Twice over the past two weeks, county officials have met to discuss the 2012 Special Purpose Local Sales Tax that will go before voters in eight months.
At a meeting Tuesday morning, there were apparently more questions raised than answers given.
CFO Rose Kisaalita told the Barrow Journal on Wednesday morning that it isn’t clear whether the new SPLOST cycle will run for five or six years.
To have a six-years cycle, there must be a state-designated “Tier 1” project being funded from the sales tax proceeds, she said. The courthouse and jail were Tier 1 projects on the 2006 SPLOST, and under consideration for that designation this time is a new health department building.
A health department building was listed for potential funding through the current SPLOST, but no money has been collected and set aside for it.
Questions brought up concerning SPLOST
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Jimmy
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08/01/10 at 09:58 AM
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Well you need to finish what you have started before starting something else. It take someone with a college education to see you all can come up with more ways to spend taxpayers money wastefully. Just like when you moved into your new offices you thought you all needed new desk,chairs,computers,telephones,printers,cell phones. There wasn't anything wrong with what you already had other than it was a few years old.