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[383] Utility of Immunocytochemistry To Improve Sensitivity of BK Virus Detection in Urine of Renal Transplant Patients
Semra Karaburun, Michaell O'Donnell, Pamela H Newcomb, Richard Cartun, Theresa Voytek. Hartford Hospital/ CLP, Hartford, CT
Background: BK virus (BKV), a human polyomavirus, has been recognized as a cause of severe kidney allograft dysfunction. Early diagnosis of BKV nephropathy is important because no specific antiviral therapy exists. The current treatment of BKV nephropathy (BKVN) consists of a reduction in immunosuppressant therapy. Urine cytology, detection of viral DNA in urine or blood, and renal biopsy are the main diagnostic tools. The purpose of this study was to determine whether immunocytochemical staining improves sensitivity for BKV detection compared to routine urine cytology.
Design: 50 urine specimens negative for BKV by routine screening were studied. 8 specimens positive for BKV by routine screening were used as positive controls. Thin prep methodology was used to prepare the slides. The slides were first stained with H&E then independently screened by three observers for BKV noting also any other findings such as atypia, degenerative changes and inflammation. Then, following removal of coverslips and rehydration, stained slides were tested for polyomavirus and evaluated by the same observers. Immunocytochemical identification of polyomavirus was performed using a rabbit polyclonal antibody and Envision+/AEC+ detection (Dako Corporation, Carpinteria, CA). The presence of any nuclear staining was considered as positive regardless of the number of stained cells.
Results: All 8 positive control cases were stained positive immunocytochemically. Of the 50 cases which were negative by routine examination, 8 cases (16%) showed positivity immunocytochemically. The positive cases were not specifically associated with atypia, degenerative changes or inflammation.
Conclusions: Urine cytology is an easy and rapid method of detecting decoy cells in renal transplant patients. However, routine screening does not detect all cases of BKV infection. IHC increases sensitivity of urine cytology screening for BKV by detecting cases with only rare infected cells. IHC should be considered in conjunction with routine screening, because early diagnosis of BKV is important in the management of renal transplant patients.
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He was 19, black and a resident of one of Buffalo's poorer neighborhoods. Police found his body on the floor of a home at 302 May St., just south of Genesee Street on the city's East Side.
Joe Joe, as his family called him, had been shot at close range.
A friend sitting on a couch in the same room was also dead. He had been playing video games. The TV was still on when officers found the men.
As far as killings go, Joe Joe's, which took place on a mild summer's night in 2003, was nothing remarkable. Most homicide victims in Buffalo are male. Most are black. Most die in shootings.
Police never found Joe Joe's killer. But that's not unusual, either.
And in this way, his passing haunts us. Seven years after the fact, whoever fired the shots that bled the life from his body might still be out there, walking free.
SOMETIMES, at neighborhood cookouts or at the store, young men who knew Joe Joe will approach his father, Joseph Thomas Sr., to say hello.
"Hey, Mr. Thomas," they might say, or, "Hey Mr. Joe, how you doing?"
Thomas, 50, will summon a smile. But as he exchanges greetings with his son's friends, the old suspicions will return.
When police arrived at the scene of the double-murder on May Street in 2003, they found no sign of a break-in.
That evidence led investigators to conclude that Joe Joe and the second victim, Louis Brown, 19, likely knew their killer or killers. Death came to the door, and Brown and Joe Joe let their assailant in.
So when Thomas runs into kids who knew his son, the same silent question always commands his thoughts: "Was it you?"
"I'm leery of a lot of people that knew my son, you know?" the father said. "I wonder."
THE CALL that drew police to 302 May St. after midnight on Aug. 24, 2003 came from a pay phone. The tipster was anonymous and reported only that some unknown trouble had occurred at the house.
Homicide detective Patrick Judge arrived at 12:38 a.m. With fellow officers, he surveyed the sparsely furnished residence, which Joe Joe's mother, Mildred Thomas, owned.
The video game console was out. From the position of the victims' bodies, Judge deduced that the outbreak of violence had taken them by surprise. At least one of the two men appeared to have "no clue that this was coming," Judge said.
In the days that followed, police canvassed nearby homes and streets.
"We'd go around the neighborhood, talk to people, see if we could get anyone solid," Judge said. "Nobody had seen anything."
Evidence officers collected at the scene yielded no leads. Very quickly, the case went dead. A few tips came in between 2004 and 2006, but Judge and his partners were able to rule out every suspect they investigated. From the scant information they had, police could not surmise a motive.
Thomas said that before Mildred owned 302 May St., drug peddlers had sold marijuana out of the place. As far as Thomas knew, however, Joe Joe smoked weed but didn't deal.
Still, in stories reporting on Joe Joe's death, the Buffalo News described two previous events that pointed to a dark side of the young man's life. First, Joe Joe had been shot in the abdomen on Goodyear Avenue in 2002. Soon after, police purportedly caught him driving with a gun in his car. Joe Joe died wearing a colostomy bag, a vestige of the earlier violence.
