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Ok(The Center Square) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has transferred greater than $8.9 million from the Governor’s Emergency Fund to a number of state companies, together with millions for public safety and a decades-long battle over water.
As a part of the allocation, Kemp, a Republican, is sending $5.7 million to hide prices — together with suggest charges and litigation bills — stemming from a long-standing dispute over water use within the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River basins.
Georgia has spent millions of bucks at the 30-year-long “tri-state water wars” involving Alabama and Florida. The fight dates to 1990 when Alabama sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prevent it from pulling further water from Lake Lanier and Allatoona Lake for metro Atlanta.
A Kemp spokesman didn’t reply to a Friday request for main points on how a lot the state has spent at the lawsuit.
The governor additionally allotted greater than $2 million to the Georgia Department of Public Safety “to cover costs associated with the crime suppression and security efforts.”
The order additionally sends $186,718 to the Georgia Department of Community Supervision for “costs associated with crime suppression efforts” and $102,388 to the Georgia Department of Defense for “costs associated with civil unrest response efforts.”
Under the unannounced govt order, the Georgia Department of Revenue receives $836,019 to hide prices to put into effect Senate Bill 56 and the state’s contribution to the Employee’s Retirement System of Georgia for eligible native tax officers.
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