Local impact of federal shutdown expected to be limited » DaltonDailyCitizen.com

While scenes of the federal government shutdown dominate the national headlines, many local officials don’t expect it to have much of an impact on the services they provide or their operations.

“It should not directly affect us,” said Murray County Sole Commissioner Brittany Pittman. “We do have some grant dollars (for economic development) that we have applied for. The shutdown could slow down that process, especially if it goes on for some time. And we do have Carters Lake. That’s operated by the Army Corps of Engineers, and they have closed down the public areas.”

Dalton City Administrator Ty Ross said the shutdown could affect work being done under a federal contract to remove trees from the flight line at Dalton Municipal Airport.

“We still don’t have a notice to proceed from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration),” he said. “If this drags out, we might see a delay there. But that’s the only impact that I am aware of.”

Whitfield County Administrator Mark Gibson said the shutdown hasn’t had any impact on county operations yet.

“At this point we are fully functional. Should the shutdown be prolonged and the federal agencies that distribute funding to local governments such as our own be slowed or stop completely then it certainly would,” he said.

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