[CPEO-MEF] Georgia prepares for base closure round

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Support groups look at alternatives following possible BRAC closure decisions

By Gene Rector
Macon Telegraph (GA)
December 8, 2004

WARNER ROBINS - Support groups from more than half of Georgia's 13
military installations met in Atlanta on Tuesday to discuss the
unthinkable - how to prepare for BRAC and the possibility of base closure.

The meeting, attended by about 60 people from throughout the state, was
organized by the Atlanta law firm of McKenna, Long and Aldridge and
Hurt, Norton, a Washington, D.C., lobbying group.

...

That prompted a significant discussion of alternatives if closure
becomes inevitable, Tritt said. "Our panelists advised attendees to
begin thinking of a plan B," he said. "You don't have to do it in a way
that shows weakness, but you want to begin the process."

Tritt said that doesn't mean hiring a team of master planners. "But
communities need to get organized about what to do in the event they are
on the closure list," he said. "It will be important to have a local
reuse authority. During the previous four rounds of BRAC, the big
disasters have come when communities did not have a functional,
organized reuse authority to get things together and prevent infighting."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/states/georgia/counties/houston_peach/10363935.htm

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