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Countdown to county projectsBy SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com

Coweta County is continuing to expand offerings for its citizens. The county is moving forward with plans for a new community center at the Central complex,

located off Ga. Hwy. 154 and Lower Fayetteville Road. The community center, which will be simi-lar to the county’s existing centers in Sargent, Welcome and Senoia, will be located on a tract of land adjacent to the Coweta Sheriff's office’s east side precinct and near the Central Library. Community centers, which can be rented for events and gatherings, have a large meeting/din-ing space with tables, a kitchen and restrooms. There’s a high demand for the current cen-ters, and they are rented frequently.

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CCSS faces big changesBy CELIA SHORTT celia@newnan.com

In 2015 the Coweta County School System is facing one of its biggest changes to date, becoming an Investing in Educational Excellence (IE2) school system.

If its application and contract with the State Board of Education are approved this summer, CCSS will have more flexibility from state education laws and rules. With this increased flexibility, IE2 will also bring CCSS more account-ability with student achievement.

Small-town living across CowetaBy W. WINSTON SKINNERwinston@newnan.com

Across Coweta County, small towns offer charming ambience – friendly churches and opportunities to visit the post office and know one’s neighbors.

Grantville in southwest Coweta County is the county’s third largest municipality – behind Newnan and Senoia. Doug Jewell is the town’s mayor, and council members are Leonard Gomez, Ruby Hines, Willie Kee and David Riley.

Grantville is the only municipality in the county that sells its citizens electricity, water and natural gas. There are several parks in town, including a popular water park when the weather is warm. The city has a recreation department and houses the area senior citizens center in the Glanton Complex, which also contains city offices.

The council meets the second and fourth Mondays at 6:30 p.m.

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CCFD and EMS combineBy WES MAYER wesley@newnan.com

The Coweta County Fire Department is looking forward to a few changes in its five-year plan, but at the moment, the department is busy transitioning to taking over all emergency medical services in Coweta County.

The department will officially be taking over the county’s emergency medical services on May 1, said Coweta County Fire Chief Johnny Teeters. At the moment, the department is manning one ambulance, but when the county’s contract with American Medical Response ends at the end of April, the department will be operating seven ambulances. The one ambulance the county currently operates responds to calls around downtown Newnan.

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What the UWG means for CowetaBy CLAY NEELY clay@newnan.com

The opening of the University of West Georgia’s Newnan campus signals another milestone in the community.

“Not only does it aim to add to our quality of life, but also creates another opportunity to provide higher education for our citizens,” according to Mayor Keith Brady.

“In the past, residents had to leave our city to continue their education, but not anymore,” Brady said. “It’s a continuation of our community’s ability to provide education, employment, health care, recreation – we are mature and prospering and keeping an eye on what we need.” UWG

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Construction will likely begin in late 2015. The proj-ect will be funded with the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.

Across the way, work is continuing on the expansion of the Central Park soccer complex.

A “comfort station” with restrooms, vending, a covered picnic area and an air-condi-tioned space for residents to cool off is nearing comple-tion. The county has made changes to the parking lot, and three new fields have been built. The two largest fields have lights now, and the walk-ing trail has been expanded and improved. There’s also a playground.

The county owns additional land on the site for possible expansion, as well as a vacant house which may be used as office and storage space for the soccer teams.

Another project in the works is a new vehicle and heavy equipment maintenance and repair shop for county vehi-cles. Currently, there are sepa-rate auto and heavy equipment shops, where work is done on all county vehicles except fire engines, ambulances and tran-sit vehicles. Those are taken care of at the Coweta County Fire Department’s mainte-nance facility.

The heavy equipment facil-ity is currently behind the guard line at the Coweta County Prison, and both facil-ities are old and a bit on the small side. Both were built in the 1970s.

The new facility will be bui lt on Selt Road, near Coweta County Animal Con-

trol. Land clearing has been done, but there will be exten-sive civil engineering work needed. Architectural plans will be done this year, with construction likely in 2016.

The county is also planning to fence the old pauper cem-etery, and has marked it per-manently on the deed for the land, off Hospital Road adja-cent to Evans Middle School.

Ongoi ng road ma i nte -nance always takes up a lot of Coweta County’s time – and money. This year, county and contract crews will rehabil-itate and resurface over 40 miles of county roads this spring and summer.

This year, the county will be repairing some of those roads with a “double surface treat-ment.” Also known as “chip seal,” it's an old way of repair-ing roads that have fallen into disrepair in recent years.

The county will be trying it out on about nine miles of roadway this year. The pro-cess will only be used on roads with traffic volumes of 200 or fewer vehicles per day.

There will be deep patch-ing of failed areas, and then a “leveling course” to smooth things out. The double surface treatment consists of a layer of liquid asphalt -- aka “tar” -- with a layer of smooth stones rolled over the surface. Then there is a second liquid layer, and a second layer of smaller stones. It’s a slightly rougher pavement surface than stan-dard paving, with a bit more road noise, but it is signifi-cantly cheaper.

Coweta’s primary way of repairing severely deterio-rated roads is “full depth rec-lamation.” It costs roughly $265,000 per mile, accord-ing to Tod Handley, Coweta’s director of transportation and engineering. Roads with fewer problems get the “crack relief

interlayer” treatment, which costs about $150,000 per mile.

Double surface treatment runs about $100,000 per mile, and with county crews doing some of the work, the cost could be even lower.

Coweta continues to be a popular place for the film and television industry – and a popular place for fans to visit.

In just one week in Febru-ary, Coweta’s Film Ready liai-son, Tray Baggarly of the Con-vention and Visitor’s Bureau, got calls from six location managers or scouts. “Four were scouting our county for major motion pictures,” Bag-garly said.

Two were interested in the now-vacant former Piedmont Newnan Hospital on Hospi-tal Road. It was used last year for filming of “The Walking Dead.”

“ You don’t have ma ny empty hospitals in the country and they’re hearing about this one,” Baggarly said. One proj-ect was a documentary and another was a commercial.

