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Commission to vote on new SPLOSTMon, 08/10/2009 - 7:11am
By: John Munford
The Fayette County Commission is expected Thursday to approve putting a one percent sales tax on the Nov. 3 ballot for voter consideration. The Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax would raise up to $135 million over a six-year period, with the centerpiece being a $55 million expense to pay off debt early for the county’s Justice Center. The new SPLOST would begin in April when the current transportation SPLOST is due to expire. The SPLOST election would occur during normally scheduled dates for the municipal elections, but a special election will be needed to open the polls for voters in unincorporated Fayette County. Other SPLOST projects to be funded by the county include $5 million for a speculative university campus, $2 million for an emergency operations center and $3.5 million to replace county fire stations located in the cities of Fayetteville and Tyrone. The county is also proposing to spend $30.5 million on a variety of specific transportation and building projects and another $11 million on unspecified transportation projects. Fayette is also proposing a total of six corridor improvements on New Hope Road, Lee’s Mill Road, Kenwood Road, Tyrone Road, Sandy Creek Road and Westbridge Road. Each of those projects are projected to cost upwards of $1 million. In Peachtree City, the big ticket items for SPLOST funds includes $6 million set aside for street resurfacing and $2.9 million for cart path resurfacing, extensions and construction. The city is also proposing to pay down $2.6 million in debt from the library and airport bonds along with another general bond issue. The city also would spend $2.81 million to pay off a lease purchase debt instrument. Among other large-scale projects for Peachtree City include two cart path bridges at a cost of $1.9 million each: one over Hwy. 74 north and the other over Ga. Highway 54 east. Other cart path projects include $1.14 million for a tunnel underneath Rockaway Road to connect with Meade Field and $1.01 million for the path connections for a tunnel underneath Hwy. 74 south that will be located at the Rite-Aid pharmacy. The Rite-Aid tunnel will be built by the state as part of the highway road widening project due to start later this year. Fayetteville’s proposed SPLOST projects include $1.2 million for bike, pedestrian and multi-use path improvements, $1 million for street resurfacing and another $1 million for citywide grid/connectivity projects. