­der for cash be­fore the court­house door of Dodge Coun­ty, Geor­gia, or at such place as may be law­ful­ly des­ig­nat­ed as an al­ter­na­tive, with­in the le­gal hours of sale on the first Tues­day in March, 2016, the fol­low­ing de­scribed prop­er­ty:
SEE EX­HIB­IT “A” AT­TACHED HERE­TO AND MADE A PART HERE­OF
The debt se­cured by said Se­cur­i­ty Deed has been and is here­by de­clared due be­cause of, among oth­er pos­si­ble ev­ents of de­fault, fai­lure to pay the in­debt­ed­ness as and when due and in the man­ner pro­vid­ed in the Note and Se­cur­i­ty Deed. The debt re­main­ing in de­fault, this sale will be made for the pur­pose of pay­ing the same and all ex­pens­es of this sale, as pro­vid­ed in Se­cur­i­ty Deed and by law, in­clud­ing at­tor­ney’s fees (no­tice of int­ent to col­lect at­tor­ney’s fees hav­ing been given).
Said prop­er­ty will be sold sub­ject to any out­stand­ing ad valor­em tax­es (in­clud­ing tax­es which are a lien, but not yet due and pay­able), any mat­ters which might be dis­closed by an ac­cu­rate sur­vey and in­spec­tion of the prop­er­ty, any as­sess­ments, liens, en­cum­branc­es, zon­ing or­di­nanc­es, re­stric­tions, cov­en­ants, and mat­ters of record su­pe­ri­or to the Se­cur­i­ty Deed first set out above.
LAKE­VIEW LOAN SERV­IC­ING,
LLC is the hold­er of the Se­cur­i­ty Deed to the prop­er­ty in ac­cor­dance with OCGA § 44-14-162.2. The ent­i­ty that has full au­thor­i­ty to ne­go­tiate, amend, and mod­i­fy all terms of the mort­gage with the debtor is: M&T BANK , P.O. BOX 1288, BUF­FA­LO, NY 14240 800-724-1633.
To the best knowl­edge and be­lief of the un­der­signed, the par­ty in pos­ses­sion of the prop­er­ty is CATHER­INE E. RO­BER­SON AND JOH­NATHAN R. MUL­LIS or a ten­ant or ten­ants and said prop­er­ty is more com­mon­ly known as 403 9TH AVE­NUE, EAST­MAN, GEOR­GIA 31023.
The sale will be con­duct­ed sub­ject (1) to con­fir­ma­tion that the sale is not pro­hibi­ted un­der the U.S. Bank­rupt­cy Code and (2) to fin­al con­fir­ma­tion and au­dit of the sta­tus of the loan with the hold­er of the se­cur­i­ty deed.
LAKE­VIEW LOAN SERV­IC­ING, LLC
as At­tor­ney in Fact for
JOH­NATHAN E. MUL­LIS AND CATHER­INE E. RO­BER­SON
MCCAL­LA RAYM­ER, LLC
1544 Old Ala­ba­ma Road
Ros­well, Geor­gia 30076
www.fore­clo­sur­e­ho­tline.net

