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Proposed End to Sales Tax on Fuel Will Hurt Butts County

Posted on: February 11th, 2015

March 11, 2015 Update – A revised State Transportation Funding Bill (HB 170) passed the Georgia House of Representatives on March 5, 2015.  Our local representatives, Susan Holmes and Andy Welch, voted against the bill.  As passed, the bill will allow Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) and Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales […]

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Generator Grant Sought

Posted on: November 18th, 2014

November 11, 2014 – The Authority has been given the go-ahead by the Georgia Emergency Management Agency to make a final application for $1.1 million in Hazard Mitigation Grant funding for emergency generators for the Burford water treatment plant and Highway 36 booster pumping station.  This would allow the system to continue to treat and […]

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