Warner Robins Council talks transportation

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The Warner Robins City Council met on Monday with a lengthy

agenda. The council discussed a multitude of items, but really

engaged in discussion on one item in particular, public transportation. The council agreed to solicit bids for what the cost would

be to run the service.

Councilman Mike Davis voiced concerns about diving into a

venture that costs the city money.

Robert Sisa, the city’s community development director, said

that public transits don’t make money and that city officials would have to

decide how much they are willing to invest/lose each year.

“Is it $50,000, $100,000, $200,000?” Sisa questioned the

council.

The council agreed that a transit system is a good service,

but questioned the cost.

Councilman Daron Lee challenged the members of council to

put their best foot forward and do their very best to make public

transportation a reality for the city. Lee noted that money is found to fund

many other projects and that he wanted the same effort to go into public

transportation.

Public transit systems are widely known to cost more to

operate than the revenue they generate.

In other business, the council discussed an ordinance on

coin-operated gaming machines. The ordinance came after a state law changed.

The new law only allows for six coin-operated machines to be in one business

whereas the law previously allowed nine.

The council also discussed repealing its code section 13-47

that deals with the reporting of firearm sales. Under the code section the

city’s gun dealers are required to submit a report to the city of the sale of

any firearms in the city limits.

Mayor Chuck Shaheen noted that repealing the code section

doesn’t change the fact that dealers must still report sales on the state and

federal level.

“Basically this was just

additional paperwork, said police chief Brett Evans.

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