Judge said his unit had no clues linking the double-homicide in August 2003 to any other case. For that reason, he said, investigators did not revisit the Goodyear assault or interview two men arrested in connection with that shooting.
Buffalo is a small town, with a population of about 270,000 on about 40 square miles of land. People talk. But no one spoke up to police about what had happened to Joe Joe and Brown.
Maybe no one witnessed the murders, other than the killer or killers. Maybe the urban grapevine stayed silent on the subject. Then again, maybe someone out there is still keeping a secret.
"I can't say if there was anybody else there at the time or not. There very well could have been," Judge said. "In a lot of cases, there are people that are there and don't come forward. And that really bothers us…A lot of our cases would be solved if people came forward. There's always people."
IN THEIR memories, friends and relatives will set aside Joe Joe's vices and mistakes. What they will remember is a good kid, a boy who loved family, sports and his father's chicken noodle soup. He listened to rap, but borrowed Thomas's music—oldies like the Temptations and the Stylistics—for dates with girls.
Not long before his murder, Joe Joe had graduated from Seneca Vocational High School and enrolled to study information technology at Bryant & Stratton College, relatives said.
In any given year, the number of murders city police solve—including cold cases—is equivalent to about half the number of new homicides recorded, said department spokesman Michael DeGeorge. Joe Joe's killing was one of 60 in Buffalo in 2003. Investigators have cleared 27 of those.
Mildred held onto hope, believing until the day she died in 2009 that detectives might catch the killer. Before she passed, she would call Judge several times each year to ask about her son's case.
Thomas coped with loss in a different way: He dissolved his pain in a cocktail of drugs and beer, binging on poison for 11 months after the shooting.
"Got to the point where I was drinking a 30-pack of Miller's a day," he said. "Lord knows how much alcohol…"
His voice felt heavy with the memory.
"I was just lost," he said, simply.
He nodded. He has eight other children, by blood and marriage, but Joe Joe was his only biological son.
Following the Goodyear assault in 2002, Thomas had insisted that Joe Joe move to Amherst to live with Thomas and Thomas's new wife. The goal was to keep the boy away from the city.
But suburban life bored Joe Joe, who griped that he missed his friends. He begged to return to Buffalo. Thomas said no. Seeking an ally, Joe Joe turned to his mother. Mildred petitioned Thomas again, and finally, the old man caved.
Thomas thinks about that a lot—how he changed his mind.
His almond-shaped eyes, huge behind the lenses of wire-framed glasses, betray few emotions. But his posture—head bent, a slight slouch in his body—is that of a question mark.
News cameras roll. Off to one side, a reporter interviews a mother who lost her son. Police found the killer in that case. Speakers expound in generalities about the importance of cooperating with police, but even within this coterie of activists, who, really, could understand what it's like to live without closure?
In the aftermath of Joe Joe's murder, Thomas's low point came on July 31, 2004, a Saturday. He had picked up a prostitute, taken her to a motel to smoke crack, then followed her to a house on Goodyear to continue their bender.
In his drug-fueled daydreams, he saw friends and family walking and driving up and down the street, looking for him. He stepped outside to go home but decided, before he reached his car, that he needed to finish smoking some crack he had left inside the Goodyear residence.
As he headed toward the house again, he heard a voice that he said was Joe Joe's: "You outta there. Why is you going back in?"
Thomas got on the phone, crying, and described his hallucinations to his childhood friend, Nathaniel Beason. The two went to the first Narcotics Anonymous meeting they could find, and Thomas has been clean since Aug. 1, 2004.
Hoping to make a difference in the city, Thomas has moved back to Buffalo, renovating his father's old home, a buttercup-shingled bungalow near Fillmore Avenue on the East Side.
A contractor, he does business six days a week. On Sundays during football season, he watches the Buffalo Bills. He has season tickets. He takes joy in family.
Still, the old grief returns, often at random. He'll be working, having a good day, and then, all of a sudden, tears will be falling again.
It bothers him that he can't trust people in the neighborhood, but he can't help his suspicions.
On TV, he watches crime dramas—CSI, The First 48—and hopes the day will come, too, when investigators figure out who gunned down his son.
Thomas would love to ask the killer: "Why?"
He has imagined what he might say: "What prompted you to do this? Did my son do something to you? Or did Louis do something to you? What prompted you to go in there and do this? I would love to know."
FIFTY-FIVE people were murdered in Buffalo in 2010. As of the start of this month, police had cleared 21 of those cases. Some slayings, like the City Grill shootings that ended four lives last August, dominated headlines for days. Other homicides had a lower profile.
Murders of the ordinary lot—ones like Joe Joe's shooting—don't capture our imaginations. He is one of hundreds of victims just like him: another young man, killed in another shooting.
But Joe Joe's death was extraordinary for at least one reason. He was Thomas's son: not just a 19-year-old kid with bad habits, but a boy who loved to race in the soap box derby; a teenager who devoured his dad's chili; a college student-to-be who struggled to build the right kind of life for himself.
