Jefferson downtown façade program funds needed

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Jefferson downtown façade program funds needed

Sunday, February 5. 2012

Plans for fundraising and business recruitment for downtown Jefferson were both topics of discussion at the monthly meeting of the Jefferson Downtown Development Authority last month. At the Jan. 24 meeting, Jefferson Mainstreet Manager Beth Laughinghouse reported a total of $3,500 in the façade grant funding account, with $1,000 of this already approved for a downtown business.

“We need a fundraiser,” Laughinghouse said. We need to keep funding this, she added.

Mayor Jim Joiner recommended a wine and cheese event at the Crawford Long Museum.

The group also discussed including live and silent auctions in the event.

Laughinghouse said she would get with the museum director and report back at the February DDA meeting with some possible dates.

The authority also discussed possibly holding a 5K Run in conjunction with the annual Freedom Festival. Laughinghouse said she would get some additional information on this, also.

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#1 why on 02/06/12 at 10:18 PM [Reply]

do they not tear up those horrile medians that keep me from turning and parking to go to business the few left in Jefferson I would go to but getting to them is becoming more an issue with the stupid medians some brain child installed!!!

#2 weedcontrol on 02/07/12 at 05:26 AM [Reply]

I love the new look downtown with the exception of the medians. Weeds are a problem and vehicles can't seem to navigate around them?

#2.1 oh yeah on 02/07/12 at 01:26 PM [Reply]

sure we navigate right out of town! when it is easier to drive out of town then deal with those the choice is simple pedal to the metal leave downtown in the rearview

#3 Cletus on 02/07/12 at 08:01 PM [Reply]

If you can't handle maneuvering around the medians on Jefferson then you probably should not drive at all. I know, I know...elitist Cletus.

I think downtown looks nice and traffic actually flows better in spots.

#3.1 no on 02/08/12 at 01:21 AM [Reply]

the problem is not wanting to have to go around the block to get to where I used to buy products from, easier just to keep going and not deal with the hassle, sorry you probably want traffic circles and speed bumps also! maybe even for Jefferson to return to running speed trap on 129!

#3.1.1 Old School on 02/08/12 at 10:43 AM [Reply]

yeah, you probably hate those speed bumps at Krogers as much as I do

Downtown for life!

#4 rally on 02/07/12 at 11:26 PM [Reply]

Beth Laughinghouse ought to be run out of town IMO. Its Laughable to hear her say they need to hold a fundraiser with so many Americans hurting and their little account has $3500 to its name. Wine and Cheese event Jim seriously? These folks and their socialite buddies need to go. Folks its going to cost us some pain if we change the voted out folks but in the end it will be well worth it and the sun will better shine. Laughing house did a horrible job in the rebeautification of Jefferson and I can't believe how easily the folks have been swayed by her gang. I want the traffic cameras in downtown taken down...this little measly city government has no business on spying on its citizens and was probably included in the restoration project that in order to recieve the funds they must put ex number of cameras in strategically marked places all under the ruse of "Making Jefferson Great" Wake up people the end is near unless we take it back!!!!!

#4.1 Tom Hays on 02/08/12 at 06:36 AM [Reply]

Rally, (nice anonymous name by the way)
As it has been reported in this newspaper before, all traffic changes were designed/approved by the fine folks at the Georgia Department of Transportation. No city or county can make any changes to a state roadway. It has to be the DOT.
As has also been reported in this paper, those "traffic cams" were installed by the DOT and control the traffic signals. They are not spy cameras. Relax please. Take off your tinfoil hat, take your medication and have a few deep breaths. You will be ok.

#5 ok on 02/08/12 at 08:37 AM [Reply]

first if you believe a camera has to control traffic signals your more simple then the folks who ate lead paint with you thought,
sensors can control the lights just fine why one would need video capture devices has little to do with controlling the traffic lights!!!

#6 Thurston Howell on 02/09/12 at 12:26 AM [Reply]

Oh Boy a wine and cheese tasting event at the museum, great idea!!! There will be plenty of parking with all the empty buildings downtown. I bet John Ward has tasted plenty of cheese in his day so he was likely bursting with joy at the idea. Instead of a 5K how about marketing the town square as a ghost town, and draw tourism? With all the empty buildings it is really quite believable. Beth could be a witch that makes business vanish and Jim Joiner could be the Phantom of the Opinion. Oh darn looks like someone already took that idea.

#7 tax, tax, tax on 02/12/12 at 09:31 AM [Reply]

another waste of money, just like the millions spent on the old courthouse. put lipstick on a pig and it's is still a pig. the local governments sure have learned how to suck the taxpayer dry and keep spending money that we don't have.

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