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County and landowners still paying for failed 2007 James Road mega-mall boondoggle @ LCC 2015-06-22



Back again: the James Road subsidy for a failed mega-mall that we just keep on paying,
eight years later!

Five companies showed up at the May 27th pre-bid meeting, but only one bid for
$71,192 was received from Rountree Construction for the
Commercial Driveway for Raceway on James Road,
said County Engineer Mike Fletcher at the

22 June 2015 Lowndes County Work Session.
The Commission
at their 23 June 2015 Regular Session
approved that yet another fix-up payment caused by
the county’s

2009 widening of James Road “from a two-lane local road with ditches to a five-lane road with curb and gutter” for the never-happened

Market Street mall and subdivision project.
And local elected officials say bus systems need subsidies?
Every road and bridge is a subsidy for private developers.
And James Road is a subsidy we just keep on paying year after year.

The county spent SPLOST VI funds and $587,000 in GDOT funds on this subsidy
for private developers,

some of them from Tampa,
while requiring local James Road property owners to Continue reading →

Can Georgia ban Construction Work in Progress (CWIP)?

Georgia Power

charges its customers
Construction Work in Progress (CWIP) for the nuclear plants
it is constructing at Plant Vogtle on the Savannah River.
This while
claiming a solar energy commodity market would raise rates for its customers.
If nuclear is so great, why does it need to be pre-funded by customers?
Can Georgia ban CWIP?
Other states have.

This interesting

survey by Wisconsin, courtesy of



National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC),
says Illinois, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Oregon
ban CWIP (except in certain cases for some of those states)
and North Carolina and Washington in practice do not use it.

Appended below is the first question from the survey and the answers.
The entire survey is
on the LAKE website.

Here’s
who in the Georgia state government
you can contact about CWIP.

-jsq


CURRENT RETURN ON CWIP

VERSUS AFUDC [Allowance for Funds Used During Construction]

REGULATORY SURVEY RESULTS

March 2006

The Wisconsin
Commission is relooking at its current practice for allowing a
current return on construction work in progress (CWIP). We
would appreciate it if you or someone else from your agency could
respond to the following questions.

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