Buffalo's not a big city. Maybe you met Joe Joe once—sat next to him at a Bills game, or waited behind him in line at the grocery store. Maybe you know him.
For Thomas, talking about the murder is difficult. But he worries that if he doesn't tell the story, we'll forget about his son.
Maybe someone will read this article and step forward with information, Thomas said. Maybe someone who knows what happened to Joe Joe will decide the secret isn't worth keeping anymore.
Maybe, Thomas said.
He won't surrender hope.
About two months after this story ran here and in Artvoice, Buffalo's newsweekly, Joseph Thomas Sr. called to let us know that police had reopened and solved the case. We posted a video and short story about the update here: Closing a Cold Case: Police Solve the Murder of Joseph Thomas Jr.
Robert Salonga, a crime and public safety reporter for the Contra Costa Times in the San Francisco Bay Area, edited this story. Thanks, also, to Drex, who took a look at the lead.
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Yeah, I just don't know what to think about this. It's an all too familiar sad tale and it just seem like there isn't much I can do to change any of it? The story certainly puts names on the players and adds a dose of humanity to flesh them out, but I still feel impotent. Full disclosure: I'm an old white guy and while I did live in the city for 20 years, I'm now out in suburbia, and this is largely an inner city problem in the poor Black and Hispanic neighborhoods.
It's no secret that it's Black on Black violence, often drug related, killing these young kids. This is a problem which both the Black and Latino communities need to own. Unfortunately I do believe that current popular culture in both these communities fosters or at least tolerates this violence. Their culture and institutions have failed them. I don't have any answers. I wish I did.
On an editorial note, I didn't understand the sentence: "He has eight other children, by blood and marriage, but Joe Joe was his only biological son." So apparently some of his eight other children are the children of a his wife or wives from a previous marriage(s) but not biologically his. But what are some of the other children by "blood" if not his biologically?
Thanks for the story!
Color me stupid! Daughters never even occurred to me – how embarrassing. Could be the onset of Alzheimers – pity me!
This is a chilling story. It reminds me of some of the tragic stories of my former students. I can't imagine how you got this story, but I am glad that you did. Part of the problem is the fear that people have of "snitchin" to the police. Part of the problem is the availability of guns. People should not have to raise their children in an environment of violent danger. Breaks my heart.
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OWENSBORO, Ky. (3/26/14) — The following events are scheduled in Daviess County this week.
- Fifteenth Annual Owensboro Public Schools Fine Arts Festival March 24 - April 2 (times vary) – RiverPark Center, 101 Daviess St. More than 3,000 performers in orchestra, band, drama, choir and dance will perform in Cannon Hall. More than 600 individual pieces of art will be on display in the Lobby. Orchestra Night March 24; Choir Night March 25; Band Night March 26; Theatre Night April 1; Dance Night April 2. For more information, contact the RiverPark Center Box Office at (270) 687-2787.
- Le-Vel Local & The Thrive Experience March 27, 7 p.m. – Pangea Café & Catering Company, 1320 Carter Rd. Introducing the Thrive Experience to Owensboro, a "life changing hour" of how "The Thrive Experience" is helping the local community become healthy and live life they deserve without the daily struggles of fatigue, chronic pain, and more. For more information, contact Crystal Hamilton at (270) 313-7974 or visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1382876551983737.
- Owensboro Flea Market March 28 - 30 All Day – Owensboro Convention Center, 501 W. 2nd St. Hundreds of vendors bring their wares to the Owensboro Convention Center. Admission to the event is $1. For more information, visit http://www.owensborocenter.com.
- "Noises Off" March 28 – 29, 7:30 p.m. – The Empress, 418 Frederica St. A fifth-rate theater troupe unwittingly performs both sides of a comedic calamity in this play within a play. For more information call (270) 683-5333 or visit http://www.theatreworkshop.org.
- BPA World Series Qualifier March 29 - 30 (All Day) – Panther Creek and Fisher Parks Baseball tournaments will be held throughout the day.
- Nano Days March 29, 10 a.m. and March 30, 2:30 p.m. – Owensboro Museum of Science & History, 122 E. 2nd St. NanoDays is a nationwide festival of educational programs and activities about nanoscale science and engineering and its potential impact on the future. Nano means super small! Join the museum staff and learn how super small things are making a super big difference in science. Morning activity include, Robots and People (for all ages). Learn what robots and nanobots are, what they can do, and how they affect our lives. Imagine and draw a robot, designing it to do a particular task. Two programs will be held 10 a.m. and again 1 p.m. Call (270) 687-2732 or visit http://www.owensboromuseum.org for more information.
- Saturday Morning Live March 29, 10 a.m. – noon – Daviess Co. Public Library, 2020 Frederica St. Self-guided fun and educational activities with a focus on literacy and school readiness are offered during this event. For more information, contact the library at (270) 684-0211 or visit http://www.dcplibrary.org.