Baggarly said they are see-ing international visitors com-ing to Coweta to see where “The Walking Dead” was filmed. “We had five people from Peru, and their sole rea-son for being here was” to see “Walking Dead” filming sites. There was a similar group from France. “Last fall, in one week, we had 10 visitors from Switzerland, Germany and Austria. All of them were here for these ‘The Walking Dead’ locations. It’s unbelievable,” Baggarly said.

In December, a German travel writer visited. “We thought, while he was here, we’d show him our state park” and other sites, Baggarly said. “He didn’t want to see any of that. He wanted to see where ‘The Walking Dead’ was filmed. That was it.”

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Major road projects in worksBy SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com

Several major road proj-ects are in the works in Coweta, and as they wrap up, the biggest of all – the new Interstate 85 interchange on Poplar Road - will be getting started.

The interchange construc-tion is still a ways away, but preliminary work has been going on for years.

The interchange project is currently in the right-of-way acquisition phase, with con-struction set to begin in 2016, said Tod Handley, Coweta’s director of transportation and engineering. The con-struction work is expected to take two years.

Around the same time construction work begins on the interchange project, the Newnan Bypass Extension will be complete and open to traffic. Cowetans will also be traversing two new round-abouts, with a third on the way.

The roundabout on Lower Fayetteville Road at the entrance to the Newnan Cen-tre is nearing completion.

Another one will be built at the “Five Points” intersection of Turkey Creek, Poplar and East Newnan roads and Mar-tin Luther King Drive.

In addition to the round-about itself, portions of East Newnan and Turkey Creek roads will be realigned, and a portion of each road will become a dead-end with a cul-de-sac.

Clearing and grading for the project is set to begin soon, with hopes to have most of the site preparation work done by the time school starts in the fall. It’s a joint project of Coweta County and the city of Newnan, and, at the request of the Central Edu-

cational Center, lane closures will be limited during the before and after school rush hours.

The Five Points project is expected to take about a year to finish. The contract com-pletion date is March 7, 2016.

The Bypass project is set to be finished in the sum-mer of 2016. The expected date for completion of all work except landscaping is June 2016, said Kimberly Larson, spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Transportation.

The project consists of a lot more than just the extension of the Bypass from its current end at Turkey Creek Road to Ga. Hwy. 16 East near Inter-state 85. Hwy. 16 will be wid-ened to four lanes from the Bypass intersection to U.S. 29. The problematic intersection of U.S. 29, Hwy. 16 and Pine Road will be reconfigured to a four-point intersection with a traffic light, and U.S. 29 will be widened to four lanes from Interstate 85 to just past the Pine Road intersection.

Coweta County’s biggest roundabout will be built at the four-way intersection of Ga. Hwys. 16 and 54 between Sharpsburg and Turin. Plans are for a two-lane round-about, with multiple dedi-cated turn lanes. The project is being done by the GDOT. Construction is scheduled for fiscal year 2017, which begins July 1, 2016.

These are the major proj-ects, but several other road projects will be done in the next few years.

A long-awaited safety improvement will be the installation of traffic lights at each end of Lora Smith Road. Coweta County has been trying to get GDOT to approve a traffic light for

the intersection of Lora Smith and Hwy. 34 East for years; GDOT has finally agreed. A light will also be installed at Lora Smith and Lower Fayetteville Road. Handley said that he expects the Lora Smith work to be bid as one project, with a contract time of n i ne mont h s . Construction is expected to b e g i n s o m e time this year.

Coweta County also plans to work on the realign-ment of How-ard Road this year.

I n 2 0 1 6 , Coweta County will b e g i n t h e intersection improvement o n S m o k e y Road at Old Corinth/Belk Road, and the relocation of the intersection of Old. Hwy. 85 at Ga. Hwy. 16 East. The inter-section reloca-tion will be done to improve sight dis-tance for motorists.

Projects in the future include a two-foot winding of Sul-livan Road, realign-ment of Herring Road and U.S. 29, drainage improvement and rehabil-itation on Amlajack Bou-levard and an intersection improvement at Eastside School Road and Old Hwy. 85.

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Grading for the new section of the Newnan Bypass is complete and crews have been busy moving dirt and laying pipe for the new road, which is set to be open to traffic in the summer of 2016.

By CLAY NEELY clay@newnan.com

The economic growth that Coweta County has

experienced over the last several years shows no sign

of slowing down. As noted by the University of

West Georgia, one out of every eight jobs in Coweta is currently

tied to the health care industry. According to Greg Wright, presi-

dent of the Coweta County Develop-ment Authority, the continued growth

in the health care sector will continue into the future for Coweta County.

“ Wit h t he g row t h of P ied mont Newnan Hospital, the expansion at Can-cer Treatment Centers of America, the

opening of HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Newnan, and the development of new medical offices, Coweta can expect this trend to continue,” said Greg Wright, president of the Coweta County Develop-ment Authority.

In 2014, the Development Authority pre-sided over several new projects such as the Niagara Bottling facility, Spancrete, Health-South Rehabilitation Hospital of Newnan, along with several others.

“I think the Niagara Bottling project has had a tremendous impact on our local eco-nomic development efforts,” Wright said. “Niagara is an outstanding company, so having the jobs and the capital investment in Coweta County will have an immediate and lasting impact on the community.”

“The speed in which the project moved has helped promote Coweta County as a community that can get large indus-trial projects done in a timely manner,” Wright continued. “Companies want to move quickly once they decide on where to locate or expand, so having completed a project like Niagara so quickly gives us an advantage

when working with companies with aggres-sive time schedules.”

And while recruitment of new businesses to the area remains strong, Wright contends that the continued growth of existing indus-tries in the community is a good sign.

“As people in sales know, it is easier to keep an existing customer than it is to find a new one, so we place a great deal of empha-sis on meeting the needs of our existing industries,” Wright said.

“Over the past year, we have seen our industries - both large and small - add-ing new jobs, constructing new buildings or additions, or buying new equipment,” Wright continued. “This is a great sign for the future of our economy.”

Coweta remains well-positioned for indus-trial growth into the future, as Wright notes the availability of industrial property at each of the interchanges in the county.

