Madison County Industrial Authority reports to BOC

“Cooper Road/Russell Drive — Atlanta Paving Company plans to begin shortly after the Fourth of July on basing and paving on this project. They have 45 days to complete the project. They say it will only take about two weeks to complete. We hope in the next monthly report we can report this project as completed.

“The Blacks Creek Church Road area that the City of Commerce has been serving water has been taken over by Madison County Water. The transition has gone smoothly. We have some new requests for water in the area.

“There are requests for water all over Madison County. There seems to be wells failing all over the area. We are installing taps and meters throughout the county where we have water available.

“The Virginia Lane extension is complete and customers are connecting to Madison County. We have taps and meters for eight customers who signed up for service.

“Phil (Munro) is continuing to work on the Hwy. 29 extension. We hope to have the plans completed soon.

“The draft copy of the South Madison County Commercial Brochure was given to the Chamber of Commerce’s Economic Development Committee at the June meeting for their review and input. We hope to get all the suggestions for changes by the July meeting to finalize this for printing.

“The Georgia Chamber of Commerce has been working/supporting the Connect Georgia T-SPLOST in the 11 regions outside the Atlanta Region. This will certainly be a boost for Madison County if the region passes it. The 25 percent local part for Madison County is projected to be $15,599,410 over 10 years. You can go online at 222.connectgeorgia2012.com for information on this. The Northeast Georgia Region revenue projection is $987,987,352 and 26,676 jobs over 10 years.”