Ringgold City Council member Rhonda Swaney received the Certificate of Recognition from the Harold F. Holtz Municipal Training Institute during the Georgia Municipal Association's (GMA) Cities United Summit in Atlanta on Jan. 23.
In Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's announcement earlier this week of almost $408 million in preliminary awards to help provide access to faster and more reliable broadband to communities, households, and businesses, Walton County was one of the recipients.
According to the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia, the feds distributed nearly $6.9 million in "equitable sharing payments of cash and sale proceeds" to Georgia law enforcement agencies in 2020. More than $5.5 million of that was in cash. Legislation introduced last year seeking due process went nowhere.
