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Board approves deal
with 1888 and GSDA
BY RAY LIGHTNER
STAFF WRITER
[email protected]
The Griffin Board of Commis­
sioners approved a memorandum of
understanding with the Griffin-Spald­
ing County Development Author­
ity, 1888 Mills and the city, related in
part to the water and sewer system
upgrades the city is providing.
The Development Authority ,vill be
issuing up to $15.75 million in reve­
nue bonds for the project, the city will
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waive the following fees and changes
for the project, including permitting
and building fees including its sewer
capacity recovery fee charged for ini­
tial hookup of a wastewater system to
former NACOM facility and the fee for
a water meter, however, the city will
impose a stormwater runoff fee, as the
city has no provision to waive the fee.
The city is also applying for a
$500,000 employment incentive pro­
gram to cover the sewer and water
improvements, with the Development
Authority agreeing to pay the $10,000
application fee for the grant.
The agreement also provides 1888
Mills with 15 years of ad velorem
tax brenks (city. county. state and
schools) related to the site and build­
ing improvements, starting at 100
percent the first year with the breaks
decreasing each subsequent year
reaching 6.2 percent in year 15 before
it falls off completely in year 16.
SEE DEAL/PAGE A2
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Woman
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domestic
dispute
FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Griffin Police Department
(GPD) responded to a residence on
English Street Monday at about 12:15
p.m. in reference to a domestic dis­
pute.
When police officers arrived at the
scene,
they made ....contact
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shutdown is only a trig­
ger event if there are
sufficent number of
FROM THE FRONT PAGE
terminations or layoffs
exceeding 6 months.
There is a similar
Mass layoff is
tax break on equip- defined as a reduction
ment (city, county and in workforce, which is
state, not schools) for not the result of a plant
10 years, decreasing by closing, and second
10 percent each year, results in an employ­
starting at 100 percent ment loss during any
discount in the first 30-day period of at ~
year and going to 10 least a third of active
percent in
employees
year 10 before The agreement or at least 30
fall i ng off indudesa
employees,
completely in community
both exclud­
year 11 when
ing part-time
the e qui p ­ jobs goal of 35
employees.
ment will no in years 2015 to
The
Ion g e r b e 2017, and 103
cit y a Iso
a p pro ve d
vested by the in 2018and
Development
separate conAuthority.
subsequent
tracts with
The agree­ years.
outside ven­
ment includes
dors for parts
a community
and work on
jobs goal of 35 in years the project. At Tues­
2015 to 2017, and 103 day's meeting, the city
in 2018 and subsequent approved the folllowing
years. A community bids:
.. $78,835 from
investment goal is also
included, beginning a Crawford Grading &
$5 million in 2015, $9 Pipeline, Inc .. for the
million in 2016, $13 mil- boring of Georgia High­
lion in 2017, and $15.75 way 362 for pipeline for
million in 2018, 2018 the project; and
.. $29,585.45 from
and subsequent years
so long as the project Xylem Water Solutions
is subject to ad velorem USA, Inc., to purchase
tax payment percent- the Flygt pumps and
age of less than 100 control panel for Lift
percent.
Station No.8.
There are "trigger
Public Works Direc­
events" in' the memo- tor Brant Keller said
randurn of understand- boring work was out- j
ing that remove the tax side of the EIP grant, ~
breaks including the and was to replace a
expiration or termina- couple of worn out
tion of the bond lease manholes. Keller said :
on the equipment, a the city was purchasing;
plant closing, tempo- the Flygt pumps to save ~
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DEAL
~ded in death
larents, Oscar
Carson and
lates Carson, his
cqueline Evans
. He was retired
heels and Brakes
lember of Brooks
Church.
ivors include
~r and son-in-law
ld Dale Nichols;
lildren Dawn
erick Rice and
. Yvonne; great
ilildren, Austin and
:h Beaver; brother,
'son; several
lnd nephews, and
lved cat, Bonnie.
ation for Mr.
Carson will
aturday, May
1 from 12:00
ltil2:00pm
ler-Westbury
I Home.
ng the visitation
al service will be
ted in the Chapel
lercWestbury
Funeral Home. Reverend
Ed Lynch and Reverend
Jack Landham will
officiate. Interment
will follow in Brooks
Memorial Gardens. In
lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to The
Gideons International,
P.O. Box 842, Griffin, GA
30224 in memory of Mr.
Carson.
Conner-Westbury
Funeral Home, 1891 W
McIntosh Rd, Griffin is in
charge of arrangements.
DEATH NOTICES
Mrs. Eunice L. Bates,
age 84 of Griffin, passed
away on Monday, May
12,2014 at her residence.
Funeral services
will be conducted on
Friday, May 16, 2014
at 2:00pm in the chapel
of Conner-Westbury
Funeral Home. Reverend
David Riley will officiate.
Conner-Westbury
Funeral Home, 1891
West McIntosh Road,
Griffin, GA is in charge
of arrangements. www.
conner-westbury
funeralhome.com
Mr. Larry Stephen
Ice, age 66 of Griffin,
passed away on Tuesday,
May 13, 2014 at Spalding
Regional Hospital.
Visitation for Mr. Larry
Stephen Ice will be on
Friday, May 16, 2014 from
6:00pm until 8:00pm at
Conner-Westbu, . Funeral
Home. Funeral services
will be conducted on
Saturday, May 17, 2014 at
!0:00am in the Chapel of
Conner-Westbury Funeral
Home. Reverend Bennie
Prince will officiate.
Conner-Westbury
Funeral Home, 1891 W
McIntosh Rd, Griffin is in
charge of arrangements.
www.conner-westbury
funeralhome.com
s to Inove forward on roads
Anthony Foxx has said the feder­ tunity to keep Georgia moving
al Highway Trust Fund is expect­ forward through vital summer
ed to run dry by late August and construction months, supports
that transportation aid to states jobs for Georgians and enhances
would be delayed without con­ the long-term commitment to our
gressional action. Last month, the growing transportation system,"
Obama administration sent Con­ said state Transportation Commis­
sioner Keith Golden.
gress a four-year, $302
The governor's office
billion transportation On Thursday, a
plan.
said
the interchange
Senate panel
project, estimated to
On Thursday, a Sen­ approved a bill
ate panel approved
cost $970 million, is on
a bill that would keep that would keep track for environmen­
transportation funding transportation
tal approval in 2015
at current levels plus funding at
and the state needs to
inflation. The bill, how­ cUrrent levels
be ready to begin con­
ever, doesn't appear
struction.
to close a $100 billion plus inflation.
"Improvements to
gap between project
the interchange will
costs and projected revenue from provide important economic and
federal fuel taxes and other fees quality of life benefits and will
that are the source of the federal expand Georgia's role as a major
Highway Trust Fund. The Senate logistics hub for global com­
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closing is
defined as any 30-day
period where there is
an employment loss of
more than 70 percent
of the full-time employees. The temporary
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"We've got to have j
1888 Mills up and
running by Sept. 15,"
Keller told the city
commissioners.