EX­HIB­IT “A”
ALL THAT TRACT OR PAR­CEL OF LAND LY­ING AND BE­ING IN THE CITY OF EAST­MAN, DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, BE­ING TRACT II OF VINE OAKS CON­TAIN­ING 0.38 OF AN ARC OF LAND AND FUR­THER DE­SCRIBED AS FOL­LOWS: TO FIND THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING, START AT THE IN­TER­SEC­TION OF THE NORTH­EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF EIGHTH AVE­NUE WITH THE SOUTH­EAST RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF NINTH AVE­NUE AND THEN RUN ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY OF NINTH AVE­NUE NORTH 45 DE­GREES 14 MINUTES 00 SEC­ONDS EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 106.66 FEET TO AN IRON PIN AND THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING; FROM SAID POINT OF BE­GIN­NING, RUN NORTH 45 DE­GREES 14 MINUTES 00 SEC­ONDS EAST A DIS­TANCE OF 108.68 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THEN RUN SOUTH 46 DE­GREES 00 MINUTES 00 SEC­ONDS WEST A DIS­TANCE OF 106.24 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THEN RUN NORTH 44 DE­GREES 46 MINUTES 00 SEC­ONDS WEST A DIS­TANCE OF 153.01 FEET TO AN IRON PIN AND THE POINT OF BE­GIN­NING. SAID TRACT OR PAR­CEL IS FUR­THER DE­SCRIBED AC­CORD­ING TO THAT CER­TAIN PLAT OF SUR­VEY PRE­PARED BY W.P. JOHN­SON AND AS­SOC. FOR CARL­TON H. MUL­LIS, DAT­ED DE­CEM­BER 4, 1996, RE­VISED SEP­TEM­BER 26, 2003, WHICH PLAT, RECORD­ED IN PLAT BOOK 34, PAGE 26, IN THE OF­FICE OF THE CLERK OF SU­PE­RI­OR COURT OF DODGE COUN­TY, GEOR­GIA, IS BY REF­ER­ENCE IN­COR­PO­RAT­ED HERE­IN AND MADE A PART HERE­OF.
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1013 LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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RE­QUEST FOR QUAL­IFI­CA­TIONS AND/OR PRO­PO­SALS FROM EN­GI­NEER­ING AND/OR CON­SULT­ING FIRMS
The CITY OF MI­LAN is re­quest­ing state­ments of qual­ifi­ca­tions/pro­po­sals from con­sult­ing firms and/or en­gi­neer­ing firms with a strong record of qual­ifi­ca­tions to ass­ist the City in the plan­ning, de­vel­op­ment, and pos­si­ble en­gi­neer­ing serv­ic­es and/or grant ad­min­is­tra­tion serv­ic­es for an FY ’16 Com­mun­i­ty De­vel­op­ment Block Grant (CDBG) through the Geor­gia De­part­ment of Com­mun­i­ty Af­fairs. Re­spond­ing firms should be quali­fied to pro­vide full en­gi­neer­ing serv­ic­es and/or ad­min­is­tra­tive serv­ic­es for a pe­ri­od of 2 years.
THIS CON­TRACT OP­POR­TUN­I­TY WILL BE A SEC­TION 3 COV­ERED CON­TRACT SEC­TION 3 BUSI­NESS CON­CERNS ARE EN­COUR­AGED TO AP­PLY. Please note: It is es­sen­tial that the firms fol­low the DCA re­quire­ments. These re­quire­ments can be found on the DCA web­site at http://www.dca.ga.gov/com­mu­ni­ties/CDBG/pro­grams/CDBGforms.asp
In­ter­est­ed firms should sub­mit your pro­po­sal to:
MAYOR JIM­MY KIRK­LAND,
MAYOR
P. O. BOX 87
MI­LAN, GA 31060
State­ments of Qual­ifi­ca­tions and/or Pro­po­sals must be sub­mit­ted to the City of Mi­lan no lat­er than 2:00 p.m. March 18, 2016.
If you have any ques­tions, please call (229) 362-4290.

1015 NAME CHANGE

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IN THE SU­PE­RI­OR COURT OF DODGE COUN­TY
STATE OF GEOR­GIA
IN RE: MICHAEL JO­SEPH WILL­ING
CIVIL AC­TION FILE NUMBER: 16V-7768
NO­TICE OF PE­TI­TION TO CHANGE NAME
No­tice is here­by given that MAR­IA G. LOW­RY filed a pe­ti­tion in the Su­pe­ri­or Court of Dodge Coun­ty on Fe­bru­ary 12, 2016, pray­ing for the name of her Minor Son MICHAEL JO­SEPH WILL­ING to be changed to MICHAEL JO­SEPH LOW­RY. No­tice is here­by given to all in­ter­est­ed or af­fect­ed per­sons to ap­pear in said Court and file ob­jec­tions to such name change. Ob­jec­tions must be filed with­in thir­ty (30) days if the fil­ing of said pe­ti­tion.
This the 7th day of Fe­bru­ary, 2016.
JO­SEPH I. MARCH­ANT
At­tor­ney At Law
Post Of­fice Box 4218
East­man, Geor­gia 31023
Tel­e­phone: 478-374-1505

