CVTC CVTC classroom building, Resaca Battlefield stay in state budget
By John M. Willis
Calhoun Times
Two multi-million projects that will benefit Gordon County for years into the future survived the contentious state budget process.
Local lawmakers managed to keep $11.9 million for a new classroom building at Coosa Valley Technical College’s Gordon County campus in the state’s fiscal 2008 budget.
And in a surprise move, Gov. Sonny Perdue redirected $2.5 million that had been earmarked for a performing arts center in Cobb County to the Resaca Battlefield redevelopment project.
Rep. John Meadows, R-Calhoun, said the county’s legislative delegation has been working for three years to fund the third classroom building at CVTC.
“That was the most important thing for us, and I am indebted to Preston Smith (whose Senate district includes the city of Calhoun) for keeping the CVTC funding in the Senate budget,” Meadows said.
Smith managed to save $11.9 million in bond money that will pay for Phase III of the college’s building program at its campus in Calhoun.
“The governor did the right thing when he left the bonds in the budget,” Meadows said, noting that Perdue had used a line item veto to cut $122.9 million in bonds out of the budget.
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