Governor Perdue Announces School Construction Bond Package

As part of his Fiscal Year 2010 Budget recommendation, Governor Sonny Perdue proposed a $318 million bond package to support the construction of classrooms across Georgia.

In his State of the State Address, the Governor noted that opportunity begins in the classroom. The classroom construction bond package is part of the $1.2 billion in projects that the Governor proposed in his FY10 budget proposal, which was presented yesterday to the Georgia General Assembly during the Governor’s State of the State Address.

“This year’s bond package, totaling over $1.2 billion in new investment, will put Georgians to work and build critical infrastructure,” said Governor Sonny Perdue. “In a time that we have trimmed our budget in other areas, we are aggressively increasing our bond package by a full twenty percent over last year. This will take advantage of low construction costs and create an estimated 20,000 new jobs in an industry that is ready to go to work.”

A list of the counties and the amount received for classroom construction is below:

County Amount

Baldwin
$50,964

Barrow
$8,701,289

Ben Hill
$230,000

Bibb
$1,110,249

Bleckley
$6,740,000

Brantley
$870,000

Bryan
$2,580,000

Bulloch
$44,169

Candler
$46,151

Carroll
$807,642

Charlton
$3,640,000

Chatham
$8,573,455

Chattahoochee
$615,000

Chattooga
$261,522

Cherokee
$7,983,293

Clayton
$4,316,934

Clarke
$63,010

Cobb
$41,797,726

Colquitt
$1,615,000

Columbia
$461,457

Cook
$132,816

Coweta
$4,066,772

Crawford
$380,746

Crisp
$6,060,000

Dade
$88,456

Decatur
$55,597

DeKalb
$1,203,680

Douglas
$17,538,982

Dougherty
$142,082

Early
$1,500,000

Echols
$775,000

Effingham
$204,165

Floyd
$2,823,196

Fulton
$22,522,568

Gordon
$4,115,000

Gwinnett
$42,431,993

Habersham
$6,293,972

Hall
$396,285

Henry
$10,562,623

Houston
$1,938,341

Jeff Davis
$1,090,000

Jones
$5,320,000

Lanier
$2,760,000

Liberty
$91,735

Lowndes
$6,084,437

Macon
$503,815

Marion
$10,610,000

Murray
$9,850,000

Muscogee
$67,952

Newton
$8,119,950

Oglethorpe
$2,520,000

Paulding
$10,737,096

Pickens
$369,208

Pierce
$917,667

Polk
$24,710

Pulaksi
$269,214

Quitman
$55,597

Richmond
$3,192,109

Rockdale
$3,327,568

Schley
$770,000

Spalding
$9,266

Tattnall
$276,906

Taylor
$1,350,000

Thomas
$385,721

Treutlen
$18,140,000

Upson
$61,775

Walker
$5,702,355

Walton
$6,168,194

Wheeler
$650,000

Whitfield
$4,481,058

Wilkes
$18,532

Worth
$530,000

City school systems are reflected in their perspective counties:

Atlanta Public Schools - Fulton
Marietta City - Cobb
Rome City - Floyd
Thomasville City - Thomas
Buford City - Gwinnett
Dalton City - Whitfield
Valdosta City - Lowndes