- OASIS "Chair-A-Tea" Fundraiser March 29, 2 - 4 p.m. – Owensboro Christian Church, 2818 New Hartford Rd. Annual fundraiser for OASIS, the women's shelter, will include a Tea Party and a silent auction of a dozen artistically painted chairs, a children's table set, doll's chair and toy chest, and many other items. Tickets are $10. For more information, contact (270) 685-0260.
- "Rhapsody in Blue" March 30, 3 p.m. – RiverPark Center, 101 Daviess St. The Kentucky Wesleyan College Wind Ensemble/Honors Wind Ensemble, with Diane Earle as piano soloist, will present a free concert Sunday, March 30, 3 p.m. at the Cannon Hall, RiverPark Center. Steven A. Pederson, Director of Bands at Kentucky Wesleyan College, will conduct the KWC Wind Ensemble, assisted by DuWayne Dale. Mr. Dale is Director of Bands at Daviess Co. High School. This 95-member group will feature traditional and contemporary works for the wind band by Shostakovich, Barnes, Biebl, Press, and Fillmore, along with solo piano performances by Dr. Diane Earle from Owensboro, Ky. She will also be performing "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin, one of the most famous and important of all 20th century piano/wind ensemble works. Visit http://www.riverparkcenter.com for more information.
- Donna Cori Gibson "Way of the Cross" Free Concert March 30, 6:30 p.m. – St. Stephen Cathedral, 610 Locust St. For more information, contact St. Stephen Cathedral at (270) 683-6525.
- "TWO Off The Aisle, An Evening of Lessons in Culinary Arts" March 31, 7 - 9 pm – various locations. The Theatre Workshop of Owensboro has announced TWO Off the Aisle, an evening of interactive lessons in culinary arts featuring several of downtown Owensboro's prominent cooks. Monday, March 31, aspiring chefs can choose from four fun classes focusing on very different aspects of food preparation. Bill Hughes, proprietor of Bill's Restaurant, will invite participants into his basement bakery to share the secrets of his homemade bread. 420 Frederica Street. Miller House chef Kasey Dillow welcomes students into the Miller House kitchen where she will teach the restaurant's signature bourbon-infused dishes. 301 W. 5th Street. Alisha Hardison, master baker behind Dalisha's Desserts, offers a class in preparing gum paste ornaments and tips for beautiful cakes. 1010 Allen Street, Ste. 200. Campbell Club chef Matt Weafer will teach students a fresh take on finding and preparing locally sourced produce. 517 Frederica Street. Each of the restaurants will be closed to other customers on that night so participating students will enjoy a private, intimate behind-the-scenes experience. A class is $20 for TWO Members, $25 for all others. The cost of the class includes a serving of wine, materials, a 60-90 minute presentation, and printed instructions. Participants will enjoy a fun, interactive environment and a sampling of food before leaving with new skills and recipes. For reservations, contact Theatre Workshop at (270) 683-5333 or visit http://www.theatreworkshop.org.
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A distinctive system crash problem, has me stumped.
This one's really got me baffled. In any given session on my laptop, I can load pretty much any installed program, no problem. BUT, if I exit a system intensive program and load another one, either the same program a second time or a different one, the computer crashes on load. Always before the program starts, always with a black screen and that "in progress" blue ring- which is frozen.
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The Atlee Raiders clinched a return trip to the State Tournament with a 25-17, 25-20, 25-21 win over arch-rival Lee-Davis Wednesday night in the 5A South Region Semifinals at Meadowbrook High School.
Atlee, 29-2, advances to play Princess Anne, who eliminated defending State Group AAA Champion Kellam – the team that beat Atlee in the state title match last year – in four sets Nov. 13. The two teams met Aug. 30 at the Virginia Volleyball Showcase at Richmond Volleyball Club, with Atlee winning 2-1.
First serve is tonight, 6 p.m. at Meadowbrook.
If at first you don't succeed…you know the rest.
The Lee-Davis Confederates' girls volleyball team subscribes to that mantra, and scratched and clawed their way to one more shot at mighty Atlee as the first-ever Class 5A South Regional Tournament began Tuesday night at Meadowbrook High School.
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December 1st, 2012, 04:07 AM | #1 |
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Best build for TVHM?
I just beat the warrior...I'm level 36. What kind of build should I respec to? Seems like all the popular ones require all the points of a level 50 plus some pretty legit gear.
Thanks!! I've stayed outta lbt so far. Should I get into it? As for playing style...I use a lot of pistols and love racking up mad anarchy, then slowly bringing it down in discord. The more damage the better. |
December 1st, 2012, 06:50 AM | #2 |
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Re: Best build for TVHM?
Building a lot of anarchy is very tempting to many players. So you are 36? I suggest specing into BFF for more DT enhancing and improving your survivability throughout TVHM.
