AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) - Mayor Pro-Tem Wayne Guilfoyle knew this day was coming, where the commission would no longer have rescue act dollars to balance the budget. “These are the hard decisions we've been trying to make over these past two years, but it has been ignored. It has been fought from my colleagues. They would rather work off emotions that’s not the way to run a business or a government,” said Guilfoyle. On Tuesday, commissioners scheduled to hear the administrators’ 2026 budget recommendation.

The 2025 budget was balanced using more than $7 million dollars in rescue act funds, but those funds are no longer available. “Everything else is going up the respective costs of doing business. Unfortunately, our revenues are not going up so when you have that type of problem you have to f

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