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Sfafe Sen. floss Tolleson, right, speaks with Harry Lucas and Pam Wingate at
Saturday’s meeting of the Houston County Republican Party.
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State Sen. Cecil Staton speaks at the
Houston County Republican Party meet
ing Saturday.
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can make voters aware of
the special referendum.
Comptroller Steve
Thublin that if this referen
dum were passed it would
bring in about sllO million
in revenue - possibly as
much as slls million.
Carpenter said the rev
enue is needed to keep up
with growth.
“There are serious prob
lems with school overflow,
and there needs to be con
tinuation of the SPLOST,”
he said.
The board presented a pri
oritized list of facility needs
that would be funded by the
proposed tax:
• Build Lake Joy Primary
School, next to existing
Lake Joy Elementary
School;
• Build two new middle
schools - one at the intersec
tion of Piney Grove and Old
Perry roads, and another on
Sandefur Road;
• Build a new elementary
school on Moojjy Road;
• Build a new high school
at Piney Grove and Old
Perry roads;
• Continuation of renova-
MURDER
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Rooks.
Rooks said that there
were four children in the
home at the time of the inci
dent. He said that they have
been released to the custody
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State Sen. floss Tolleson speaks to
Houston County Republicans at the local
party’s annual meeting Saturday at Middle
Georgia Technical College.
tions at Houston County,
Northside, Perry and
Warner Robins high schools,
as well as renovations at
Northside and Warner
Robins middle schools;
• Land purchases;
• An athletic swimming
pool for the school system;
• A new bus shop;
• Warehouse renovations;
• Technology;
• A new primary school in
rerry,
• ClassrOotfi Additions to
elementary, and
• An elemen
tary school, { •
At a called meeting in
January the board discussed
dealing with growth in the
area, and an expected
17,500 new housing units
will translate into a need for
new schools, and expansions
to existing ones.
Thublin said funds from
the state may not cover all
these building projects. The
state allocates revenue ear
marked for capital improve
ments each year.
“They judge growth by the
entire school system, not by
individual schools,” Thublin
said.
of a Dublin relative of
Sherronica McKenzie.
Rooks said that officers
initially responded to an E
-911 call from the residence.
He said that Sherronica had
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At a meeting held in
January Thublin presented
a list of county schools that
will be reaching, or have
reached capacity. Schools
such as Morningside
Elementary, Bonaire
Elementary, Matt Arthur
and Lake Joy Elementary
are projected to have the
most growth this year, with
expected additional housing
in their districts. High
schools predicted to have
the most growth are Perry,
Northside and Warner
Robins. The latter is expect
ed to be over 175 students
over capacity.
If the state provides fund
ing according to growth,
only $2 million will be pro
vided, for the building of
middle schools, which is
where they see the most
need according to popula
tion.
Carpenter said the first
priority is teaching and
learning in the school sys
tem, “but there is also a
growing community to think
about.”
This board will discuss
these matters at its monthly
meeting today.
placed the call after the
stabbing.
Rooks said Sherronica has
made a statement to officers
but he could not release its
contents.
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More than a hundred local Republicans registered as delegates at the Houston County
Republican Party meeting Saturday.
GOP
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feel his voice would carry
nearly as much weight as
Kingston’s,” O’Neal said.
“We have the best of both
worlds now with representa
tion on both sides of the
aisle.”
The morning’s speaker
was state Sen. Ross Tolleson
of Perry.
“You are the ones who
keep the drive alive with
your hard work and dedica
tion,” said Tolleson. “We
have a great opportunity
ahead of us, but it will take
a lot of hard work at the
grass roots level. We will be
electing a lieutenant gover
nor and secretary of state in
the next election and we also
need to get started on re
electing Gov. Sonny
Perdue. ”
Tolleson credited Perdue
for the Republican party’s
dominance in Georgia poli
tics.
“He has led the campaign
for open government in
Georgia,” he said. “If you
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look at the budget today
there is more disclosure in it
than ever before. We want
full disclosure on how your
tax money is spent.”
Tolleson reported on the
General Assembly’s
progress so far in this year’s
legislative session.
“We passed civil justice
reform and we passed the
virtual high school program,
which will help out rural
school districts give better
opportunities to their stu
dents,” he said. “We passed
the Master Teacher pro
gram, and the state will now
pay for liability insurance
for teachers.
Tolleson also noted
O’Neal’s leadership in pass
ing a tax decrease for busi
nesses, and spoke in general
about moral leadership.
“I worry about an America
where God is taken out of
our schools,” he said. “Our
moral foundation is the
strongest army we have. We
should always stand guard
on our strong moral princi
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pies. This is the greatest
state in the union and we
are truly blessed to live
here.”
Also speaking was fresh
man state Sen. Cecil Staton.
“I would not be in office
except for the hard work of
people like you who get out
on a Saturday morning,”
Staton said. “The Houston
County delegation is the
best of any delegation in the
state with people like
Tolleson, O’Neal and Willie
Talton.
“It has been a great expe
rience so far for me and we
have done some things that
will be of assistance to our
military people. We are serv
ing with a great governor
and it is a high honor to rep
resent you in Atlanta.”
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