Get a decent shield and let DT have it through Sharing and Caring. Annoyed Android is excellent against a lot of enemies. Upshot Robot does help too. To sum up, let DT tanks and you support him behind covers. After reaching level cap, test your own build |
December 1st, 2012, 09:41 AM | #3 |
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Re: Best build for TVHM?
If you can, get an Impaler shield from The Warrior and the Sharing is Caring skill from the Best Friends Forever tree. Not only will it turn Deathtrap into a tank, but it'll also inflict respectible corrosive damage to anyone that attacks you or Deathtrap regardless of how they attack you. Made of Sterner Stuff, Potent as a Pony, Upshot Robot and Myelin will also help to improve Deathtrap's staying power, health, shield and damage.
December 1st, 2012, 11:28 AM | #4 |
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Re: Best build for TVHM?
Plasma Anarchist v2: http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/sh...d.php?t=173112
The Shocking B!tch: http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/sh...d.php?t=192482
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December 1st, 2012, 12:47 PM | #5 |
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Re: Best build for TVHM?
Make sure you save most of the side quests that give useful items until you finish the warrior again so that you can get level 50 versions. One of the most useful is the mission that gives you the Firehawk shield. That is one of the best shields you can use on DT. It will obliterate whole groups of enemies that are attacking DT. If you can get a lower level Impaler it would be nice for now. It is also a very good shield to use on DT.
I'm currently using this build by Pelikins - Pelikins Build Having Discord available pretty much all the time can be a huge life saver in Part 2 where the enemies will eat through your shields and into your health almost instantly at times. The build doesn't really shine until later levels but I would highly recommend it if you like to depend on DT a lot. I would focus on the DT bit first and then the Anarchy stuff as it became available. Having DT there to distract enemies as long as possible is a huge help early on when your points are limited. |
December 1st, 2012, 01:10 PM | #6 |
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Re: Best build for TVHM?
I felt it was too difficult to gain and keep stacks of Anarchy in PT2 because you die so much more frequently. You could just go to the firing range in Sanctuary and build stacks on the dummy but I never had the patience for that.
If you have the right gear, a little big trouble build is awesome to run during the story. Interspersed outburst is a huge help in PT2 to take down badasses and the like. I personally picked up some BFF skills for survivability after getting make it sparkle. A zapper mod, shock damage relic, a couple of electric guns and you're good to go! |
December 1st, 2012, 02:02 PM | #7 |
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Re: Best build for TVHM?
In the first playthrough I loaded up with LBT and OC skills to really pump out damage. In PT2-2.5 I find myself using BFF and OC skills with some LBT mixed in.
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December 1st, 2012, 04:49 PM | #8 |
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Re: Best build for TVHM?
Thanks for the help guys! I'm now level 39. How's this build look?
http://www.bl2skills.com/mechromance...00410050100000 I'm going to put the next few levels in 20% cooler in order to get sharing is caring. edit: i have 1 point in MP because i have +3 from jill of all trades. Last edited by fingle; December 1st, 2012 at 08:09 PM. |
December 7th, 2012, 09:03 PM | #9 |
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Re: Best build for TVHM?
Put 5 points into "Close Enough" and you may want invest some points into Rational Anarchist as it is better than free lunch and synergy with Discord which i personally dislike, imo it is not worth loosing stacks. Typecast Iconoclast can be helpful in speed up stacks too.
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I guess this isn't -as bad- of a bump.
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PTC incurs debt without voter approval
Once upon a time, when local governments wanted to borrow money to pay for a new building or buy a new fire truck, the elected officials had two ways to go: Ask the voters to approve a bond referendum or pay for it out of current tax revenue cash flow.
No more. Now, using a variety of legal alternative borrowing methods, the governing body can skip the voter approval process and borrow as much money as lenders will allow.
An examination by The Citizen shows that more than three-quarters of the short and long-term financing being paid by Peachtree City was authorized without the necessity of prior taxpayer approval.
Peachtree City taxpayers are on the hook for $17.87 million currently in city-incurred debt. More than 80 percent of the debt owed by Peachtree City currently is debt that never went before the voters for approval. Slightly under 20 percent of the city's outstanding debt actually received direct voter approval through the bond referendum process.
For comparison, the city's current annual budget is $33.7 million. The total amount of debt — in the unlikely event all debts suddenly came due — represents 53 percent of this year's total budget amount. Those various debts are being repaid over an extended period.
However, the various financing arrangements affect the bottom line of the city's budget, with $3.31 million in debt service payments this year, accounting for 9.8 percent of the city's total budget for the year.
Figures provided by the city show $3.47 million in outstanding principal for general obligation (GO) bonds approved by voters, compared to $14.4 million for all other financing instruments which did not require voter approval.
That figure dwindles down over subsequent years as loans are paid off. The estimated figure for FY 2014 drops to $2.92 million, and to $2.58 million in FY 2015 and $2.24 million in FY 2016 before dropping to $1.6 million in FY 2017.
