{"id":1168,"date":"2012-01-20T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T16:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/t-splost-discretionary-projects-winter-2012-sgrc-newsletter.html"},"modified":"2012-01-20T11:04:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T16:04:34","slug":"t-splost-discretionary-projects-winter-2012-sgrc-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/t-splost-discretionary-projects-winter-2012-sgrc-newsletter.html","title":{"rendered":"T-SPLOST discretionary projects &mdash;Winter 2012 SGRC Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Received from Corey Hull 9 January 2012:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPlease find attached the \u201cTransportation in the Region\u201d newsletter for<br \/>\nthe Southern Georgia Regional Commission and the Valdosta-Lowndes<br \/>\nMetropolitan Planning Organization. For more information please visit<br \/>\nour website at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgrc.us\/transportation\"><br \/>\nwww.sgrc.us\/transportation<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put a copy on the LAKE website<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/govt\/sgrc\/newsletters\/WinterFY12Newsletter\/\"><br \/>\nhere.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s the lead story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<H3><br \/>\nLocal Discretionary Project Lists for TIA<br \/>\n<\/H3><br \/>\nOn October 10, 2011 the Southern Georgia Regional Transportation<br \/>\nRoundtable approved a regional transportation project list that contains<br \/>\n75% of the funds this region would receive if a transportation sales and<br \/>\nuse tax is approved by the voters on July 31, 2012. The tax is estimated<br \/>\nto generate $670,985,361 total; $503,239,020 of which is reserved for<br \/>\nthe 75% regional projects list.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe remaining 25% of the funds ($167,746,439) are allocated to<br \/>\nlocal governments by formula (based on population and road centerline<br \/>\nmiles). While these funds are to be spent at the discretion of each local<br \/>\ngovernment on transportation related projects, it is recommended that<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6731042171\/in\/photostream\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7149\/6731042171_77d641255d_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nyour local government begin to consider how these funds might be spent<br \/>\nover the next 10 years. By identifying these projects now, your local<br \/>\nvoters will be able to know how all of the funds from this proposed<br \/>\nsales and use tax will be spent in their local community.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn order to have a central source for<br \/>\ninformation about the proposed sales tax,<br \/>\nwe are asking local governments to submit<br \/>\ntheir project lists for the 25% discretionary<br \/>\nfunding by March 31, 2012 to the following<br \/>\naddress: SGRC; ATTN: Corey Hull; 327 W<br \/>\nSavannah Ave.; Valdosta, GA 31602; or<br \/>\nby email at chull@sgrc.us.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/09\/httplaketypepadcomon-the-lake-front20110912m-to-widen-us-41-n-is-more-than-75m-for-a-bus-systemhtml.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6189\/6132913157_04b8c90899_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nIt will be interesting to see what projects local governments submit.<br \/>\nMaybe you&#8217;d like to suggest something to them.<\/p>\n<p>\nHm, looks like there&#8217;s plenty of discretionary funds for a<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/09\/httplaketypepadcomon-the-lake-front20110912m-to-widen-us-41-n-is-more-than-75m-for-a-bus-systemhtml.html\">bus system<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/11\/public-transportation-recommended-by-industrial-authoritys-community-assessment.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6218\/6310104328_498892c6bd_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nsuch as is recommended by<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/11\/public-transportation-recommended-by-industrial-authoritys-community-assessment.html\"><br \/>\nthe Industrial Authority&#8217;s Community Assessment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Received from Corey Hull 9 January 2012: Please find attached the \u201cTransportation in the Region\u201d 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&#8217;ve put a copy on the LAKE website here. Here&#8217;s the lead story: Local Discretionary Project Lists for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,553,1177,449,178],"tags":[2177,2126,8778,8822,8767,8749],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-sgrc","category-t-splost","category-transportation","category-vlcia","tag-bus","tag-public-transportation","tag-sgrc","tag-t-splost","tag-transportation","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}