The work the Pattillo Industrial Real Estate has done to clear its largest industrial site, to remove the undergrowth on many of its other sites and to extend Coweta Indus-trial Parkway to provide access to addi-tional sites makes the entire industrial park more attractive for prospects, according to Wright.

The rezoning of the Bridgeport property at Exit 41 gives Coweta another option for companies that need large tracts of indus-trial land that can provide easy access to the interstate, to CSX rail and to the Newnan Coweta Airport.

“From a workforce standpoint, we expect great things in the future,” Wright said. “The enrollment numbers at West Georgia Technical College continue to grow, and the University of West Georgia has provided a great educational opportunity in Newnan for decades.”

“The CEC remains the model for technical and adult education in the nation,” Wright said. “It is one of the key selling points for our community.”

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While Brady feels that the opening of the University in August may not provide an immediate economic “ripple effect,” he believes that the presence of the university will seamlessly integrate itself into a thriv-ing downtown economy.

“There will be many opportunities in our private sector,” Brady said. “Merchants will cater to students and it will create a hugely positive impact on our community for generations.”

“We have a university that offers general core curriculum and the chance to obtain a four-year degree,” Brady continued. “It’s one of the reasons why the city was willing to take on debt when we haven’t before.”

In addition to the educational opportuni-ties the project and new campus will bring to Newnan, UWG’s Center for Business and Economic Research reported the university is expected to generate between $1.4 million and $3.4 million annually in the community.

The opening of West Georgia Univer-sity also joins in the life cycle that Coweta County continues to fulfill for its citizens.

“The connection of the community is the only way we’ll be successful,” said UWG President Dr. Kyle Marrero. “To have a com-

munity come together for a project like this doesn’t happen everywhere.”

Marrero said 500 unduplicated students are enrolled currently at the Newnan cam-pus, currently located in the Shenandoah Industrial Park. By 2018, his goal is to have 3,000 unduplicated students at the new campus.

As business development director for the city of Newnan, Hasco Craver IV believes that the availability of collegiate education benefits not only the young but also those who are seeking to continue their education, regardless of their age or skill set.

“We are producing tomorrow’s business owners and staff members,” Craver said. “When we are working to recruit new indus-try to our area, they know they are looking at an asset that offers them the chance to send their staff or team members to this institution to continue their education.”

According to Craver, one of the major things that businesses are looking for is a pipeline for further education, often inquir-ing about the proximity to major universi-ties and training schools.

“The CEC (Central Education Center) and WGTC (West Georgia Technical Col-lege) are very nimble,” Craver said. “These schools can design very specific degrees and training programs on the fly that are aimed

directly a t c e r -tain groups we are trying to recruit.”

“Having the CEC in our back-yard is a luxury,” Cr aver cont i nued . “They invented what they do in terms of special-ized education, and to have the originator here is a strong benefit to our community.”

For Brady, it’s another example of a community pooling its resources to cre-ate another avenue of opportunity.

“We’re very excited about this, and we’re very fortunate to come out of the downturn quicker than other areas,” Brady said. “It’s the byproduct of hard work, dedication and having a community where everyone pulls together.”

PHOTO BY WINSTON SKINNER

Amy Tisenchek explains a facet of the UWG-Newnan Hospital project as she and Dr. Ernest Barron, right, look out a window. Behind them is Tray Baggarly. Rosa Connally is in the foreground.

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Newnan ready for next level of business recruitment BY CLAY NEELY CLAY@NEWNAN.COM

The growth of Coweta County continues to attract new industries and businesses to the community.

With amenities including education, recreation, and the ability to shop at both unique and national stores, the region is poised to bring in new business.

As business development director for the city of Newnan, Hasco Craver IV is attempting to recruit larger companies to the area to establish secondary offices, specifically targeting life sciences (health-care), information technology and corpo-rate headquarters.

“We feel that we can go after these proj-ects as our community now provides the quality of life and amenities that these types of projects are looking for,” Craver said. “Companies want to be able to attract talent and their ability to do so if based on where a prospect can live,” Craver said.

According to Craver, the city is aiming

to recruit larger companies seeking secondary office locations. These types of offices usually employ 50 to 100, and their presence is a sign that the community is a desirable place to live.

“We have identified a few sites and are drawing plans for them to use as promo-tional collateral,” Craver said.

Craver also sees the city being a destina-tion for high-growth companies that are looking to locate their facility along the I-85 corridor between Atlanta and Mont-gomery, citing that companies both domes-tic and international often seek a location that puts them in close proximity to an airport the size of Hartsfield-Jackson.

Going after the next available green space to develop new business isn’t necessarily the best method of attract-ing industry, according to Craver.

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Horses, trucks, trains to decorate downtown

PUBLIC ART TO FOCUS ON TRANSPORTATIONBy W. WINSTON SKINNERwinston@newnan.com

Sometime this summer, downtown Newnan will be f illed with public art – f iberglass trucks, trains and horses painted by local artists.

The pieces are part of the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society’s second public art proj-ect, “Trains, Horses and Pickup Trucks: All Roads Lead To Newnan.” The pieces arrived in February and then went to various loca-tions for artists to use paint – and their creativity – to make each one unique.

The 2015 art event places its focus on transportation and will highlight three modes of transit that have had a major impact on Coweta County’s history. The proceeds of the event will ben-efit the society’s planned children’s

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other locations.The horses attracted lots of attention and

brought hundreds of people into the down-town area to view them.

A few of them remain on public display – either downtown or at other spots in Newnan and Coweta.

The new art pieces are to be displayed for three to six months. Then sponsors will be able to display the piece at their business, their home or another location.

Sold were 18 trucks, six engines, three horses and a caboose. “These really are pieces of amazing art,” said Barbara Tumperi, chairman of the All Roads Lead To Newnan committee.

The caboose, which will be large enough for children to sit on while having photos made, was purchased by Newnan Utilities and will be moved to Carl Miller Park after the down-town exhibit is over.

Serving on the committee for the public art with Tumperi are Lisa Harwell, Jeremy Henson, Bette Hickman, Sarah LaMance and Pamela Prange.

