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January 19, 1995
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OLYMPIC-SIZED
SPENDING
By Bick Pettys
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
ATLANTA
he cost of the 1996
Olympic Games in At
lanta for Georgia tax
payers continuestorise,
and a keylegislative budget-writ
er wants to know where it’s go
ing to end.
In budget recommendations he
has submitted to legislators over
the past two weeks, Gov. Zell
Miller has proposed a total $12.5
million for cost overruns in two
Olympics-related projects.
His latest budget plan, released
last week, also called for addi
tional spending of $lO million for
a massive public relations cam
paign to promote Georgia world
wide during the games.
All that is in addition to the
$156 million the state already
has committed to build housing
for the Olympic athletes, a park
ing garage and plaza near key
venues and improvements at
Stone Mountain Park.
“To paraphrase Everett
Dirksen, amillion here, a million
there pretty soon you're talking
about real money,” said Rep.
Terry Coleman, D-Eastman,
chairman of the House Appro
priations Committee.
“This is a once in a lifetime
opportunity, but weneed tobring
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things to the forefront and ap
proach this on a businesslike
basis,” he said. “We need to know
State Olympic spending at a glance
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Atlanta 1996
where we are going and we need
to have a legitimate business
plan.”
The major cost overrun is with
the construction of Olympic
dorms.
In: his mid-year budget adjust
ment covering spending for the
next six months, Miller recom
mended $5 million more for the
dorms, and in his plan for the
budget year beginning July 1, he
proposed yet another $3.5 mil
lion.
The dorms, which already have
PREVIOUS SPENDING:
H $106.5 million to build housing for
Olympic athletes at Georgia Tech
® $27.4 million for parking garage and
plaza at World Congress Center
® $22 million for improvements at Stone
Mountain Park
PROPOSED SPENDING:
| $8.5 million construction cost overruns
for athlete housing
M $4 million construction cost overruns for
parking garage
M $lO million for publicity campaign to
promote Georgia
@ $4 million for Georgia Tech data
network
® $1.6 million downpayment for housing
security forces
m $420,000 for tourist brochures
(Source: Associated Press)
cost $106.5 million, will be used
by Georgia Tech and Georgia
State University students after
the games. Student lodging fees
will repay the state’s investment
over 20 years.
The other overrun -- $4 million
- is at the parking deck and
plaza, which will link the World
Congress Center, the Georgia
Dome and the Omni. Already,
the project has cost the state
$27.4 million.
The proposed $lO million mar
keting expenditure would allow
Georgia to market itself nation
ally and internationally as never
before, said Randy Cardoza, com
missioner of the Department of
Industry, Trade and Tourism.
“We're looking at doing things
likein-flight videos... trade shows
around the world ... (and) having
a presence at airports around
the world,” he said. “This gives
us sufficient funds now to do TV
-- both nationally and interna
tionally.”
Miller also has proposed spend
ing $4 million to install a data
network in the Olympic dorms
for future use by students but for
use in 1996 by Olympic athletes
whowant toknow the latest event
results.
And he proposes to spend
$420,000 to print multi-lingual
brochures promoting Georgia
products and tourist sites.
A major upcoming cost for the
state is room, board and over
time pay for the hundreds -- pos
sibly thousands -- of state law
enforcement officers who will be
needed for Olympicsecurity. One
estimate is that the tab will be
S4O million or more.
Miller has not proposed money
for that yet, but he has recom
mended a $1.6 million down-pay
ment on housing for them.
McKinney Blasts
Coverdell over Voting
Law Repeal Plan
WASHINGTON
(AP) Georgia Rep. Cynthia
McKinney says Sen. Paul
Coverdell’s proposal to repeal
a law designed to extend vot
er registration in a step to
“slam shut the doors of de
mocracy” in the South,
The Republican senator was
elected in 1992 primarily be
cause of a lack of turnout by
people who are now being reg
istered to vote because of the
“motor voter” bill enacted in
1993, McKinney, D-Lithonia,
said Friday.
“In its first two days, motor
voter registered 1,850 Geor
gians to vote,” said a state
ment released by McKinney’s
office. “Now, Sen. Coverdell
is using cost as an excuse to
slam shut the doors of democ
racy that were so hard toopen
in the South.”
