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auGsteoerglgila The City of Austell has a friendly,
small-town atmosphere which
invites residential, commercial, and
industrial growth. Our residents enjoy
the benefits of low property taxes,
convenient services, and excellent
customer service while businesses
enjoy a low occupational business
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tax structure. Both residents and
businesses benefit from easy access to
Interstate 20 and Interstate 285 as well
as three major thoroughfares – C.H.
James Parkway, Veterans Memorial
Highway, and Austell-Powder Springs
Road.
friendly city, is growing with Cobb
Council Members:
Kirsten Anderson | Randy Green | Sandra Leverette
Ollie Clemons | Scott Thomas | Valerie Anderson
File // County officials cut the ribbon on the
$13.2 million event center at Jim R. Miller
Park in September 2018.
Cobb County Republican Women’s Club
Opens the Door to Good Government.
CCRWC has such speakers as, our United
States Senators; Attorney General ,
Chris Carr; and panel discussions on
topics as Education, etc.
The meetings are on the fourth Friday of every month at the
Atlanta/Marietta Hilton Conference Center at Powder Springs
Street from 11:30 to 1:00 and program begins at noon. We also
have Meet and Greets with our Republican women elected
officials. Come join us and get more information at CCRWC.org
which span about 2,480 miles. Though the notebook, which
lists which projects are eligible for funding by SPLOST, does
not specify which roads will be resurfaced with the dollars
collected over the six years, an estimated $64.2 million
is earmarked for such work, making it one of the biggest
focuses of the transportation department’s capital project
funds.
About $102.9 million in SPLOST funds is earmarked
for improvements to public services such as parks, senior
services and libraries.
Last fall, county officials cut the ribbon on a $13.2
million event center at Jim Miller Park, which was funded
by the SPLOST. The 41,000-square-foot facility includes
25,000 square feet of rentable exhibit and event space
that can be equally divided into three sections to cater
to a variety of functions, including parties, receptions,
corporate conferences, seminars, banquets and trade
shows.
SPLOST funds from both Cobb County and the city of
Acworth went to fund the $12 million, 43,000-square-foot
community center at the corner of Cherokee Street and
Logan Road in Logan Farm Park that opened in April. The
facility has two full-court basketball courts, two volleyball
courts and six pickleball courts, with other athletic
amenities including a raised mezzanine walking track
around the gym and a group exercise room.
The center also has a 350-person-capacity banquet room
dubbed the Tanyard
Creek Overlook, which
is available for rent for
events such as weddings
and private receptions
and offers in-house
catering.
This fall, Cobb County
and city governments
are expected to discuss
a possible renewal of the
countywide SPLOST.
In February, Boyce and county staff laid a timeline for a
November 2020 vote to renew the sales tax.
But Boyce is proposing a SPLOST continuation for another
five years instead of the current six-year length.
“We have a six-year SPLOST right now. We’re going to bring
in way more revenue than we anticipated, and it’s always
dangerous to leave that kind of revenue in front of politicians,”
Boyce said. “We need to identify exactly what the projects are,
no more and no less.”
By the end of the fall, the chairman added, “We’ll have some
pretty good idea of what those projects are, so we can take
them out and start doing our town halls on them,” going on to
acknowledge that selling a SPLOST to voters has become key
to Cobb’s and many other government bodies’ futures.
“Once you’re in,” he said, “it’s hard to get out.”
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