The Haralson County Commission approved an intergovernmental agreement with local cities for a potential 1-cent special purpose local option sales tax earmarked for transportation projects.

A last-ditch effort to send hundreds of millions of dollars in tax incentives to Georgia's struggling Plant Vogtle nuclear project appears to be stuck in the U.S. Senate as lawmakers grapple with the prospect of a broader tax overhaul.

Developers are headed to the Fayetteville City Council to seek tax breaks for a proposed senior housing development near the city's downtown. The developer is asking for a 20-year "pay as you go model." The developers are seeking $2.6 million in funds over 20 years, which represents 10 percent of the property's estimated $26 million investment in the city.

The Atlanta City Council (ACC) voted unanimously recently to allocate $26 million in bonds to help finance a project aimed at homelessness, achieving a promise made by Atlanta's mayor Kasim Reed during this year's State of the City address. The ACC will float a bond to raise the funds and will pay it off from distributions from tax-allocation districts and general fund dollars.

One of the biggest potential job-creating bonanzas in the country, a giant new auto plant proposed by Toyota and Mazda, began in secret with a mysterious code name. Now it has become a full-blown race among states to try to reel in the $1.6-billion project that will create 4,000 good-paying direct jobs and thousands of other indirect jobs.

City officials are working on getting the financing necessary to complete some long-planned street projects downtown and in east and west Savannah, Georgia. These projects include the widening of Gwinnett Street, streetscaping work along Broughton, Bay and River streets, and Waters Avenue corridor improvements, which amount to a total investment of at least $25 million.

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