Deal to sign amended FY 2018 budget at Polk County Airport
The new Georgia budget includes an allocation for Polk County’s airport runway extension.
CEDARTOWN — Gov. Nathan Deal is set to come to Polk County at the end of the week to provide further information about announced plans from the state to spend some money locally.
Deal will be joined by local leadership at Cornelius Moore Field on Friday at 9:30 a.m. and sign the amended FY 2018 budget for the state that includes allocations for Polk County’s airport runway extension, and funds to reopen Cedartown’s Career Center as a new venture under the Technical College System of Georgia.
The state is providing funds for a number of projects this year to Polk County, from grant money being forwarded from the Department of Transportation for additional Local Maintenance and Improvement, grant money for Cherokee Road re-surfacing and widening, a grant for the first phase to help pay for the Goodyear Park Soccer Complex put forth by the City of Cedartown, and much more.
The public is invited to come out and welcome Deal to the area at the airport before his arrival. He’ll be making remarks to the community during the event.
The Polk County Standard Journal toward the restoration project.
“The disposed property, this is property that is leftover from cases, or that people don’t ever claim,” Sisk said. “We go through a legal process and advertisements for anyone to make claim on these properties, and then they’re either sold at auction, or in this particular case, it’s actually just cash money that hasn’t been claimed.”
In 2015, Sisk’s office came into possession of a 1981 Trans Am that was formerly a Catoosa County Sheriff’s Department patrol car in the early 1980s under then-sheriff J.D. Stewart.
Sisk says his office hasn’t spent any tax dollars on the vehicle, and that the title belongs to the sheriff’s office. The agency also didn’t spend any money acquiring the vehicle, as it was given to his office after being found in a junkyard.
Adam Cook, Catoosa County News