After the November election, he attended an all-day orientation program for new legislators in Atlanta. Then he went to Athens in early December for a three-day educational program for legislators hosted by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia, which covered "basically all the major topics that are facing Georgia ... from the lottery to transportation," he said.
A market study and analysis will begin in January, said Tommie Shepherd, a public services associate with the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government, and those results will be presented in March or April. Feedback from the Catoosa County Public Facilities Authority Board will be collected then as well.
Georgia's Research & Development Tax Credit has not been a good investment when it comes to quantifiable dollars and cents, according to a new audit. But the program is paying off in intangible ways, the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia concluded in a report commissioned by the state Department of Audits and Accounts.
