City of Toccoa Approves Joint Funding For Sewer Expansion Exploration

At their regular monthly meeting, Toccoa City Commissioners approved to use a portion of the one million dollars in reserved SPLOST V funding for sewer infrastructure for a 50/50 split with Stephens County to engage the services of an engineering company to design a sewer collection system for South Big A Road and the Veterans Parkway, also known as the Toccoa By-Pass, to be used to match any state or federal funds that may become available to build or install the collection system.
Stephens County Commissioners approved the 50/50 split at their meeting last Tuesday. Stephens County and The City Of Toccoa each set aside one million dollars out of SPLOST V receipts, for a total of two million dollars, with the money reserved to go towards an expansion of a sanitary sewer collection system down Big A Road and then South into industrial areas in the county.
The two million dollars was a local match designed to obtain eight million in additional federal funding to help build the project. The eight million dollars was approved, but never appropriated.
In early August, the city commission agreed by consensus to ask City Manager Mike Jackson to draft a letter to Toccoa’s representation in Washington D.C. to ask once again about the federal funding.