Two groups have had an accomplished quadrennium
The Association of County Commissions and the Alabama Education Association achieved historic legislative success during the past two years of this quadrennium.
Sonny Brasfield
Bill would allow local governments to reduce local taxes on food
The bill stalled in committee last year after the Association of County Commissions of Alabama raised concerns.
Broadband expansion to reach “every Alabama address” within six years
The FCC is mandating 100 percent coverage of internet with download speeds of at least 25 megabits per second.
Sen. Albritton promises to push legislation to reduce jail overcrowding
The legislation would aim reduce jail overcrowding and make the state pay for state inmates in county jails.
County commissioners report: 2015 prison reform led to less prisoners in prison but more in county jails
Wednesday, the Executive Director of the Association of County Commissions of Alabama Sonny Brasfield told county commissioners that sentencing reform in 2015 has shifted more prisoners and the costs of those prisons from state prisons to county jails and county budgets. “I let you down,” Brasfield told the commissioners. In 2015, the state legislature passed … Continued
McCutcheon: Brick and mortar will be part of state’s prison reform
Thursday, Speaker of the House Mac McCutcheon (R-Monrovia) spoke to the Alabama Association of County Commissioners about the prison crisis and told them that “Construction is going to be on the table.” “When you look at the facilities, some of them are so old that it is not cost productive to put money in to … Continued
Senate committee approves gas tax increase
The Senate Transportation and Energy Committee gave a favorable recommendation Monday to a controversial plan to raise fuel taxes by ten cents per gallon to pay for road and bridge construction and for improvements to the Port of Mobile. The legislation, HB1, is sponsored by state Representative Bill Poole, R-Tuscaloosa. Senator Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, is … Continued
Committee approves Gov. Kay Ivey’s gas tax, infrastructure package
Thursday, the state House Transportation Utilities, and Infrastructure Committee gave a favorable report to a three-bill infrastructure and fuel tax increase package introduced by state Representative Bill Poole. R-Tuscaloosa. Poole told the committee that the passage of the legislation to increase fuel taxes was “critical moment in the history of the state in my judgment.” … Continued
ACCA responds to article about resolution critical of Lathan
By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter On Monday, August 28, 2017, Alabama County Commission Association (ACCA) Executive Director Sonny Brasfield spoke with the Alabama Political Reporter (APR) about our story earlier that day on a recent resolution the ACCA Board of Directors passed demanding that Alabama Republican Party Chairman Terry Lathan retract and/or apologize for … Continued
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By Brandon Moseley Alabama Political Reporter Monday, August 21, 2017, State Senator Greg Reed (R-Jasper) and State Representative Connie Rowe (R-Jasper) met with the Walker County Commission six days after voters went to the polls and rejected a sales tax that the Commission had billed as Walker County’s only way to avoid bankruptcy. The voters … Continued