Keeping You Informed

Registering to Vote in the General
Election on November 2, 2010

October 4, 2010: Last day a person may register and be eligible to vote in the November General Election.

You can register to vote in the Gwinnett County Public Libraries.

When you get a library card you will be offered the opportunity to register to vote or amend your voter registration. Postage-paid registration forms are available at all branches that you can fill out and mail to the Georgia Secretary of State yourself.

To be eligible to register to vote, a person must:

* Be a citizen of the United States and a legal resident of Georgia.
* Be at least 171/2 years of age (at least 18 years of age to vote).
* Not be serving a sentence for a conviction of a felony involving moral turpitude.
* Not have been judicially declared to be mentally incompetent.

You can also register to vote by accessing the state of Georgia Secretary of States office and filling out the registration form.

http://sos.georgia.gov/elections/voter_registration

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Pictures of the week:

After years of sitting empty and for sale, the old Craig house on Johnson Road is undergoing extensive remodeling. According to GIS records, a company called HJK LLC in Pell City, Alabama is the current owner.

This Braselton Hwy homeowner is certainly innovative with his grass-cutting chores. The grass in front of the house is cut by pulling two lawnmowers with a riding lawnmower. His large side yard has a post in the center of the yard to which a lawnmower is attached with a rope. As the self-propelled lawnmower cuts grass, it circles the post and each rotation makes smaller circles till the mower reaches the center post - and the yard is done.

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Should Briscoe Field Airport in Lawrenceville be Privatized?

concept artwork from whyprivatizebriscoe.com/
             

The Gwinnett County Commission has authorized $250,000 for an application fee and will be going to Washington DC to meet with the FAA in hopes of privatizing Gwinnett's Briscoe Field Airport.  County officials said they will study privatizing the facility, including having public hearings on the matter.              

Brett Smith, Chief Investment Officer of Propeller Investments, said the Atlanta area is ripe for a second commercial airport.  He stated that he would like to model this airport after the White Plains Airport in Westchester County, New York.  It is our understanding that  the airport would fall under the umbrella category of general aviation.  General aviation aircraft  range from single-engine, two-seat, privately owned recreational aircraft, to corporate jet sized   airliners.  Westchester is served by eight (8) passenger commercial airlines. For more information on the White Plains Airport :  www.westchestergov.com or Westchester County Airport

The Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota. www.cts.umn.edu  has published a study on the Groundside Effects of Air Transportation.    Conclusions from this report indicate that regional economic needs and wants override local economic, social, and environmental needs and wants.   Read the report to find out more about the groundside effects of air transportation on communities.       

According to whyprivatizebriscoe.com, the types of airplanes that Propeller Investments is anticipating flying in and out of Briscoe Field would be the MD90, the Boeing 737-700, the Airbus A-319, and the Boeing 717.

Planes currently using Briscoe Field	Anticpiated planes using Briscoe Field
Cessna 206	Airbus A-319
Gulfstream II	Boeing 717
Learjet 24D	Boeing 737-70
Global Express	MD-90