The children’s museum will be in a brick home on Clark Street behind the McRitchie-Hollis Museum. It is envisioned as having a hands-on approach with exhibits appealing to children – and involving them in learning while having fun.

The Newnan-Coweta Historical Society’s second public art project is titled “Trains, Horses and Pickup Trucks: All Roads Lead To Newnan.”

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“In the listening sessions and other discus-sions that we have held with stakeholders, the response toward IE2 has been favorable,” said Superintendent Steve Barker. “We have heard from stakeholders that this is a good direction and a good opportunity for our schools.”

An IE2 school system is a flexibility option offered by the State Board of Education, which allows school systems to continue receiving waivers from some state laws and rules. The state board is now requiring all the school sys-tems in Georgia to choose a flexibility option by June 30 to continue receiving waivers.

Of the three flexibility options, two allow waivers – Investing in Educational Excellence (IE2) or Charter System. The third option is a Status Quo System, which does not allow any waivers.

In the IE2 option, waivers must be specified up front. With the Charter System, the school district is given a blanket waiver.

“For now, the Coweta County School Sys-tem has substantially completed local work on the application,” said Mark Whitlock, director of public policy for the school system and the chairman of the system committee that has developed the IE2 application. Whitlock also serves as the CEO of Coweta’s Central Educa-tional Center.

According to Whitlock, he and CCSS hope to have their IE2 contract approved by the State Board of Education and be able to move forward this summer.

“A negotiated contract would need to be approved by the local board of education,” he said. “If that occurs, Coweta could begin as an IE2 district in the 2015-2016 school year, tran-sitioning into the new flexibility and estab-lishing accountability data that year, followed by five years of normal accountability under the contract.”

Even though, CCSS will be changing to a different type of school system, it will not change it dramatically.

“We will be the same system, but with even greater ability to innovate,” said Whitlock. “We have been operating as an innovative system for years, and IE2 will allow us to con-tinue that and expand upon it.”

“Stakeholders at the school level and along grade levels, will be able to identify further innovative approaches to better serving stu-dents and improving student achievement,”

said Barker. “Our system will be in a position to take advan-tage of additional flexibility.”

“That might allow unique curriculum opportunities, scheduling changes, unique course credit options, part-nerships or other oppor-tunities that we might not have been able to imple-ment in the past,” he added.

CCSS st rateg ic pla n was adopted around this approach to a school sys-tem, so it fits in and expands on what the school system has already been doing.

“It calls for maintain-ing the innovations we have developed over years in Coweta and expanding oppor-tunities to better meet student needs,” said Whitlock of the change. “IE2 is a part of and a continuation of our school sys-tem’s overall approach.”

CCSS originally intended to be a Charter System, and announced its intent at the school board’s June meeting in 2014.

In January 2015, the school board approved switching the letter of intent from a Charter System to an IE2 System.

Barker said the state had recently clari-fied some of the consequences for the IE2 option, which made it a better option for CCSS.

“With those clarifications made at the state level, the IE2 option does afford us the abil-ity to gain waivers, gain flexibility, and build our improvement plan for the next five years, under our strategic plan, just as a charter sys-tem would allow … Given all of those parame-ters and the new information, my recommen-dation … (was) we revise our letter of intent toward an IE2 system,” he said.

Those consequences now include: Deter-mining improvement efforts for a school at the local level, monitoring those improvement efforts, utilizing state department resources in terms of consulting, and helping with improvement.

Even with the change, Barker said there was no “lost work,” and CCSS was still on a “good timetable” for the new flexibility option.

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East Coweta High School students celebrate after the 2014 graduation ceremony.

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By redeveloping existing shopping cen-ters, it means a minimum investment in private dollars and also means a greater benefit to the city.

“In some instances, new construction is the only answer, but if we can promote the reuse of an old commercial box center, it makes perfect sense and is the best use of our resources,” Craver said.

By redeveloping existing infrastruc-ture, it would help beautify the areas which exist between Ashley Park and downtown Newnan.

Last year, the city expanded its eco-nomic development policy by adding an addendum by listing existing industry incentives.

“If you fit within these certain types, we can give you this,” Craver said. “It’s not a guarantee but it helps the outside community understand what we’re look-ing for.”

In terms of new development, the city is looking for three specific industry devel-opment types – life sciences (health care), information technology and corporate headquarters.

“Those are the three types that if they want to come for new development and investment, we feel we can offer our most attractive incentive package,” Craver said. “We’re very specif ic in attempting to recruit in these types of areas.”

By offering a variety of incentives such as expedited permitting, waiving fees associated with opening businesses and construction projects, plan review fees, occupation tax fees, the city and county can help recruit new growth to the area.

“In order to remain competitive, you have to be willing to provide certain types of incentives to certain types of proj-ects,” Craver said. “What we have done in Newnan is instead of giving everyone an incentive, regardless of their project, we have chosen to be very specific.

“Because we’re good stewards of our city’s resources, we’re specific on what we will give and what we will not give.”

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“We just felt it was time to bring some structure and continuity to it,” Teeters said about the tran-sition. “Now we will have complete control and take care of all the management.”

To drive and work in the ambulances, the department has recently hired a number of full-time and part-time employees who are trained as both firefighters and paramedics, Teeters said. Existing employees who are not trained as para-medics are in the process of being cross-trained, and the entire department should be trained by the end of April.

Operating as both firefighters and paramedics, units will be able to rotate between the ambu-lances and fire trucks, and this should help save the department money and will help the depart-ment offset the costs of maintaining the ambu-lances. The additional training should also help lower the county’s Insurance Service Office (ISO) rating, Teeters said, which will lower insur-ance rates for Coweta homeowners. The county’s ISO rating is currently 4 – with 1 being the best.

The department is also busy studying the county’s demographics to determine where the most emergency medical calls are located, Tee-ters said. From data, they are able to tell most calls, about 30 to 40 percent, are focused around Newnan and the Thomas Crossroads area.

Upcoming plans for the fire department include replacing an ambulance that has exceeded the 200,000 mile-marker and a fire engine that is more than 10 years old, Teeters said. Plans are also under way to replace the department’s oldest fire station, Station 5, on Smokey Road.

