That’s the way it sounds:
In a deliberate, unusual display of unity on the issue of transportation funding, the three heads of state government on Thursday stood together in backing a proposal to allow a region’s voters to raise a 1-cent sales tax for projects in that region.
“This approach allows those that are closest to the [...]
A bi-partisan group of House members unveiled a transportation proposal on Tuesday that would not require a tax increase:
The plan proposed Tuesday by Rep. Ed Setzler (R-Acworth) and others would not raise the state’s tax rate. But over time, as the economy recovered and state revenues grew, a certain amount of the increasing revenues [...]
House Democrats unveiled their transportation proposal yesterday and took some shots at Gov. Sonny Perdue:
“We watched along with other Georgians over the last seven years as the administration, the governor’s office, has failed to provide the necessary leadership to improve our transportation system in this state,” said Sen. Robert Brown (D-Macon). Rep. DuBose [...]
We were passed along some documents that provide a first look at Gov. Sonny Perdue’s regional transportation proposal.
We already know that Gov. Perdue will propose $3 billion in bonds over the course of 10 years, beginning in FY 2011 and that the first list of projects will be voted on statewide in 2010. Other details [...]
Gov. Sonny Perdue spoke about transportation funding and gave a nod to the T-SPLOST proposal as well as $300 million in bonds for projects in the FY 2011 budget:
[Perdue] said he hoped future governors and Legislatures would continue to pass $300 million per year in bond funding for transportation projects, for a total of $3 [...]
Senate leadership will not offer the T-SPLOST, a 1-cent regional transportation sales tax, as a constitutional amendment. Instead they will offer the regional tax through the normal legislative process:
Republican lawmakers think they may be able to find a way – through statute – to permit counties (read “metro Atlantaâ€) to band together to create tax [...]
Todd Long was unanimously confirmed this morning as the director of planning at GDOT by the House Transportation Committee:
Long made some of the same comments Wednesday that he made last week, assuring the committee that while the director of planning has a close relationship with the governor, he would weigh the governor’s priorities alongside others, [...]
The House Transportation Committee will vote today on the nomination of Todd Long as the director of planning. You should be able to tune in here.