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undergraduate program at
Robins to make room for its
growing graduate program.
One very specific graduate
program offered is the mas
ter of science degree in
administration/logistics
management.
Easterly said since logis
tics is the main mission of
the base, this program was
instituted.
“It is the most unique pro-
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Macon and when the distrib
utor doesn’t have a part
available there is a SSO sur
charge to receive the parts
from Blue Bird’s Fort Valley
location.
“Whether the distributor
receives the parts or not,
we’ve tried to work with
Blue Bird, and when it came
down to it we’ve not a prob
lem with Atlanta
Freightliner’s Thomas Built
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philosophy for a state that
wants to encourage jobs and
investment, he said.
One beneficiary of the
change, he said, could be
Coca-Cola, which is building
a new SIOO million “World
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was a need for a specialized
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Easterly explained how
this program and all others
are designed with the soldier
in mind.
“If students must return
to active duty, we work with
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“We uniquely tailor our-
buses,” Thublin said.
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nance facility maintains an
inventory of parts, and with
the added surcharge we
couldn’t reject the low bid.
The school board upheld
state law adverse to local
opinion. In the future, Blue
Bird should make sure they
are the low bidder.”
The comptroller said in
the past the board has split
a bid when both companies’
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But smaller companies,
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“That’s who I really want
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Easterly noted that
GC&SU is the only state
university on Robins Air
Force Base.
“The program offered
here is a good deal for stu
dents, on base and in the
bids were similar.
School board Vice
Chairman Griff Clements
made a motion that Atlanta
Freightliner be awarded the
bid for a total of 15 school
buses at a cost of
$1,007,552. Board member
Tom Walmer seconded the
motion. The motion carried,
with all voting in favor
except for one abstention.
Board member Jim
Boswell abstained with a
conflict of interest due to a
$972.3 million, O’Neal said,
but he contended the state’s
finances won’t take a hit.
The loss would be offset in
part by payroll growth,
which the state auditor pro
jected at $696 million over
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Community,” he said.
“Teachers travel from our
Milledgeville campus and
students receive the same
experience as those in
Milledgeville.”
Any given semester, about
16 to 26 classes are offered
at the base center.
Master’s level classes can
be taken toward degrees in
business administration,
public administration,
10-year work history at Blue
Bird Corporation.
Chairman Pamela
Greenway accepted and
finalized the motion, and
about 25 employees from
Blue Bird abruptly left the
meeting.
Mike McCurdy, human
resources manager at Blue
Bird Corporation, said he
feels it was “hearsay” that
buses were not delivered to
Houston County.
“Many of our employees
In addition, O’Neal said
another provision of the law
will produce $504.7 million
for the state over the 10-
year period by closing a
loophole which allows corpo
rations to shift income out
of state to avoid state taxes.
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administration/logistics
management and manage
ment information systems.
“Over the years the cur
rent mix of programs have
evolved and have remained
substantially the same since
the mid 1980 s,” Easterly
said.
Robins AFB allows civil
ians who are attending aca
demic classes to come on
base under a restrictive pol
icy only during class times.
All students attending class-
not only spend their tax dol
lars in Houston County, but
support through many other
areas as well,” McCurdy
said. “We are disappointed,
but will continue to help the
school system when they
call. We will continue to con
duct ourselves as business
professionals.”
Thublin said he, Copa and
Scott pored over the fea
tures on each bus point by
point and compared them
against each other, but the
At the end of 10 years, he
said, the legislation poten
tially could bring in $250
million more than the state
otherwise would have
raised.
The 6 percent corporate
income tax in Georgia raised
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Georgia Historical Society
has been in contact with
him and wants to put a
marker up once the building
is completed. Worrall said
they want to arrange for the
governor to present the
marker.
Sanders said the original
dedication marker from the
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es must be U.S. citizens.
Easterly said Georgia
College and State University
is planning to launch a
media campaign to promote
the Robins campus and the
university’s Macon campus.
Admission deadlines for
any of the mentioned gradu
ate programs is Nov. 1 at the
earliest; the regular dead
line is April 1 and the dead
line for transfer students is
July 1.
cost of maintenance for Blue
Bird buses exceeded their
benefits, and the features
they offered did not add to
the overall safety of the
buses.
“We want to ensure the
safety of children, and based
on past history there was no
reason we should overturn
the low bid and award to
Blue Bird,” Thublin said.
“We’ve had excellent service
with Thomas (Atlanta
Freightliner). We”
$486.9 million last year,
accounting for about 3.2
percent of the state’s rev
enue. By contrast, individ
ual income tax collections
were $6.8 billion, represent
ing nearly 44 percent of the
state’s tax collections.
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