All the stations have recently been renovated to improve the exteriors and furnishings and to update the facilities for female employees. Tee-ters said the department is hiring more and more

women, including five last month, so all the stations need to have separate bath-rooms, showers and beds, so women will be able to work at or move around to any station. The final two stations that need to be renovated, other than Station 5, are Station 14 on Tommy Lee Cook Road and Station 15 on Gordon Road.

The stations have all been recently equipped with Plymov-ent systems to keep the air in the fire stations and vehicle bays clean. The vents can be attached to the fire vehicles’ exhaust and prevent fumes from building up in the sta-tions, Teeters said.

“We are very in tuned to health,” Teeters said, “ and we want to eradicate anything we see as a health hazard to our employees.”

Fu r t her pla ns for t he department include hiring a full-time inspector to review commercial buildings in the county such as schools and daycare centers and maintain their safety, Teeters said. In about five years, with the con-struction of the new bypass near Station 1 on Turkey Creek Road, the department may also look at building a new training center – it currently shares the training center on Greison Trail with the Newnan Fire Depart-ment. As for expanding the actual number of fire stations, Teeters said that may also be about five years down the road.

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Newnan Police Department to get involved in communityBy WES MAYER wesley@newnan.com

Now that the Newnan Police Department has made the move into the new Public Safety Complex, the department is going to focus on furthering offi-cers’ training and becoming more involved with the community.

The police department moved into the new and much larger Public Safety Complex in February.

Before, the police department was mostly housed in the Municipal Building on Jef-ferson Street, but the department had grown to the point that other divisions had to split up and move to different buildings, including Newnan fire

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Coweta County Sheriff’s Office

keeps ahead of curveBy WES MAYER wesley@newnan.com

This year, the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office has made and is looking forward to a number of changes the department hopes will improve the safety of its officers and the people of Coweta County.

“We have a lot of projects coming up in the next sev-eral years,” said Coweta County Sheriff Mike Yeager, “and I’m proud to be a part of it.”

The biggest change coming to the sheriff’s office is the completion of its new video visitation center, which will add on to and remodel the Coweta County Jail’s current lobby. The new center is in the process of being built and is expected to be finished by the first of June, Yeager said.

The Coweta County Jail is actually one of the last county jails in Georgia that still allows visitors to meet with inmates face-to-face, Yeager said. Now, jail depu-ties must move people from an unsecure area of the building into a secure area to meet with an inmate, who is also moved, in a room separated by glass. Recently, there has been an increase in visitors attempting to bring contraband, such as marijuana or lewd photos, into the jail when they visit, Yeager said.

The video visitation center will cut all that out. Instead, visitors will speak to inmates via computers in the center – they will be able to see each other on the computer screens and converse through headsets. The only people who will be able to visit inmates in person will be their attorneys, Yeager said.

The center will serve as the same place where people go to bond out inmates, view video court and have fin-gerprinting done for background checks. For the offi-cers and jail employees, the video visitation center will have more office space, a new squad room and a per-sonal locker area. Part of the old jail lobby will be turned into more offices and allow the jail’s infirmary to be expanded.

“I think it’s going to be a good system, and a good situ-ation for everyone,” Yeager said.

Further down the road, in maybe three years, the sheriff’s office will be looking into adding another pod to the Coweta County Jail, raising the capacity of the jail by about 200 inmates, Yeager said. For this, they expect they will expand toward the old jail, which has been demolished. Whenever the addition happens, they will also work on renovating the old pods of the jail and updating their security technology.

“It’s neverending, and everything changes,” Yeager said. “We’re just trying to keep up and make sure we

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station three on Temple Avenue. Now the entire police department is back under one roof.

“They love it,” said Newnan Police Chief Douglas “Buster” Meadows. “You can tell a difference in everybody. We’re all back together and I haven’t heard anyone com-plain. It’s a nice building and we’re proud of it.”

At the moment, the entire department consists of 85 sworn police officers, Meadows said, and two new patrol officers were recently hired. Now that the department is in a bigger space, it will also be looking to hire more admin-istrative positions, including office assistants to Meadows and deputy chiefs Rodney Riggs and Wayne Jones.

Officer Edward Lee has also become the department’s new community resource officer, Meadows said. Lee will have the task of getting out into the Newnan neighbor-hoods and meeting with the community. He will also speak at schools, work with community programs and organize neighborhood watch programs.

“Lee is just a laid back, grounded, good officer,” Mead-ows said. “ And most importantly, he know how to talk to both grownups and kids.”

One of the biggest changes coming to the police depart-ment will be body-worn cameras for all its officers, Mead-ows said. The cameras, made by Taser International, will be mounted to the frames of glasses, so the camera will record everything the officer sees. Meadows said they tried the chest and shoulder mounted cameras, but they don’t work as well.

The Coweta County Sheriff’s Office invested in body-worn cameras last year, and have been very successful with them. The videos recorded by the cameras are all saved to a secure website, and if needed, the police depart-ment can easily review the videos or send them to the

distr ict at torney ’s office. Meadows said the police department has enough funds from SPLOST to sup-ply every officer with a camera, and they also plan on ordering 20 extra cameras just in case.

Last but not least, the department is look-ing into Narcan, the opioid antagonist medi-cine which helps resus-citate people who have overdosed on opiates such as oxycontin or her-oin. A few Newnan police officers have gone through some training on how to use the medicine, but the depart-ment is still seeking a doctor as an official medical advisor. Lt. Wesley Sweatman will also be in charge with the legal aspect of the medicine, to make sure officers adhere to the law when they respond to a 911 call involving an illegal drug overdose.

Overall, Meadows said the entire department will work on getting out into the community and getting in touch with citizens on a regular basis. Officers will also be busy with more quality training and more advanced training to prepare them for ranking positions in the future.

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Fire Department preparing for Station 4 down the road

By WES MAYER wesley@newnan.com

The Newnan Fire Department is steadily prepar-ing for a major expansion that will greatly assist the department.

Over the next three years, the department is hoping to hire personnel for an upcoming fourth fire station. Right now, the Newnan Fire Department has three sta-tions – Station 1 on Jefferson Street, Station 2 on Lower Fayetteville Road and Station 3 on Temple Avenue. The department plans to build Station 4 on Millard Farmer Industrial Boulevard.

