Gadawg47
Joined: 07/20/2007
Posts: 13
Location: Rome, Ga
Occupation: working with the incarcerated

Recent Comments by Gadawg47
The Watercooler
10/30/2007 07:34:25 AM
I think the commissioners got what they wanted out of the splost and are going to forget about the work release center, I think that if everything that was on the splost agenda isn't done then the splost should be repealed.They put a couple of good things on it just to get people to vote for it and then forget about what the prople wanted most and do as they please. I for one will never vote for another splost. everyone remember the lock and dam project?.never done and money poof into thin air.

gadawg47
Disappearance of Theresa Parker, 911 dispatcher in Walker County
10/12/2007 07:44:32 PM
Even if you don't post on here and just read take a min and go light a candle for Theresa call your friends and family and give them the address to go light one. it is free and maybe the family will see all the candles buring and know that everyone is still thinking about Theresa I know I don't post very much but I try to keep a candle lit. thank you in advance for doing this
Disappearance of Theresa Parker, 911 dispatcher in Walker County
10/12/2007 07:39:39 PM
Only 5 candles buring for Theresa come on let's get them all buring tonight and show her tha way home. it only takes a min to light one http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=there
The Watercooler
10/09/2007 09:03:18 PM
I agree with you 100% dalejr, I also know people like this that can afford insurance offered to them by the company where they work but won't take it because they can get peach care for a fraction of what it would cost them to put the kids on their insurance. they would save money even if they had to hire extra people to investigate. it should not be a problem to investigate all you would have to do is run their social security number and see if they were employed and where.
it would help out a lot of kids that really need the program. just my opinion
anyone else have an opinion on this?
gadawg
What makes me mad in Floyd County is...
09/24/2007 05:47:10 PM
Posted by Gadawg47 on September 24, 2007
I think if they don't build the work releasr center that they should repeal the splost tax, because that is why a lot of people voted for the splost to begin with and then the County Commissioners added there little projects in the mix such as new public works buildings etc... and caused the work release center to be over budget. The demolition did not cost the Count anything it was done with Inmate labor and all the scrap metal was sold and put in the splost account.
Posted by dfs724 on September 24, 2007
Are the alternative plans for the prison renovation legal as per specifications set forth on the splost vote?
I wonder is this another bait and switch like the splost vote to upgrade the lock and dam on the Coosa River?

What makes me mad in Floyd County is...
09/24/2007 05:45:00 PM
Budgetary woes are sending the Floyd County Commission back to the drawing board for a work release center to house nonviolent inmates.

Plans to remodel the old County Prison on Black’s Bluff Road will cost nearly twice the $1.75 million dedicated to the project in the 2006 special purpose, local option sales tax package.

County Manager Kevin Poe is slated to present options to the board at its Tuesday meeting. Commissioners caucus at 4 p.m. and start their regular meeting at 6 p.m. in the County Administrative Building on Fourth Avenue.

“The problem is, the prison is bigger than we need,” Poe said at Friday’s agenda-setting session. “It’s expensive to do all that duct­work and electrical.”

His recommendation: Accept a low bid of $561,000 to redo the Public Works complex at the site and reject the $2.6 million prison renovation bid. Raze the prison — which was built in 1926 and replaced in 2003 — and put a prefabricated metal building in its place.


What makes me mad in Floyd County is...
08/28/2007 08:45:25 AM
If they are going to do this to the bars here then what is next? cars, groceries, clothes that you buy outside Floyd County. I didn't buy my truck here I went to Atlanta and got it for less ooopppppsss I might not should have told that they might come after me for the taxes.
Memories of Phyllis Wright-Davis
08/14/2007 03:27:42 PM
They have a POI in the Wright Davis murder, not calling them a suspect yet just a POI
Firefighters criticize Catoosa County advertising for full-time fire chief
07/21/2007 01:27:13 PM
To amend Part 5 of Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to equipment of law enforcement and emergency vehicles, so as to provide for restrictions with respect to the use of blue lights; to provide for exceptions; to provide for criminal penalties; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.


BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:


SECTION 1.
Part 5 of Article 1 of Chapter 8 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to equipment of law enforcement and emergency vehicles, is amended by striking Code Section 40_8_90, relating to restrictions on the use of flashing or revolving blue lights, and inserting in its place the following:
"40_8_90.
(a)(1) Except as provided in this paragraph and subsection (b) of this Code section, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to operate any motor vehicle equipped with or containing a device capable of producing any blue lights, whether flashing, blinking, revolving, or stationary, except:
(A) Motor vehicles owned or leased by any federal, state, or local law enforcement agency;
(B) Motor vehicles with a permit granted by a state agency to bear such lights; or
(C) Antique, hobby, and special interest vehicles, as defined in subsection (a) of Code Section 40_2_77, which may display a blue light or lights of up to one inch in diameter as part of any such vehicle´s rear stop lamps, rear turning indicator, rear hazard lamps, and rear reflectors.
(2) Any person who violates paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) The prohibition contained in subsection (a) of this Code section shall not apply to any elected sheriff who, pursuant to an agreement between the sheriff and the county governing authority, is using his or her personal motor vehicle in a law enforcement activity, provided such vehicle is marked as provided in Code Section 40_8_91.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to use any motor vehicle equipped with flashing, blinking, revolving, or stationary blue lights in the commission of a felony, and, upon conviction of a violation of this subsection, the punishment shall be a fine of not less than $1,000.00 or imprisonment of not less than one year, or both."
Firefighters criticize Catoosa County advertising for full-time fire chief
07/21/2007 01:06:57 PM
rome, the only law I know of is if you have a blue strobe light you must have your vehicle registered with the state.