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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL RACES From page 1A Former Congressman Mac Collins had a solid victory over James Neal Harris and will face incumbent Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, for the Bth District House of Representatives seat in Washington. In Houston County, 4583 voters picked Collins over 1118 voting for James Neal Harris. In some key races, Houston Countians went against the state or district trends. FEES From page 1A Gilmour, “the park space formula could not be greater than other areas of service, or you would have to upgrade the rest of the city.” Because the impact fees cannot be levied unless they are part of the city’s com prehensive plan, the step has been taken to ensure the option is included in the plan. The next steps will be to accept proposals from con PLAN From page 1A new kitchen will be on the first floor. The second floor of the tower, which will connect with the second floor of the hospital and women’s cen ter, will have 16 beds. The third floor will have 20 beds, the fourth will have 12 step down beds and 36 medical/ surgical beds. If the certificate of need is approved it will add 20 beds to the hospital, explained Christie. “We’re making the space more useable for taking care of a lot of needs at the hos pital with the patient load we’re seeing today,” he said. “There will be more working space, wider doors and we’ll get nursing care more close to patients.” Christie said that is cur NO From page 1A The second scale will be pur chased from Albany Scale at $143,000 and the canopy will be purchased from Meco of Macon for $28,421. The purchases come out of the landfill enterprise fund, paid for by users, not from prop erty taxes. In other business, the commissioners approved: ■ Transmitting the com munity assessment and community participation program portions of he 20- year comprehensive plan update to the Middle Georgia Regional Development Center and then to the Georgia Department of Community Affairs for offi cial review. Warner Robins took similar action Monday to send its portion of the comprehensive plan to the Middle Georgia RDC. Get The Scoop On Local News & Sports hhjnews.com Check It Out & Email Us Your Feedback! C'fK’TQViSel rs IO Kl ic IOS I\QTS VII ] July 20th - July 29th \&% Off ill Merchandise Ice Cream Cene w/every Purchase FINAL DAY OF BUSINESS - July 29th 8078 Carroll St. * Perm. GA 31069 Reed - Cagle While Casey Cagle beat Ralph Reed handily at the state level in the battle for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, Houston County Republicans gave Reed 3304 votes over 2768 for Cagle. Cagle will face either Jim Martin or Glen Hecht, depending on which of the Democratic candidates wins the run-off election set for Aug. 8. Cox -Taylor In the Democratic Primary for Governor, Houston sultants and to have doc umentation prepared for council review. Langston Road Langston Rd continues to be an issue that brings out neighbors. Langston Road residents were out in full force opposing the further development of their coun try road. Representatives of The Knight Group, Inc. present ed a plan for the Langston Place subdivision that will bring 120 homes to the area and sprawl over 43.78 acres. rent in the conceptual design phase. “We’re meeting with department heads. It’s an ongoing process,” he said.” The Emergency Room and lobby will be expanded in the existing building into the space of the existing kitchen, Farrow said. Priorities for renovation to the existing building include the clinical lab, hospice suites, the wom en’s unit and staff offices, Farrow said. The Health Institute is $1.3 million of the Phase 1. Occupancy for that is expected in 10 months. When asked about the certificate of need, to be sent to the state, Houston Healthcare CEO Dr. Tony Alford said, “the state recog nizes the need for 12-20 new beds in this area. ” v t “We are also converting 16 current psychiatric beds to medical/surgical,” Alford said. “These are steps we are taking to alleviate some “It’s a well prepared doc ument,” Walker said. Jim Boswell did an outstanding job,” Walker said of the com mittee chairman. He also had praise for Engle and Jacob Cox who provided technical support from the county. ■ Appointed Houston Healthcare EMS Manager Dave Bourghelli to fill the unexpired term of Carla Weese on the Region V EMS Council. The term will expire June 30, 2008. Commission Chairman Ned Sanders said, “Bourghelli is well situated to do it and is willing to do SO. ■ Paying the bills for one week. It was only a week since the last commission meeting so the county only spent $916,699.78, of which Sanders noted “almost a third is from SPLOST (the special purpose local option sales tax). I’m happy to see the SPLOST moving, taking off and doing well.” 987-5211 County gave Secretary of State Cathy Cox 2176 votes over Mark Taylor’s 2017. Nichols-Sellier Houston County Republicans voting in the House District 136 race, gave Meg Nichols the lead (364 votes) over 288 for Tony Sellier, but Sellier got a solid victory in the final district wide tally, with 54.7 percent of the votes. He will now face Warner Robins busi nesswoman Beth Pererra, who was running unopposed in the Democratic Primary. Development would begin in March 2007 and continue into 2010. Several Langston Road residents complained that problems of water run-off, traffic, and a lack of infra structure already exist. “This is not going to make an improvement on prob lems that are already out there,” said Cynthia Ballard of 436 Langston Road. She said she has already spent thousands replacing her pool liner due to damage caused by current develop ment. of the problems we’ve had in the past, with long waits in the ER for beds.” The entrance is chang ing, added Christie, “we’ll be keeping the same curb cuts, but need to combine two into one with a decel (deceleration) lane,” but he also noted that will depend on the requirements from the state Department of Transportation on Watson Boulevard. There also will be some additional parking where the church used to be, Farrow said. Subscribe today Call 987-1823 Go Back To School In Style! 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