The Atlanta City Council has called two referendums for May 2022 – one to raise up to $350 million with a sales tax to fund transportation improvements, and a $406 million bond package for broad improvements to be financed by property taxes.
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$2.3 million remains to be spent in ATL mayor’s campaign; fundraising continues
Atlanta’s mayoral candidates reported $2.3 million in cash on hand with three weeks remaining before the Nov. 2 city elections.
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Georgia Senate nears vote on conservative post-pandemic budget
Some cash for MARTA, police training and rural hospitals might not make it.
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Georgia budget: House endorses behavioral health & developmental disability spend, not Medicaid
But as usual, the budget is mostly health care and education
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Georgia budget: Might be too conservative, or just conservative enough.
This would gets Georgia through June. Longer-term budget to come.
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Georgia governor proposes fairly steady spending in next 17 months
The feds will do much of the new spending in Georgia, not the state.
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Georgia agency recommends nine metro Atlanta transit projects for state bond funding
But will Georgia’s budget-writers do anything with the list?
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Governor, lawmakers request 14% state budget cuts
Schools won’t be spared the pain.
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Metro Atlanta to spend $173 billion on transportation by 2050
Metro Atlanta commuting won’t be much be much worse — or much better.
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If Georgia’s budget were $1, health care and education would get quarters. Most other things would get pennies.
Georgia’s budget, counting state and federal money, is bigger than football, but smaller than Home Depot. Most of the spending is on health care and education.
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Explainer: When Georgia lawmakers do — and don’t — know the cost of their votes
The nice thing about a fiscal note is that all sides consider it at least a good-faith estimate, free of industry or partisan spin. But Georgia legislators often don’t have a nonpartisan official estimate of what their votes will mean for the state’s finances.
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Georgia’s new governor pitches budget: here’s a look at what is — and isn’t — in it
Georgia will have about $27.5 billion to spend in the year that begins in July. The new governor is making proposed teacher raises a centerpiece. Democrats are pressing to spend on a Medicaid expansion.
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With online “checkbook” register, Atlanta aims to get ahead of public, media questions
With a new website that shows Atlanta’s spending down to the checkbook level, city leaders are hoping for many things, including to head off the many folks writing in to ask questions about city spending.
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$100 million state transit bond marked for Ga. 400 rapid bus works
A state that’s been reluctant to bankroll buses and the train in its biggest metro has announced a major mass transit spend by Georgia standards — $100 million. That’ll be a substantial downpayment on rapid bus service along Ga. 400.
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Atlanta City Council approves $661 million budget
Atlanta City Council on Monday approved a $661 million budget and personnel plan for the upcoming year, but it left many on both sides of the dais unhappy with pay for public safety officers.
