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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Weekend Edition-December 23-24, 2022 7A
JOHN AMIS I Associated Press
State Sen. Dean Burke will step down from his senate seat
Dec. 31 to become the chief medical officer of Georgia’s
Department of Community Health.
Georgia senator quits for state
job; prison chief steps down
ATLANTA — A south
Georgia state senator is
leaving his elected office
for a state job while Geor
gia’s prison chief is step
ping down.
State Sen. Dean Burke, a
Bainbridge Republican will
step down from his Sen
ate seat effective Dec. 31
to become the chief medi
cal officer of Georgia’s
Department of Community
Health, Gov. Brian Kemp
announced Thursday.
Kemp said a special
Republican primary to fill
Burke’s Senate District 11
seat will take place Jan. 31.
Burke, a medical doctor,
won a special election to the
Senate in 2013. The south
Georgia district includes
Seminole, Decatur, Grady,
Thomas, Brooks, Colquitt
and Cook counties.
Corrections Commis
sioner Tim Ward, who leads
a state prison system that’s
under federal investiga
tion for violent conditions,
will leave his post and join
the state Board of Par
don and Paroles. He will
replace Brian Owens, who
is retiring, on Jan. 1. Owens
himself was corrections
commissioner before Gov.
Nathan Deal appointed him
to the parole board in 2015.
Kemp named Juvenile
Justice Commissioner
Tyrone Oliver as incoming
corrections commissioner
beginning Jan. 1. Depart
ment of Juvenile Justice
Assistant Commissioner
and Chief of Staff Shawanda
Reynolds-Cobb will become
interim commissioner.
Kemp also said state
Department of Transpor
tation Planning Director
Jannine Miller will add the
role of executive director
of the State Road & Tollway
Authority, effective Jan. 16.
Kemp said he is also recom
mending Miller to be the
executive director of the
Georgia Regional Trans
portation Authority and
the Atlanta-Region Tran
sit Link Authority, giving
Miller purview over transit,
toll road and road projects.
Burke told The Moultrie
Observer that the Depart
ment of Community Health
approached him about the
position after Kemp won
re-election in November.
He noted he has led a sub
committee that oversees
the department’s budget
and said he’s focused on
rural healthcare, efforts
to reduce deaths among
new mothers, and efforts
to study healthcare
payments.
Associated Press
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Local Option Sales Tax
Original Current Expenditures
Estimated Estimated Prior to
Project Cost Cost FYE 2022 FYE 2022 Total
Jackson County (2009)
Roads, streets and bridges
Parks & Recreation
563,345
563,345
658,756
658,756
658,724
627,691
31,065
658,724
658,756
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Parks & Recreation
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60,660
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