Tag: aid
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RELEASE: County responds to City of Rockmart’s Automatic Aid Agreement decision
Note: The following release was provided by Polk County officials for publication late this afternoon. -KtE Over the past 12 years, both Polk County and the City of Rockmart have both enjoyed automatic aid for fire services with zero annual monetary payments received by either entity. Polk County has similar automatic aid agreements with other…
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Rockmart City Council votes to end Fire Services Automatic Aid Agreement with Polk County on July 1, 2025, barring last minute negotiations
Note: the following item was submitted to Polk Today by the City of Rockmart for publication. -KtE During the May 2025 meeting of the Rockmart City Council, the Council voted to end participation in the Fire Services Automatic Aid Agreement with Polk County. Barring any last-minute negotiations, participation will end July 1, 2025. The City…
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Rockmart to County: Come to table for Fire Automatic Aid Agreement
City Council votes to call off Fire Department’s Automatic Aid Agreement Since 2013, residents within a five mile radius of the Rockmart city limits have benefitted from an agreement between the County Government and the City of Rockmart. Whenever the tones come over the loudspeakers within the walls of the station at Rockmart Fire and…
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GALLERY: Lusted captures more than 1,000 cats to help stray population
The Cedartown-Polk County Humane Society celebrated a volunteer who has made a real impact on the community’s stray population of cats over the past years. When Pat Lusted moved to Rockmart several years ago from Albany, New York, she was looking to help in some way with pets, and found her calling with the help…
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New trailer ready for supplies at Cedartown Fire Department
Local residents dropped off enough for Cedartown Fire & Rescue to fill up one trailer with supplies for Jefferson County, and now they have another to add to what is being sent southward to help with Hurricane Helene relief efforts. The semi-load of everything from bottled water to cleaning supplies and more was closed up…
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Fire Dept. provides donation to Borden Springs
Local firefighters on Monday made a trip across the border to provide some much needed items to a brother department in Alabama. Polk County Fire-Rescue traveled to the Borden Springs Volunteer Fire Department in Cleburne County, bringing along a load of equipment used by firefighters when they are attacking blazes in homes around the area…
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Georgia Democrats press governor for quicker jobless aid, eviction relief
Beau Evans of Capitol Beat News Service provided this item for Polk.Today readers and others around Georgia. Find more state and political news at Capitol-beat.org. Georgia House Democratic lawmakers pressed Gov. Brian Kemp Wednesday to clear the state’s backlog of unprocessed unemployment claims and reimpose a 60-day halt to evictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In…
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Local leaders across Georgia calling on Congress for more coronavirus relief
Dave Williams of Capitol Beat News Service provided this coverage for readers to enjoy. Here’s the link back to the original item. ATLANTA – A diverse quartet of leaders representing cities and counties, schools, health-care workers and businesses across Georgia are calling on Congress to include local governments in a new economic stimulus package. Legislation the U.S.…