That assumes no more debt will be incurred.
Among the projects used for financing without voter approval is the 2002 purchase of a 5-acre tract of land off Ga. Highway 54 adjacent to the Wynnmeade subdivision, which gave the city $843,000 and is requiring annual debt service of $86,880 until it expires in FY 2017 with a final payment of $65,160.
At the other end of the non-voter approved category is the public facilities bond approved by council last year, which was lumped with refinancing of two other outstanding bond for a total loan amount of $5.4 million, with $3 million earmarked toward repairs and upgrades to existing city facilities.
That loan, which helped pay for the new bubble enclosure over the Kedron pools, will expire in FY 2022 and this year alone is requiring a $633,000 payment, nearly a fifth of the city's financing payments for the current fiscal year.
The two bonds refinanced with the facilities bond included the remaining $1.88 million in principal from a bricks and mortar loan from 2007 and the remaining $746,000 in principal from an energy performance contract which resulted in energy-saving fixtures being installed in city buildings to save on utility costs.
City Finance Director Paul Salvatore noted that the majority of the debt that has been accrued without voter approval was for "essential infrastructure upgrades."
"We have no choice to spend on stormwater improvements, and can't allow other infrastructure to just deteriorate either, so voter approval is generally not sought for those type of expenses," Salvatore said.
As for bond debt authorized by voters, the city has $3.47 million in outstanding principle remaining on three different bond issues: a 2002 issue for improvements to Falcon Field Airport, a 2003 refunding of a recreation bond and a 2011 refunding of the bond for library construction.
Of those issues, the 2002 Falcon Field bond expires with a final payment of $163,680 in FY 2015, taking it off the books completely. Of the other two bonds, the '03 recreation deal sees its final installment of $201,354 paid in FY 2018 while the '11 library refunding ends in FY 2019 with a final payment of $431,375.
The city has also used other debt instruments such as equipment lease-purchase deals to buy vehicles for the police and fire departments so they can be amortized over five or seven years. These short-term arrangements account for just $1.21 million of the city's total outstanding principle of $16.8 million.
In 2008 the city council authorized using $1.1 million for the purchase of vehicles and a fire truck; and again in 2010 when $1.01 million was financed in a similar arrangement.
Last year the city used an equipment lease-purchase deal to the tune of $489,000 and two weeks ago a similar deal was entered to purchase equipment ranging from new computers to a new rescue truck for the fire department along with three new dump trucks and a police motorcycle for $1.01 million.
Most of the equipment lease-purchase deals are for short-term financing over five years although one was leveraged over seven years.
The biggest drag on the outstanding principal are the four brick and mortar long-term lease purchase deals entered in 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2009, none of which required voter approval. Those deals have an outstanding principal of $4.55 million, which dwarfs the outstanding principal from voter-approved general obligation bonds of $3.47 million.
The city has used brick and mortar loans for longer-term financing such as the 1999 police headquarters construction project. Of the city's four such outstanding loans, three will be fully paid off by 2017. But a 2009 note for citywide improvements that called for $2.55 million won't be fully paid off until FY 2024, taking annual payments of $230,000 from the city's general fund.
The city's other large outstanding debt instrument is the 2007 stormwater bond that gave the city $3.74 million in proceeds but will be fully paid off in 2027.
Of all the various financing projects, the 2002 purchase of the land off Ga. Highway 54 near Wynnmeade hasn't come close to meeting its final use. Part of the reasoning for the purchase was to prevent a developer from building a proposed gas station, but the other reason was to have a place for a "gateway" cart path bridge to land on that side of the highway.
The path bridge has not yet been built and is not in the city's near-term plans at this point.
The good news about the city's use of debt the past few years has been the incredibly low interest rates the city has achieved, said city Finance Director Paul Salvatore. It also helps level out the annual cost of vehicle purchases, which can vary wildly from year to year depending on the city's needs, he said.
"With interest rates as ridiculously low as they are right now, it makes sense to take advantage of this in order to smooth out annual budget costs and not use big chunks of fund balance each year," Salvatore said.
There is also the principle of intergenerational equity, which means that with the cost spread out over the life of the loans taxpayers avoid the big hit of a fire truck purchase, for example, and if they move out the next year they won't get the full benefit of what they helped pay for, Salvatore explained.
Some years back when the city paid cash for items, its money was in the bank getting decent interest rates, Salvatore said. But that changed when the economy took a turn for the worse and it made more sense to use the low interest rates for favorable financing, he added.
That purchase of the land off Hwy. 54 for the gateway cart path bridge was notable because former Mayor Bob Lenox criticized council and particularly then-Mayor Steve Brown for debating the matter behind closed doors instead of in public. State law allows governing bodies such as the city to meet in closed session for the acquisition of real estate, ostensibly to keep others from driving up the price for the parcel the city is considering.
Brown said the city would not be able to prevent the gas station rezoning, but Lenox noted that the city plan called for a zoning that would limit it to use as a bank or day care, while part of the parcel was planned for residential use.