“We’ve run the numbers,” Whitley said, “and the new fire station will take 900 to 1,000 calls to the north half of the city off Station 1 and Station 3. And it will give us a much closer response time.”

In the last six months, the department has hired four new firefighters, and plans to hire until six to nine fire-fighters are trained and ready to man Station 4. Each new firefighter is starting out at Station 1, to become familiar with the city. The plan is to have 17 firefight-ers on duty at all times once Station 4 is built.

Now that the Newnan Police Department has moved personnel out of Station 3 to the new Public Safety Complex, the fire department is going to remodel Station 3 to make it a full-fledged fire station. This includes adding bunks for firefighters, a weight room, a communications room and larger office spaces.

With the Newnan Police Department moving out

of the Municipal Building, the fire depart-ment has considered moving the depart-ments administration into their place. Station 1 will also be remodeled, Whit-ley said, and there are some prelimi-nary plans of connecting the second floor of the Municipal Building to the second floor of Station 1.

T he depa r tment i s a lso happy the new traffic circle is being built on Lower Fay-etteville Road, a short dis-tance from Station 2. Whit-ley said the department hasn’t had any difficulty with traffic circles, and he thinks the new cir-cle will help slow down the traffic on Lower Fayetteville and pre-vent more accidents. O v e r a l l , W h i t -ley said the goal of the Newnan Fire Department is to expand the rank-ing off icer struc-ture and add more personnel.

stay safe and secure.”Recently, on March 16, the sheriff ’s office

reorganized its crime suppression unit, Yeager said. Previously, the crime suppression unit was composed of narcotics investigators, field ops and K-9 units. Now, the narcotics unit has been separated, and the field ops and K-9 dep-uties have transferred to the patrol division to form the E shift.

Before, the patrol division only had four shifts – A, B, C and D, which will still rotate 12-hour shifts. Deputies in the new E shift will be split up and staggered, so there will be field ops and K-9 units working about 16 hours a day. Deputies in the E shift will assist the other patrol shifts, help serve search warrants, work in the justice cen-ter and patrol areas of the county that have issues like burglaries, thefts or

traffic complaints, Yeager said. In addit ion , Capt . Mark Fen-

ninger, who oversaw the field ops unit, became the assistant patrol

division commander under Lt. Col. Mike Kinsey, and he will

help work with all five patrol shifts.

“We’re not really chang-ing the operations of the

sheriff ’s off ice,” Yea-ger said, “just assign-

i ng person nel to different

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Sheriff ’s deputies also recently started car-rying Narcan, an opioid antagonist medicine that helps resuscitate people who have over-dosed on an opiate. Officers are often the first responders to a 911 call, Yeager said, and they need to be able to handle a variety of situations. With Narcan, deputies can potentially save a person’s life.

Last year, the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office also became the first sheriff ’s office in Geor-gia to adopt body-worn cameras for its depu-ties. Now, a deputy’s entire shift and everything they see is recorded using one of these cameras, and the recorded videos can be reviewed at any time and sent to the district attorney’s office as evidence.

These cameras have drastically reduced the complaints against the sheriff ’s office, Yeager said.

In a few cases, when people have complained to him directly, claiming a deputy was insult-ing, aggressive or overstepped their authority, Yeager said he can go back to the recording and see for himself what happened. Sometimes, when he explains to the person that the situa-tion was recorded, that person will change their mind and take back their complaint.

“Many times, our officers will come to me and tell me of all the equipment they have, this [the body-worn camera] is the best,” Yeager said. “As we see new trends, we’re going to take a look at them and deliver the best we can to the citizens of this county.”

PHOTO BY SARAH CAMPBELL

The Coweta County Fire Department’s new maintenance facility is a big hit with long-time mechanic Randy Bryant, who no longer has to work on fire engines out in the elements. Bryant is pictured here with Chief Johnny Teeters.

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Council meetings are held the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Wendell Staley is the mayor, and Clay Cole, Celene Davenport, Der-rick McElwaney and Keith Rhodes serve on the council. Donna Camp is Sharpsburg’s city clerk.

Moreland is known for its history and its lit-erary ties of authors Lewis Grizzard and Ers-kine Caldwell. The Moreland Cultural Arts Alliance celebrates the legacies of both authors and the town’s history through museums, a demonstration garden and events.

The council meets the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Dick Ford is the mayor, and council members are Allyn Bell, Jeff Burgess, David Lee and Troy Payne. Jimmy Haynes is the town clerk.

Turin and Haralson are two of the smaller towns in the county, and they share a clerk, Paulette Brown. Turin’s council meets in the Walter B. Hill Community Center, a restored Rosenwald school building, on the third Tues-day of each month at 7 p.m.

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Haralson’s mayor for several years, returned to that post on March 17. Council members are Scott Beaumont, Bonita Rose-mas and Fred Rudbeck. The council meets the second Mon-day of each month at 7 p.m.

Hara lson , which – l i ke Grantville – straddles the Coweta-Meriwether line, has a Christmas celebration and Independence Day celebration each year. Moreland is also known for a huge barbecue and festival held in conjunction with the July 4 holiday.

A portion of Palmetto is in Coweta County, though most of the city is in Fulton County. The council holds a work session at 7 p.m. on Thursday before the first Monday of each month, and the council meets the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m.

J. Clark Boddie is mayor. Coun-cil members are Michael Arnold, Tara Miller, Laura Mullis, Larry Parrott, Leon Sumlin and Patty O’Hara Willey. Palmetto has a local history museum in the historic depot downtown.

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New development for Senoia in 2015By SARAH FAY CAMPBELL sarah@newnan.com

The picturesque town of Senoia has seen steady growth in the past few years, particularly in its com-mercial sector – even while the rest of the country was mired in recession. The population has ticked up, too.

That growth in population means the city now has to meet additional requirements for stormwater man-agement, and Senoia is about to embark on a tremen-dous undertaking of creating a “regional” stormwater management facility.

