2022 TOP PRIORITY – Secure Funding for Coastal Pines Technical College Expansion
A SAFE COMMUNITY
- Support Glynn County’s request for a regional Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
- Support funding for the implementation of traffic calming processes to make the Bay Street corridor pedestrian friendly.
- Support for EPA/EPD initiatives and Brownfield clean-up projects.
- Support directing resources and support for workforce development through the Department of Labor and ensure that funds are properly directed to local communities through the WIOA program.
- Support state bond investment in bridges and maintain or increase earmarked funding for local bridges.
- Guarantee Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) maintains current traffic flow on Sea Island Road while the bridge over Dunbar Creek is being replaced.
- Support funding to address Sea Level Rising (SLR) projects.
- Support funding for mental health crisis in Georgia.
A PROSPEROUS COMMUNITY
- Continue to support funding for transportation projects in Glynn County to enhance economic development opportunities and evacuation routes.
- Continue to support and fund rural broadband expansion.
- Amend the Taxpayer Bill of Rights to allow for plain language.
- Protect Georgia’s Lodging Tax from redirection.
- Support funding to create affordable housing and workforce housing initiatives for public service employees, like police officers and educators, especially in downtown Brunswick.
- Support expansion of the Port of Brunswick.
- Support and fund key improvements of the main State entrance gateways along I-95 corridor.
- Support legislation that provides enhanced funding and economic development incentives to regional economic development entities, such as Southeast Georgia Development Authority.
- Support funding for infrastructure improvement to locally owned industrial sites.
A COMMUNITY COMMITTED TO PLANNED AND MANAGED GROWTH
- Support local and state efforts to have a comprehensive management plan and funding mechanism to fortify and stabilize vulnerable shoreline areas on the Georgia coast.
- Expansion of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LITHC) program to include infill housing.
- Expansion of Georgia Dream Homeownership Program.
- Support local community efforts to ensure MSA designation stays intact under current law.
- Support additional funding for Pre-K programs.
A DESIRED LOCATION TO LIVE AND VISIT
- Support funding for Jekyll Island Authority capital improvement.
- Support the current Certificate of Need (CON) Program to help support hospitals, especially during the pandemic.
- Support funding for hospitals that have incurred losses due to the pandemic.
- Support efforts to ensure that affordable health insurance coverage is available to our citizens.
- Support funding to create programs to address systemic poverty and homelessness.
- Support the reactivation of the State Historic Preservation Tax Incentives to foster the adaptive re-use of historic structures for modern use.
- Support funding initiatives to combat chronic blight.
- Support Coastal Georgia Greenway – Bicycle Path Funding.
- Support funding for a state-of-the art lifesaving station for East Beach as part of the proposed Coast Guard Beach Park on St. Simons Island.
