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Dr. Kendall Blanchard, seated left, of Georgia Southwestern University and Dr. Ivan
Allen of Middle Georgia Technical College sign an agreement promoting the trans
ferability of credit between institutions. Also shown are, back row from left: GSW
Professors Dr. Arvind Shah and Dr. Boris Peltsverger as they join MGTC instructors
Cindy Rumney and Felicia Everidge at the signing ceremony.
MGTC signs agreement with
Georgia Southwestern University
Special to the Journal
Middle Georgia Technical College in
Warner Robins and Georgia Southwestern
State University in Americus signed an
agreement recently to promote the trans
ferability of credits between the two
institutions in the areas of Computer
Information Systems and Information
Technology.
Dr. Kendall Blanchard of GSW and
Dr. Ivan Allen of MGTC sat down for
a formal signing ceremony at MGTC’s
Warner Robins campus Oct. 21, Dr. Boris
Peltsverger, dean and professor for the GSW
School of Computing and Mathematics,
and Dr. Arvind C. Shah, Computer Science
professor at GSW, joined Dr. Blanchard for
the signing.
“I believe that if we can work together
to help students accomplish goals, then
we should do that,” said Blanchard. “This
agreement between the University and
the College will benefit many students.
We look forward to a long and productive
SAVES
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As far as a savings exam
ple, he offered the fact the
city is currently in the pro
cess of changing out all the
meters. They’ve got about
13,000 meters he said they
need - based on compatibil
ity issues - a contractor to
change*out at an estimated
cost of $1.4 million. But,
there are also 4,900 meters
the city can change out on
its own, he said.
“If a contractor changed
them out (all of them) it’s
estimated it would cost us
$2,270,200,” he said. “If we
do it ‘in-house’ we will save
$549,000. In a week they
put in 1,000. We’ve already
saved $110,000.”
In the water department,
Walters gave the example
of the city changing out
its water meters. He said
that project, which began in
March, is about 98 percent
complete.
“When the company came
in, we started out with
24,386 meters,” he said.
“Our original loan from
EPD was $7.7 million. We’ve
ARREST
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and the victim’s cellular
phone. One
adult and
two juve
niles were
arrested
and charged
with armed
robbery as
a result.
The juve
niles’ names
MARSHALL
were withheld. The adult
was Robert Deion Marshall-
Gatson. He is 20 and of a
Crawford Street, Warner
Robins, address. Anyone
with additional informa
tion is asked to contact Det.
Meredith Edwards Vrith the
WRPDepartment Criminal
Investigations Division.
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spent about $4.4 and we’ll
probably spend another
$200,000. That’s a savings
of $3,570,000.”
The reason they have not
spent what was estimated,
he said, was again due to in
house work.
“What we’ve done in
house,” he said, “is install a
backflow preventer on meter
(ourselves). Doing that plus
instead of putting some kind
of riser, just going with a
straight pipe meter.”
“This (like everything else,
he added, later) was a whole
team effort. The whole team
of engineers, water support.
Everybody in the depart
ment got involve, started
asking questions: ‘Why are
we doing this?’ ‘How can we
save money?”’
In addition, Walters said
the city has saved on over
time costs. He said prior to
last month they had an aver
age of 500 overtime houses.
This past month it was 140.
Before they had a stand
by team consisting of a gas
man, customer service rep
resentative and four con
struction workers. They cut
out two of the construction
workers and then, he said,
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partnership.”
Cindy Rumney, program chair for
Computer Information Systems at MGTC,
and CIS instructor Felicia Everidge, along
with Dr. Gerri Sorrell, MGTC’s vice pres
ident for Academic Affairs, worked to
secure the agreement with GSW This
joint program will be open to MGTC
graduates of the Computer Information
Systems/Information Technology associ
ate degree programs and, will allow for
transferability of several MGTC courses
toward a Bachelor of Science degree in
Information Technology at GSW.