Coverdell’s office did not re
spond torequests for comment
Friday night.
.Coverdell introduced legis
lation this week to repeal the
motor voter law, which re
quires states to make voter
registration available at driv
er license facilities, welfare
offices and other public assis
tanee locations. '
Thirteen states have chal
lenged the law il court be
cause Congress did not pro
vide any money toimplement
its provisions. Coverdell’s leg
islation would repeal the law
unless Congress provided
Democrats give more
recognition to GOP
By Joan Kirchner
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
ATLANTA
Republicans likely will win
1 wo seats on a powerful policy
panel that oversees the oper
ation of the General Assem
bly and the fiapitol as Demo
crats grant the GOP more rec
ognition. !
The House voted Friday to
add the GOP leader in the
House and Senate to the Leg
islative Services Committee.
The measure now goes to the
Senate, where it is expected
to pass easily.
[n addition, the House Rules
Committee also agreed Fri
day to hold a hearing on nu
merous proposed changes to
House rules that would help
level the playing field for those
who lack power.
The two gestures are small
examples of how Democratic
leaders in the Legislature,
which includes 149 Demo
crats and 87 Republicans, are
extending the olive branch
this year to the growing num
ber of GOP members.
“You can’t deny that there’s
a few of them here now,”
House Speaker Tom Murphy
said of the Republicans this
week.
The Legislative Services
Committee has the power to
hire Capitol staffers, propose
changes in lawmakers’ sala
ries or expense {eimburse
ments, and authorize renova
tions or expansions to build
ings on Capitol Hill.
The panel’s membership in
cludes the speaker, lieuten
ant governor, speaker protem
of the House, president pro
tem of the Senate, majority
leaders from the House and
Senate, House clerk, Senate
secretary, plus several com
mittee chairmen from both
chambers. Republicans nev
er have been included.
“It is clear that the House
Hawaii-based Marines
headed for Somalia
CAMP SMITH, Hawaii
(AP) Hawaii-based Marines
are headed to Somalia to help
evacuate the remaining Unit
ed Nations personnel from the
strife-torn African nation.
Troops from Marine Forces
Pacific, headquartered at
Camp Smith, left Thursday
for Somalia, where they will
join with troops from Califor
nia and Okinawa for the secu
rity operation.
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money to pay state costs of
implementing it.
McKinney blasted Coverdell
in a statement timed to coin- ;
cide with this weekend’s ob- |
servance of the birthday of"
slain civil rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
She said King’s legacy is
threatened by the current leg
islative attack on unfunded
mandates like the motor voter
law and the Americans with
Disabilities Act, and the legal
assault on majority-black con
gressional districts created
under the Voting Rights Act.
“We will soon find ourselves
before the Supreme Court de
fending the Voting Rights Act
because a few people still fight
ing the Civil War want the
Georgia of the Old South to
rise again,” she said.
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Gop
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majority can no longer ignore
the growing number of Geor
gians who are represented
under the Gold Dome by Re
publicans,” said House Minor
ity Leader Bob Irvin, R-Atlan
ta.
In addition, a subcommittee
of the Rules Committee has
scheduled a hearing for Thurs
day on the more than 30 pro
posed rule changes submitted
on the opening day of the Leg
islature.
House Democrats tossed the
proposalsintocommittee rath
erthanallowingthe full House
to vote on them Monday.
The GOP’s most significant
proposed change would let a
inajority of the House vote to
bring a bill to the floor for a
vote if a committee fails to act
on the bill within 10 days. —
Currently, committee chair
men have the power to kill a ’
bill by not allowing a vote on
it.
While Republicans said they
doubt the Rules Committee
will pass any of their ideas,
they consider the hearing a
step in the right direction.
“They’relistening,” said Rep.
Mitch Kaye, R-Marietta.
“They may be small gestures,
but they’re extremely impor
tant.”
The 2,580 Marines will come
ashore to Somalia from Navy
ships, establish security for
departing U.N. forces and then
return to their ships, military
officials said.
The deployment is expected
to last until late March. The
units involved are an infantry
battalion, a helicopter/Harri
er squadron and a combat ser
vice support group.