"We needed somewhere to land a bridge, Bob," Brown said at the time.
Now, some 11 years later, Peachtree City taxpayers have paid for a parcel to nowhere, as there are no plans anytime soon to build the coveted gateway bridge.
If all debt is equal to 53% of this years budget than I think we have over extended ourselves. If you or I went to the bank and asked for a loan, with debt equaling this amount do you think that the banks would be eager to lend? Now, I understand PTC is not an individual borrower, and I don't understand govt borrowing, but this seems like a lot of money financed thru 2024. That's 11 more years to pay for 2009 city improvements.
Now I approve refinancing loans to take advantage of lower rates, but I think we need to rein in long term debt that is paying for improvements that will require more improvements by the time the loan is paid off.
My parents thought me, and I am teaching my children how to live within our means. For a city, this means smart growth with long term high tax potential, and filling up our empty office and industrial parks, which in turn will fuel housing and retail.
I chose to live in PTC because it is a safe, family oriented place to live. I also limit my personal long term debt to my mortgage. Any other debt is paid off in full each month, just like my parents and in-laws taught my wife and I. We have our emergency fund, monthly bills, rainy day fund for family vacations, retirement fund, and long term stock market investments. Why can't a small city such as PTC also live within our means without playing the shell game and exposing our kids to this ponzi method of paying it back.
The article is slighty confusing and its important to clarify between what is new debt from new bonds issued by this council (2008 and on) vs old debt from older bonds where the city staff took advantage of lower interest rates saving the city money by re-financing.
Not sure that re-financing requires a voter referendum and in actuality, taking advantage of lower interest and saving the taxpayers money is good business.
As for equipment leasing, is that subject to voter referendums? Not sure.
Finally, what is our total debt in comparison to other cities in GA and accross the US. I suspect relatively low earning us the high credit rating.
What I find disturbing is...we know that council does not respond to blogs, but our mayor does and here he is silent on this topic
Does Georgia Miltiary College offer classes in Muni Bonds 101?
My dad, who well remembered the market crash in 1929, also worked two jobs, when he could find them. He gave up an arm in WWII, yet could still outwork most able bodied men into his 50s.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with anything relating to PTC's debt. The debt is well within reason, based on city revenues. Will it all be paid off in the lifetimes of the current citizenry and council? Of course not, nor should it be.
Oh, and my Dad...the process of losing an arm was an eye-opener he said. He realized how fragile his life - and the lives of every single person on this planet - actually are. And while he never had much, he always vowed that if he wanted something, he'd find a way to get it - NOW. If it cost a 6 cents, and he had a nickel, he'd borrow a penny every time.
He never backed away from those words. We took trips as a family we likely couldn't 'afford' by Dave Ramsey standards, drove cars we couldn't 'afford,' and lived a good life, all financed by any institution willing to lend.
My dad made it to his early 60s, and as he lay in a hospital bed dying of a sudden stroke, the last thing on my mind was debt. What was on my mind was the joy we'd shared, the things we'd done together, the things we'd seen.
Whatever he had spent, every dime was worth it to have had things that enriched our lives.
So how does that relate to PTC? Mr. King, your constant negativity seems to indicate that you believe PTC city officials are out to undermine our city, subvert the will of the people, and in short order ruin this wonderful town.
I, on the other hand, and most responsible residents, realize that the process of governing is simply not a perfect exercise. Is Mayor Haddix two doughnuts short of a baker's dozen? Absolutely. But that's what elections are for...
In closing Mr. King, enjoy life for a day or two...go buy yourself a trip you can't afford, now, and take a fresh, cheerful look at the world we live in...might improve your disposition.
We're obviously proud of our fathers, we simply disagree regarding debt.
It relates to PTC when the amount of debt exceeds half of annual revenues and climbing, our quality of life here in PTC has peaked with a decline in sight, the population is aging, and city revenues also in decline. Whether anyone is out to undermine PTC is doubtful, but borrowing one's way to prosperity is not a choice I would make.
Please, I do enjoy myself and my retirement with golf four days weekly, trips to the gym every other day, beer with the guys a couple times here and there, vacations when we desire. The nicest part, however, is that I don't owe anyone a damn thing!
To Mr. King, and the author of this story who of course carries a strong anti-debt bias:
All debt is not evil. At current rates, it's a huge mistake NOT to utilize ultra low-cost debt to protect city services and service levels.
Sounds to me like Mr. Salvatore has a very logical, sound plan for utilizing these unique market conditions to the betterment of the city. Let's show praise for that, not cower under the unfounded fear of borrowed money.
With an operating budget of mearly $34 million, long term debt of $17 million or so is far from unreasonable. Nearly every major American corporation takes on debt, regardless of profitability. They use it to manage their business, and nearly all do so responsibly.
In PTC, high levels of service protect the property values that protect the city's revenue base. So, if money's cheap, use it to affordably meet city needs, keep the tax base strong, and in the end, help preserve the culture that makes PTC a special place to live.