1018 PROBATE NOTICES

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IN THE PROBATE COURT
COUN­TY OF DODGE
STATE OF GEOR­GIA
IN RE: ES­TATE OF MON­TY DEE WIL­LIAMS
ES­TATE NO. P-15-8965
NO­TICE
AN OR­DER FOR SERV­ICE WAS GRANT­ED BY THIS COURT ON FE­BRU­ARY 8, 2016, RE­QUIR­ING THE FOL­LOW­ING:
TO: WHOM IT MAY CON­CERN
This is to no­ti­fy you to file ob­jec­tion, if there is any, to the Pe­ti­tion to Probate Will in Sol­emn Form, in the court on or be­fore MARCH 16, 2016.
BE NO­TI­FIED FUR­THER: All ob­jec­tions to the Pe­ti­tion must be in writ­ing, set­ting forth the grounds of any such ob­jec­tions. All ob­jec­tions should be
sworn to be­fore a no­tary pub­lic or be­fore a probate court clerk, and fil­ing fees must be ten­dered with your ob­jec­tions, un­less you qual­i­fy to file as an in­di­gent par­ty.
Con­tact probate court per­son­nel for the re­quired amount of fil­ing fees.
If any ob­jec­tions are filed, a hear­ing will be sched­uled at a lat­er date. If no ob­jec­tions are filed, the Pe­ti­tion may be grant­ed with­out a hear­ing.
AL MCCRA­NIE
Judge of the Probate Court
By: LIN­DA S. MUL­LIS
Clerk/Depu­ty Clerk of the Probate Court
P.O. Box 514
East­man, GA 31023
478-374-3775

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IN THE PROBATE COURT
COUN­TY OF DODGE
STATE OF GEOR­GIA
IN RE: ES­TATE OF CHA­RLES ED­WARD BROWN, De­ceased
ES­TATE NO. P-16-8965
PE­TI­TION FOR LET­TERS OF AD­MIN­IS­TRA­TION NO­TICE
TO: WHOM IT MAY CON­CERN:
COR­NE­LIUS BROWN AND CHAR­LOTTE BROWN have for pe­ti­tioned for COR­NE­LIUS BROWN AND CHAR­LOTTE BROWN to be ap­point­ed Ad­min­is­tra­tors of the Es­tate of CHA­RLES: ED­WARD BROWN, de­ceased, of said Coun­ty. (The Pe­ti­tion­er has also ap­plied for waiv­er of bond and/or grant of cer­tain pow­ers con­tained in O.C.G.A. § 53-12-261.)
All in­ter­est­ed par­ties are here­by no­ti­fied to show cause why said pe­ti­tion should not be grant­ed.
All ob­jec­tions to the pe­ti­tion must be in writ­ing, set­ting forth the grounds of any such ob­jec­tions, and must be filed with the court on or be­fore March 9, 2016.
All plead­ings/ob­jec­tions must be signed un­der oath be­fore a no­tary pub­lic or be­fore a probate court clerk, and fil­ing fees must be ten­dered with your plead­ings/ob­jec­tions, un­less you qual­i­fy to file as an in­di­gent par­ty.
Con­tact probate court per­son­nel at the fol­low­ing ad­dress/tel­e­phone number for the re­quired amount of fil­ing fees.
If any ob­jec­tions are filed, a hear­ing will be sched­uled at a lat­er date. If no ob­jec­tions are filed, the pe­ti­tion may be grant­ed with­out a hear­ing.
AL MCCRA­NIE
Judge of the Probate Court
By: LIN­DA S. MUL­LIS
Clerk/Depu­ty Clerk of the Probate Court
P.O. Box 514
East­man, GA 31023
478-374-3775