During the 2008 legislative session, the Georgia General Assembly passed and Governor Perdue signed the Georgia Water Supply Act of 2008 (SB342).
Published Date: November 18, 2008
Citizen call centers, along with integrated online and interactive voice response telephone systems, provide local governments with an opportunity to significantly enhance citizen services and improve government accountability and transparency.
Published Date: November 14, 2008
The guide highlights the economic and quality-of-life benefits to communities that have a robust fiber infrastructure, and examines in detail four communities that have successfully deployed fiber-to-the-home services to their citizens and businesses.
Published Date: November 14, 2008
GMA is pleased to provide for municipal officials a discussion of the key features of the Georgia open meetings and open records laws.
Published Date: November 14, 2008
GMA's 2008 Capital Needs Survey shows cities will need billions of dollars over the next five years to provide economic development, protect the environment and preserve the public’s health and safety.
Published Date: November 10, 2008
A report released today finds Georgia families with two parents and two children need between $31,000 and $56,000 in annual income to be self-sufficient, depending on the county.
Published Date: November 10, 2008
The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries.
Published Date: November 10, 2008
Working together for community trees, Georgia’s municipalities have joined hands, hearts and shovels to build cooperation among diverse groups and to create healthier and safer community forests.
Published Date: November 3, 2008
Q&A from Ask GMA.
Published Date: November 3, 2008
The city of Jefferson has seen its population nearly double in less than 10 years – going from 3,825 people in 2000 to an estimated 7,513 in 2007.
Published Date: November 3, 2008
Local and state officials recently joined business and labor leaders in calling on Congress to include additional funding for infrastructure investment in a new national economic recovery package.
Published Date: November 3, 2008
This publication prepared for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development examines different impact fee programs, and provides recommendations to reduce their adverse effects on housing affordability.
Published Date: October 31, 2008
The Federal Trade Commission will suspend enforcement of the new “Red Flags Rule” until May 1, 2009, to give creditors and financial institutions additional time in which to develop and implement written identity theft prevention programs.
Published Date: October 23, 2008
Four state agencies announced today the launch of the Water Supply Technical Assistance Program (WSTA), a new state service designed to provide a “one stop shop” for local governments to receive guidance related to developing water supply projects, particularly the development of new reservoirs or the modification of existing reservoirs for water supply purposes.
Published Date: October 21, 2008
This article employs data from the American Housing Survey (AHS) collected between 1993 and 2001 to compare manufactured owned housing with rented housing and traditional owned housing as a tenure alternative for low-income households.
Published Date: October 20, 2008