The council recently discussed a plan that would pipe all rainwater that f lows through downtown Senoia to the Marimac Lakes park, where it would flow into one of the smaller ponds. The pond, sometimes referred to as the “frog pond,” is on the right of the access road to the park, near the library.

The project will be expensive, and will take a few years to complete. The current price estimate is around $1.8, said Senoia Mayor Larry Owens.

The council has asked consultants to move forward with putting together plans for a “stormwater utility.” This will be a charge on property owners that will help

pay for stormwater management needs. Storm-water utility charges are based on the amount of impervious surface on each piece of devel-oped property. For residential properties, the cost is typically standardized for an average home.

“The stormwater plan is the major thing” going on in the city right now, Owens said.

It has coincided with plans for major development in the down-town area, along Barnes Street at Travis Street.

Developer and movie stu-dio president Scott Tigchelaar plans to expand the down-town shopping district. Plans are for the vacant space on Main Street, between the Masonic Lodge and

By Sarah Fay Campbellsarah@newnan.com

Several organizations can be found in Coweta County

for those in need. For those seeking food or shel-

ter, there are One Roof, Bridging the Gap and the Salvation Army.

Each provides food and limited financial assistance. One Roof and

the Salvation Army can also provide clothing and household items.

The Coweta Samaritan Clinic is a free primary care health facility for those

who make under 200 percent of the cur-rent poverty level. Patients are accepted by

appointment only. Your Town Health/Palmetto Health

Council is a subsidized clinic offering pri-mary care, dental care and mental health care, as well as deeply subsidized prescription drugs for those without insurance. Services are available to patients of all income levels; charges are on a sliding scale based on income. There is also a walk-in clinic in Palmetto in where visits are $40. Your Town Health has also has small offices with various services in Greenville, Manchester, Carrollton, Barnesville and Zebulon.

Those seeking jobs can visit the Good-will Career Centers at the Newnan Main and Newnan East Goodwill locations, or the Geor-gia Department of Labor Career Center. Good-will Career Centers offer free use of computers, scanners, fax machines, printers and telephones. The facilities also offer assistance with resumes and job searches, along with job readiness and preparation classes.

Both Bridging the Gap and One Roof are see-ing big changes in their facilities.

Bridging the Gap recently won a $20,000 grant that will allow it to expand its laundry and shower facilities. The organization has a free food giveaway each Saturday, and serves a hot meal Saturday mornings. Homeless or those in need can visit during regular week-day hours for showers, laundry and hot meals.

“Bridging the Gap is currently serving over 1,000 people a month,” reported

Founder and Executive Director

Alison Wallace. There is one shower and a washer and a dryer.

With the grant funds, plans are to add two more showers, two washers, and two dryers.

One Roof, which also houses the Coweta Commu-nity Food Pantry, has recently moved to a new loca-tion in the Westside Plaza shopping center, at 251, 253 and 255 Temple Avenue.

The new store is much larger, and better vis-ibility has led to more donations – and more shop-pers. Executive Director Derenda Rowe hopes to be able to use the sidewalk and parking lot space for fundraisers.

Cowetans can now come to the One Roof office on food pantry days – Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 4 p.m., to apply for assistance. The separate office space allows things to be more streamlined. You can get a voucher for food from the pantry, and ask about financial assistance.

One Roof provides limited financial assistance. “People ask for financial assistance for rent, utility bills. Sometimes they’re homeless and they need a motel room, so they might ask for that,” Rowe said. “We try to help with as many things as we can.”

One Roof can also help provide household items from the thrift store, as well as provide clothes and personal care products like soaps and shampoo. Baby items such as diapers and wipes are also avail-able in the food pantry.

For information on local need-based nonprofits, contact the individual organizations.

• One Roof/Coweta Community Food Pantry: 251, 253, 255 Temple Avenue, Newnan. www.oneroofout-reach.org . 770-683-7705. One-roof@hotmail.com

• Bridging the Gap: 19 First Ave., Newnan. www.btgcommunity.org . 770-683-9110.

• Your Town Health: 643 Main Street, Palmetto. 770-463-4644. www.yourtownhealth.com .

• Coweta Samaritan Clinic: 137 Jackson Street, Newnan. 770-683-5272. www.cowetasamaritan-clinic.org . Info@cowetasamaritanclinic.org .

• The Salvation Army: 670 Jefferson Street, Newnan. 770-251-8181 .

• Goodwill Industries of the Southern Rivers career centers: Newnan West: 228 Bullsboro Drive, Newnan. 770-254-8480. Newnan East: 3121 E. Hwy. 34 Newnan (Thomas Crossroads). 678-854-6839.

• Newnan Career Center of the Georgia Department of Labor: 30 Bledsoe Road, Newnan. 770-254-7220.

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French Market Antiques, to become a pedes-trian walkway with f lanked with shops on either side. French Market itself will be demolished. Loft apartments will be on the upper floors.

The walkway will lead to Barnes Street where there will be a courtyard, a fine dining restaurant, commercial buildings and more loft apartments. Currently, there is a shortage of available retail space downtown.

At the rezoning hearing in December, Tigchelaar said the project would “really make Barnes, at least the lower half of it, kind of like a second Main Street.”

Civil engineering for the project is cur-rently under way and “we are working on get-ting our blueprints finalized,” Tigchelaar said. He hopes to have the entire project completed by fall, or at least by Christmas.

“It’s going to add a huge new dynamic to the downtown,” he said. “It’s going to add some much-needed retail space, and for the first time it’s going to bring loft living to down-town Senoia.”

Because the entire stormwater project won’t be done in time to serve the new Barnes Street development, the stormwater will temporarily be piped to the stormwater pond on the Gin Property.

The other major thing going on in Senoia is the development of the new Leroy John-son Park. The large recreation facility, on the outskirts of town, is being built by Coweta County, and will feature baseball fields, multi-purpose fields, a gym and tennis courts, in two phases.

“It’s an exciting project,” said Owens. The first phase is set to open in the fall or 2016 or spring of 2017. Once the park is open, the existing Leroy Johnson Park on Howard Road

will close, and it has the potential to be used as an industrial site.

