Macon City Council unanimously approved $18 million in bonds Tuesday night to jump-start several big projects even before special purpose local option sales tax funds start flowing in a few months.

The resolution authorizes spending bond money on Second Street, an 800 megahertz emergency system, the Macon Centreplex, Fort Hawkins, the Tubman African American Museum, public safety equipment, storm water system repairs, street repaving and work on Rose Hill Cemetery and Bowden Golf Course.

According to financial adviser David Lucas of Sterne Agee, the bonds could be sold and money in hand by mid-March.

For more on this story, see Wednesday’s Telegraph.