“We are excited about this new oppor
tunity with Georgia Southwestern,” said
Allen. “This agreement will be very ben
eficial to our students and is just one
example of the avenues we continually
pursue to give our students a chance to
reach their goals and become productive
citizens of our community.”
This agreement between the two insti
tutions will take effect January 2009.
had the gas person help the
construction workers (in
needed).
The result, he said, “was
we found out we didn’t need
four construction workers.
It’s just been things like
gas or water leaks (they’ve
had to respond to), little
things.”
Savings, savings and more
savings, and there may be
even more coming.
At question is $4,000,000,
$2,000,000 for water and
$2,000,000 for sewer, desig
nated toward SPLOST proj
ects on the north side of
town.
The council knows it’s
designated for the “north”
side of town. What they’re
trying to get is a clear cut
definition of what for.
Here’s how it might come
into play.
Walters said he budgeted
approximately $1,500,000
for projects on the north side
of town. What they want to
find out is if that SPLOST
money can be used for those
projects. If it can then he
can spend that money ver
sus his $1,500,000 and thus
keep the city’s money for
something else.
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as to what they’re going to
do with it.”
Others at the lunch were:
Keith Newton of Castaway
Self Storage; Larry
Warnock, Bry-Mel Homes
Inc.; Ken Gandy, G&W
Development; Gary Joyner,
Joyner Properties; Terry
Brown, Apollo Inc.; Charlie
McGlamry, U.S. Land; Jana
Reeves, the Galleria; Bob
Lewis, Bob Lewis Associates;
David Hodes, David Hodes
Custom Homes and Kanu
Dodia, Adinath Inc.
Three public hearings, two
on the same day, which also
has not set well for the busi
ness owners, are scheduled
regarding the tax increase.
They are slated to be held
in Centerville City Hall and
are: Monday at 10 a.m. and
2 p.m. and Nov. 10 at 6 p.m.
In the meantime,
McGlamry offered plenty of
food for thought.
“I think it’s going to stop
growth in Centerville,”
he said, “From our side it
will.”
“We can put a tremen
dous investment, be a part
of it (Centerville). But with
this we won’t do any (devel
opment). And we’ve prob
ably put more investment
into Centerville than prob
ably anybody else has. We’re
just totally shocked about
it. Nobody has come to us.
Nobody has discussed it.
“These are tough times. To
have this increase is totally
out of reason.”
McGlamry also pointed out
there was a stark contrast
between the way the council
was looking at it versus the
way they were looking at it.
“They’re talking about
$lO on a ($100,000) house,”
he said. “But what about a
$25,000,000 apartment com
plex?” Or, Eagle Springs, he
said, which he added is a
$22,000,000 investment and
that the owner had wanted
to expand. “But not now.”
“And how about the mall,
which is already struggling?
They’ve got a $50,000,000
(investment).” (Note: Reeves
said per her headquarters
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ment.) “Or look at restau
rants having a tough time in
the market. You put another
SB,OOO or SIO,OOO on them a
year, it’s tough.”
The increase was reported
by one councilman as being
necessary to counter a move
by state legislators, to take
up a revenue-cutting propos
al at their General Assembly
session that begins in
January.
He was quoted as saying
if they didn’t do it, it could
possibly affect services such
as fire or police.
The bottom line, McGlamry
said is: “They’re going to
cut out all building with
this. They’ll lose way more
they’re talking about get
ting. They’re cutting their
own throat and the people of
Centerville.”
Further, he and Suggs
(Suggs by the way said he
thought they would also be
retroactive) - and probably
seconded by the rest - added
another angle.
That being the fact they
said they could go right
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across the street - “liter
ally right across the street,”
McGlamry said - and build
the same thing in Warner
Robins, which he was quick
to point out had not raised
taxes in 12 years, for less.
“Instead they’ve decreased
them,” he said. The bottom
line, he said: “We’ve got a
choice. We’re going to take
the one that doesn’t have
an enormous tax increase
levied against it.”
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