There will be more commercial devel-opment coming along Ga. Hwy. 16. A new multi-tenant building is under construc-tion in the Cumberland Village shop-ping center, and the new Cumberland Village West is being built across the highway.

“We’re trying to encourage some growth out on 16. Things that don’t necessarily fit downtown,” Owens said.

Residential growth is also starting to pick up. A new phase of Heritage Point is getting started, as is new subdivision Fieldstone, adjacent to Leroy Johnson Park. And the city has just annexed 35 acres on Morgan Road for a new resi-dential development.

Film wise, Senoia contin-ues to be the major set for “The Walking Dead,” and fans continue to pour in to see where the show was filmed.

Most of the Gin Prop-erty development has been walled in to serve as the walled safe zone of Alexan-dria in the show.

The current permit allow-ing the wall and the asso-ciated road closures lasts through the end of 2016.

“ ‘ T he Wa l k i n g D e ad ’ doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere in the foreseeable future,” said Tigchelaar, who lives inside the wall. “They’ve built a significant set in down-town Senoia so we hope they’re with us for the long term … we love them.”

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Building blocks in place for more fun

for all ages in CowetaBy Bradley Hartsell

bradley@newnan.com

Newnan and Coweta County continue to grow, and what was

once a rural way of life is quickly becoming something close to the

hustle and bustle of a big city like Atlanta.

Newnan has been dubbed a “medical mecca,” with a Cancer Treatment Cen-

ters of America facility being located just off Hwy. 34. Senoia has become a tour-

ist destination for the most popular cable drama of all time, “The Walking Dead.”

A college campus, the University of West Georgia, will open in Newnan just in time for

its fall semester.Hasco Craver, business development man-

ager of Main Street Newnan, says craft res-taurants and speciality retail are a “part of the future” for downtown Newnan. These types of businesses will help revitalize historic down-town, according to Craver. Newnan’s devel-opment planners hope the city will appeal to families with an interest in a unique dining experience.

As Coweta continues to diversify, the building blocks are in place to appeal to all generations.

A place like NCG Cinemas in Sharpsburg has become a key destination, as it connects Coweta County with Peachtree City. General Man-ager Larry Cusson says they are always asking themselves, “Why do customers come back?”

For him, being a family-friendly venue is what is most important. They have birth-day party specials, where family and friends can watch a movie and celebrate afterwards with a party themed around the movie.

But beyond special events, even the decor is tai lored to remain family-friendly for those in Coweta County not

wanting their children to see graphic

material.“We want this to be a place for families who

are just wanting to take a normal night out, so we try to have [promotional] items that kids love, like souvenirs. We know Mom and Dad want to bring them to something that’s going to be safe, there’s [promotional] material we get sent that we won’t put up because we want fami-lies to feel safe, and not having their kids see certain things on a new R-rated movie. We’re very careful about what we put up,” said Cusson. “We want everyone to escape from the world if they need to and just have fun.”

While NCG Cinemas is especially concerned with being a place for kids, it’s still a place where teenagers and adults of all ages can enjoy a thrill-ing action movie or a raunchy comedy. Then, of course, there’s a place like Monkey Joe’s, which is geared for children.

“We get a lot of people spending family days here and they’ll tell us, ‘We’ll be back!’” said General Manager Misha Benson, remarking on Monkey Joe’s being a place for kids.

“We’re pretty much the best game in town, as far as the younger kids are concerned. A lot of parents don’t want to take their kids to places with teenagers, because they usually just run all over the little ones. But here, it’s a safe place for kids.”

But Coweta County isn’t a “kids only” retreat, either.

Live music and cold drinks can still be had all over the county, with Zac Brown’s Southern Ground Social Club in Senoia and The Alamo on the Newnan Square, two of the most popular weekend venues. The two bars serve as exam-ples of what is found throughout the county in businesses like Jekyll & Hydes Grill, The Foundry Grillworks, Brickhouse Tavern and Grill and Ten East Washington, among others.

With the building blocks in place for all ages, Coweta County has gotten a head start on “the future,” as Craver says.

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“Our long-term goal is to grow and build a city peo-ple want to live in and raise and grow their families,” said Newnan Mayor Keith Brady. “The things we do along the way go to that.”

Brady said that, in 2014, two projects helped fulfill the long term vision: the public safety complex and the University of West Georgia campus in Newnan. This year, the two major projects are the McIn-tosh Parkway and the Jef-ferson Street/Jackson Street Streetscape.

The McIntosh Parkway Project , originally t it led the East Washington Street Extension, will provide an east-west parkway parallel to and south of Bullsboro Drive.

“The project will provide an east/west corridor alter-nate to Lower Fayetteville Road and Bullsboro Drive,” said Newnan City Manager Cleatus Phillips. “It will also create a direct connection between downtown Newnan and Ashley Park and thus an opportunity for both to ben-efit from each other.”

This connectivity will also help traffic.

“As an additional east/west route, it will obviously reduce traffic along Lower Fayetteville Road and Bulls-boro Drive but exact numbers are difficult to project,” said

Phillips.“The completion of McIn-

tosh Parkway will mean the addition of an avenue from downtown to Ashley Park,” said Brady. “As we continue to grow, this thoroughfare will relieve the flow of traf-fic on Bullsboro and Lower Fayetteville. As a result the traveler in Newnan will see a shorter commute; it seems as though everyone is always in a hurry.”

Reducing traffic is not the only benefit the new parkway will bring to Newnan. It will also include a multi-use path “to encourage pedestrian and biking options between downtown Newnan, Ashley Park, and Cancer Treatment Centers of America. “

“We are also anticipating both new and redevelopment opportunities along the proj-ect route,” added Phillips.

The estimated total cost of the project is $6.9 mil-lion. Newnan previously ear-marked $5.2 million from Spe-cial Purpose Local Option Sales Tax funds and trans-portation impact fees. The remaining balance is covered by a $1.75 million grant from the Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank.

The grant is a l lowing Newnan to complete the proj-ect at one time and not in two separate phases.

Michael Klahr, engineer for the city of Newnan, said he expects the bidding for the project to begin around June, with it being open for travel in Spring of 2017.

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