Maybe we ought to vote for the upcoming SPLOST, in that the offers from the school board keep getting worse. At least the March 1998 SPLOST was going to cost us less and they tried to entice us with a two mills reduction in our property tax millage rate.

This current request is like the last, in that they still are very short on specifics, hoping we'll give them a blank check, and we'll have to come back in the near future to fund the overruns, like the last bond issue we gave them that is $14-15 million over budget for those projects.

Plus, if we give this school board a $90 million blank check, we can get a head start on the 40 percent increase in our sales tax. This will result from the second SPLOST we'll have to pass to fund the jail/municipal complex that the federal government will be forcing our community to build.

Besides, if we keep writing blank checks, as wholeheartedly endorsed by the local Realtors and developers, we'll be able to do this on a regular basis to fund the out-of-control overdevelopment they have foisted on our community.

So, if you want to support more tax-and-spend, with little accountability and bring more overdevelopment and crowding in our once beautiful Fayette, vote for the SPLOST.

Carl L. Avrit
Fayetteville

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