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Man recovering
from shooting;
suspected car
thieves caught;
man gets 40 years.
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Volume 138, Number 16
FRONT PORCH
"Where neighbors meet"
HHJ history
50 years ago:
efforts, according to a Houston
Home Journal report, are being
made to organize an amateur
baseball team in Perry to com
pete in a six or eight-team league.
Reportedly several businesses
have expressed an interest to foot
the bill for expenses.
Also, the 15-year-old teen
charged with the murder of
a 16-year-old (as written up in
Wednesday's Houston Home
Journal) is freed on a $2,500
bond. Some additional details also
become available. Reportedly the
15-year-old from Houston County
shoots the 16-year-old from
Montezuma after he - the latter
- takes away a gun from one
of other Houston County youths
(there were two others from
Houston County and six total from
Macon County) travelling with the
15-year-old.
30 years ago:
Vandals and thieves reportedly
continue to “wage campaigns of
waste and destruction” on Houston
Cdunty schools. The latest victim
as of this issue is Perry High
School, which is broken into with
three electric typwriters valued at
$1,222 stolen. This was reportedly
the 48th incident of vandalism in
the schools but the article doesn’t
specify over what period of time.
Also, a news story regarding
the same subject cannot be found,
but an unsigned editorial (call
ing it disturbing, which was an
understatement) by the newspa
per references this: ‘‘news that a
nuclear-armed B-52 bomber had
been vandalized last week ...”
10 years ago:
The Board of Education
announces that Charles Allen
Holloway from Texas has been
selected the new superintendent
of schools. Also, voters accept -
87 percent vote “yes" - to approve
a 1 percent special use sales tax.
The money was to go toward two
projects, one of them being the
new courthouse.
- Compiled by Don Moncrief
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A group of 122 Westfield Youth Sports participants and their families enjoyed Westfield Night Out at a recent Mercer University basketball game.
Wearing their “Westfield green”, the group cheered for the Mercer Bears and were introduced over the public address system.
Standing room only for impact fee discussion
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
If Perry needs new fire
stations and parks to serve
a growing population, as
more and more subdivision
are built, who should bear
the cost?
Those who support impact
fees believe that since the
impact comes from new
construction, builders and
developers should pay the
cost through a fee on each
new structure.
Those who are doing
the building and develop
ing strongly disagree, and
their representatives on the
city’s Impact Fee Advisory
Committee have already
won one round with a vote
not to have impact fees at
all. Local realtors, develop
ers, builders and those in
the building supply indus
tries were out in force last
Tuesday evening, packing
meeting room for the City
Council work session and
meeting, and were repre
sented by a speaker from
the Middle Georgia Board
County commissioners address impact fees, more at Eggs, Issues
By DON MONCRIEF
Journal Managing Editor
While the City of Perry debates
whether or not it will have impact
fees, the county’s position is: Not
now.
“It’s a controversial subject,”
said Houston County Commission
Chairman Ned Sanders. “Perry has
just started looking at it. Jones
County has looked at it. We’ve
looked at it. In fact, I carry a folder
on it in my office.
“(But), a definite date for imple
mentation of impact fees? There is
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of Realtors and the Warner
Robins Homebuilders
Association.
However, their time to
speak out in detail has
yet to come. Impact fees,
according to Mayor Jim
Worrall, will be the sub
ject of more than one public
hearing before there is any
final vote, and the city is a
long way from putting them
into effect at this point.
The big issue for the
city council is to keep up
with the city’s need for fire
protection, and as the city
grows geographically with
only one fire station, fire
insurance rates will be high
for those in the developing
areas.
Fire Chief Joel Gray said
the most pressing need is for
a firehouse with apparatus
in the Matt Arthur School
area. This would actually
be a multi-purpose facil
ity for both fire and police
protection, and designed in
such a way that bays could
be added to house not just
fire trucks but also possibly
an ambulance if the county
none. There is not a definite date
becaue there is not a consolidation
of feelings at this point and time
that we need impact fees.”
Sanders added the caveat that
if the county were to get a large
deveopment, that might change.
“Let me talk generalities,” he
said. “If we get a large development
in the neighborhood of 5, 10, 15 or
20,000 homes, which we could get
depending on circumstances, then
we would take a look very hard at
the implementation of Impact Fees.
If and when we get to that, we will
address it. (But) as of right now
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Realtors Donny Free and Scott Free confer with City Councilman Joe Kusar during a
break in Tuesday night’s Perry City Council meeting. Scott Free spoke in opposition
to impact fees on new development, which the city is considering.
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The city is anticipating
the future to need to build
there is no specific need for it.”
Sanders made his comment(s)
during the Eggs & Issues break
fast held Thursday at the Museum
of Aviation and hosted by the
Wamr Robins Area Chamber of
Commerce.
Prior to addressing the attendees
on Impact Fees - that coming dur
ing the question and answer ses
sion - he gave a slideshow detailing
things such as the county’s dollars
($95,905,786) and how they’re bro
ken down (i.e. $47,520,363 is in the
general fund, $3,028,550 is in capi
tal investments, et cetera). He also
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fire stations in several
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talked about millage rates, point
ing out the fact Houston County at
22.17 has the lowest among Bibb
(32.72), Twiggs (36.43) and six or
so others, as well as gave an update
on the county’s roads/construction
projects (keeping that portion of
his talk inside a minute - although
he said he could talk about it “all
day” - to win a “friendly” bet
among the other commissioners in
attendance.
The other commissioners in kind
took their turn briefing the audi
ence on a range of other topics
See EGGS, page SA
Contributed
Journal/Charlotte Perkins