Received from Corey Hull 9 January 2012:

Please find attached the “Transportation in the Region” newsletter for
the Southern Georgia Regional Commission and the Valdosta-Lowndes
Metropolitan Planning Organization. For more information please visit
our website at

www.sgrc.us/transportation.

I’ve put a copy on the LAKE website

here.

Here’s the lead story:

Local Discretionary Project Lists for TIA

On October 10, 2011 the Southern Georgia Regional Transportation
Roundtable approved a regional transportation project list that contains
75% of the funds this region would receive if a transportation sales and
use tax is approved by the voters on July 31, 2012. The tax is estimated
to generate $670,985,361 total; $503,239,020 of which is reserved for
the 75% regional projects list.

The remaining 25% of the funds ($167,746,439) are allocated to
local governments by formula (based on population and road centerline
miles). While these funds are to be spent at the discretion of each local
government on transportation related projects, it is recommended that


your local government begin to consider how these funds might be spent
over the next 10 years. By identifying these projects now, your local
voters will be able to know how all of the funds from this proposed
sales and use tax will be spent in their local community.

In order to have a central source for
information about the proposed sales tax,
we are asking local governments to submit
their project lists for the 25% discretionary
funding by March 31, 2012 to the following
address: SGRC; ATTN: Corey Hull; 327 W
Savannah Ave.; Valdosta, GA 31602; or
by email at chull@sgrc.us.

It will be interesting to see what projects local governments submit.
Maybe you’d like to suggest something to them.

Hm, looks like there’s plenty of discretionary funds for a
bus system


such as is recommended by

the Industrial Authority’s Community Assessment.

-jsq