Mr. King, over the years I've read many of your comments. I admire your dedication and perserverence. However...you seem incapable of looking at things in a positive way, EVER. I would hope that you would occasionally smile, laugh, relax, and enjoy the wonderful life afforded to us by living in PTC.
Two great, intelligent posts, but I don't think Mike King will get it, he knows more than any posters here, and all government in general is out to ruin our lives, the lives of our children and our children's children – In our case (PTC) I'm not sure, but I'm guessing its maybe one of the Ladies on Council steering this evil government plot against it's citizenry.
You are indeed correct in that all debt is not all evil, but when it becomes second nature for political leaders at all levels to finance projects so that the pain of making restitution is borne by others, to me is unacceptable. I would agree that a debt level for a city such as ours would be within reason if it does not exceed the amount of cash readily available as a reserve. To do otherwise, simply tosses the burden of repayment to others less responsible. In other words, our federal government has no problem placing my kids and grand kids into a debt they had no say in.
Now, if you are of a mind that your children are responsible for the debts you create we simply disagree. Further, if you believe it is the obligation of responsible individuals to repay the debts of those among us who live far beyond our means we again must disagree.
I am the way I am because I watched my Dad work two jobs to free himself and his family from debt and pass that mindset on to his five kids. Don't get me wrong, he incurred debts later as have I, but once one has tasted being free of debt he nor I have borrowed more than we could pay off the next day.
Illustrated another way, would be that you wouldn't purchase property valued at $100K for $300K, now would you? Your city did just that when they purchased the Wynnemeade property for a cart bridge that we're still paying for.
This process has an eerie resemblance to our federal government simply spending money and charging our kids and grand kids with the debt. It matters not that these elected fiscal midgets were elected on the premise that they would do what is best for their constituency, what matters to them is an ability to spin the truth in order to placate their egos.
Further, this Council like those before it refuse to stand any principled ground against the whims of department heads for fear of being labeled anti safety or whatever. Two examples come to mind:
First, our recently retired fire chief whose despicable conduct was common knowledge for quite some time within the fire department, but no one within the city government would make even a ripple of an effort to bring this to the attention of the public.
Second, in this age of economic strife can anyone justify the hiring of an assistant to our 'beleaguered' police chief? Let's face facts, if the man can not handle a department of seventy some officers and administrative types why did we hire the man in the first place?
Without question the land purchase by Steve Brown was ill conceived and wrong headed, but Mr Brown simply opened the floodgates for Councils to follow. I do hope the personal finances of those we elect reflect a somewhat different perspective.
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What happens when you mix thrash and nu metal? Falmouth based Kaideka of course. Sounding like a revamped version of Slipknot's self titled debut album – False Idols and Pyrite Thrones is a shining example of a metal album, being technically brilliant; combining: Ferocity, musical brilliance and catchy songs to form one of the heaviest albums of 2011. No one would ever dream of combining two rivalling genres such as thrash and nu metal, but Kaideka have pulled it off, and in doing so have created a hybrid of metal music mastery. False Idols and Pyrite Thrones will have you banging your head at 150mph, circle pitting in your own living room and growling along to the songs like an enraged gorilla!
Kaideka aren't the innovators of a new genre and you can clearly here elements of Lamb of God, Slipknot, Napalm Death and even KoRn in their music. False Idols and Pyrite Thrones is an album jammed full of classic metal tracks, that put most of their peers music to shame. When tracks like 'Seize the Day', 'Pride' and 'The Soldier and the Poet' smash through your speakers, you can't help but instantaneously throw down to the killer beat downs and harsh vocals that this album is heavily laden with.
There are also hints of punk music on False Idols and Pyrite Thrones and this adds to the heaviness and anarchy of this album. Tracks like 'Drowning' and 'Grave of the Patriots' add that fast paced, charging approach to the music and the vocals, jabbering, aggressively on make this music all the more heavier. But, best of all is the track 'Let's Blame Dahmer' which has the most impressive intro to a metal song, you will ever hear. You can imagine it now. A venue chocked full of people, screaming at the top of their head to the Barney Greenway styled vocals that are blurring out over the PA system.
There isn't one dull moment on this album, and you can quite clearly hear that each of these songs was written with the purpose to be played live. Kaideka have made an album, that fans can enjoy both on album and live. It's musically stimulating and catches the audience's attention from the word go. There are so many possible singles on False Idols and Pyrite Thrones and Kaideka have made this an album that can be played over and over again without getting monotonous or boring. There is so much going on, you can't take it all in from one listen, and that's what is so good about this record, the fact you have to listen to it again and again to hear every little musical flourish.
Kaideka need to hurry up and make another album, for after the release of the stunning album that is False Idols and Pyrite Thrones, they have left many a fan stunned by the musical brilliance. Well done guys on releasing one of the most killer albums of 2011! [8/10]


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