Politics & Government
House-Senate Conference Committee Cut Funding For Bogart Library In Oconee County From State Budget
The library was the only one of seven designated for funding to be cut by the conference committee.
A House-Senate conference committee removed all funding for the renovation and expansion of the Bogart Library from the state budget approved in the final two days of the General Assembly last week.
The conference committee action was taken at the direction of Terry England, R-Auburn, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, according to Sen. Bill Cowsert, who represents Bogart and the rest of Oconee County.
Cowsert is majority leader of the Senate and, in that capacity, had knowledge of the conference committee deliberations.
The Bogart Library was the only one of seven libraries designated for funding in the budgets approved by the House and Senate to be zeroed out in the conference committee.
Rep. Regina Quick, who represents Bogart, bucked House Republican leadership and was one of only 43 Republicans who voted against the HB 170, the Transportation Funding Act of 2015, when it was approved by the House on March 5.
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