T-SPLOST projects for Barrow listed

After months of regional and state review, 13 Barrow County road projects – including portions of the long-planned West Winder Bypass and two new interchanges on Hwy. 316 – have made it onto the list of projects that could be funded by a regional transportation sales tax going before voters next year.

An executive committee presented to the Northeast Georgia Regional Transportation Roundtable last week its recommended list of 68 projects eligible for funding at least in part with the proceeds of the 1-percent T-SPLOST.

The list won’t receive the roundtable’s final vote until after three public hearings and an Oct. 6 vote of the 24-member roundtable. However, Georgia Department of Transportation officials already have signed off on the list, and it is not likely to change much.

Serving as Barrow County’s representatives on the roundtable are Barrow County commission chairman Danny Yearwoood and Statham Mayor Robert Bridges.

For the full list of proposed projects, see the Aug. 17 issue of the Barrow Journal.

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#1 theonlyoneiknow on 08/19/11 at 08:05 AM [Reply]

So the county will raise property taxes and then try to trick us with a 1% sales tax? Why should I give anybody in the government more money when they cannot budget what they already have? I'm not that dumb. Count me in as a NO vote.

#1.1 Dude YOU ALREADY on 08/19/11 at 11:28 AM [Reply]

Voted on this in March. A little slow on the uptake

#1.1.1 theonlyoneiknow on 08/19/11 at 02:43 PM [Reply]

Sesiously? I guess then we are revoting on it next summer. get you facts straight DUDE.

#1.1.1.1 Anonymous on 08/19/11 at 07:32 PM [Reply]

Can't revote on it. The SPLOST was due to end next year and be voted on next year, BUT you wonderful BOC and chairman decided to hold the vote early in case it didn't pass. They would have a 2nd chance at putting it before the voters before it ended.

The vote passed. THERE ARE NO DO OVERS!

The reason the BOC decided to hold the vote early was because HB240 was in the works. HB240 would have allowed them to use SPLOST funds to pay off existing debt, however you would have had to vote on the SPLOST fund and the referendum to transfer the money to existing debt AT THE SAME TIME.

The BOC and chairman f$$$ed up again. This is why your property tax is increasing!

Dude

#1.1.1.1.1 theonlyoneiknow on 08/20/11 at 06:15 AM [Reply]

I agree but the SPLOST and this TSPLOST are two completley different things. TSPLOST is a transportation bill.

#1.2 r on 08/19/11 at 12:31 PM [Reply]

You must be that dumb. This money won't go to the county gov't. It will go strictly for road projects.

#1.2.1 theonlyoneiknow on 08/19/11 at 02:45 PM [Reply]

NEWSFLASH! The DOT is a goverment entity. County, State, Federal, does it really matter?

#1.2.1.1 r on 08/21/11 at 06:40 PM [Reply]

Look, genius, YOU'RE the one who mentioned the COUNTY, not me. Follow the dots. "I'm not that dumb." Yes you are.

#2 Jack Legg on 08/19/11 at 01:40 PM [Reply]

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil” --Robespierre

#3 The last thing we need on 08/19/11 at 02:47 PM [Reply]

is more taxes. I'll be happy to click the NO next year.

#4 Allah Akbar on 08/20/11 at 07:36 PM [Reply]

Beth,

You are persona non grata.

#4.1 Beth on 08/20/11 at 08:05 PM [Reply]

Funny you attack me, but I didn't even comment onthis....
Allah,
You are an ASSA non grata

#5 Allah Akbar on 08/20/11 at 08:17 PM [Reply]

Ein bier bitte!

#5.1 Jack Legg on 08/21/11 at 02:28 PM [Reply]

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, September 6, 1789

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