{"id":2224,"date":"2011-04-06T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/t-splost-explained-corey-hull-vlmpo-at-lcdp.html"},"modified":"2011-04-06T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T14:23:00","slug":"t-splost-explained-corey-hull-vlmpo-at-lcdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/t-splost-explained-corey-hull-vlmpo-at-lcdp.html","title":{"rendered":"T-SPLOST Explained &mdash;Corey Hull of VLMPO at LCDP (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T-SPLOST is a ten-year one-cent sales tax,<br \/>\norganized in twelve regional taxing districts,<br \/>\nthrough committees composed of county chairs and city mayors,<br \/>\nplus an executive committee with some of them plus 3 people from the<br \/>\nlegislature, which funnels transportation funding requests to GDOT,<br \/>\nwhich picks, and then sends to a referendum in 2012.<br \/>\nGot all that?<br \/>\nNo?<br \/>\nWell, Corey explains it much better than I do.<\/p>\n<p>\nYou&#8217;ve heard Corey Hull of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Metropolitan Planning Organization (VLMPO)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/corey-hull-explains-tsplost-to-vlcia.html\"><br \/>\ngive a brief version of T-SPLOST at VLCIA.<\/a><br \/>\nHere he talks at greater length at the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgrc.us\/transportation\/HB277TIA_2010.htm\"><br \/>\nLowndes County Democratic Party:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5594778943\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5069\/5594778943_afa10a606a_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe Georgia legislature passed what was then known as House bill 277<br \/>\ncalled<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgrc.us\/transportation\/HB277TIA_2010.htm\"><br \/>\nTransportation Investment Act of 2010<\/a>&#8230;.<br \/>\nIt created or proposed a one percent sales tax for transportation purposes<br \/>\nthroughout the state of Georgia.<br \/>\nIt creates<br \/>\ntwelve special transportation taxing districts<br \/>\nthat are based on the boundaries of the regional commissions.<br \/>\nAnd that is where the connection with the regional commission stops.<br \/>\nThey are not the same body&#8230;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So who are these regional commissions?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgrc.us\/region.htm\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.sgrc.us\/images\/region.gif\"><\/a><br \/>\nChairman Paulk and Mayor Fretti are our representatives from Lowndes County.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a mayor and the county commission chair from each county in the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt also created an executive committee.<br \/>\nThe executive committee is five persons plus two members<br \/>\nfrom the House transportation committee and one member from the Senate<br \/>\ntransportation committee.<br \/>\nIn our case there are five county chairmen serving on that,<br \/>\nand Ashley is on that for Lowndes County.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Roundtable has elected<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofnashvillega.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=13&#038;Itemid=27\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"146\" height=\"220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cityofnashvillega.net\/images\/stories\/mayor%20harper%2009.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nMayor Travis Parker of Nashville as Chairman,<br \/>\nand he is the non-voting chairman of the Executive Committee as well.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The state transportation budget is<br \/>\n$2 billion dollars, of which $1.1 billion is federal funding,<br \/>\nmostly from gas tax.<br \/>\nThe state has to match the federal funding, and is getting closer to not doing that.<br \/>\nThis sales tax was the legislature&#8217;s way of handling that.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SG5ldBN9M7o\"><br \/>\nthe video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SG5ldBN9M7o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nCorey Hull of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Metropolitan Planning Organization (VLMPO)<br \/>\nexplains T-SPLOST (HB 277) Transportation Investment Act of 2010<br \/>\nat the monthly meeting of the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP),<br \/>\nGretchen Quarterman (Chair),<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.<br \/>\nVideo by John S. Quarterman for LAKE,<br \/>\nthe Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nStay tuned; there&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T-SPLOST is a ten-year one-cent sales tax, organized in twelve regional taxing districts, through committees composed of county chairs and city mayors, plus an executive committee with some of them plus 3 people from the legislature, which funnels transportation funding requests to GDOT, which picks, and then sends to a referendum in 2012. 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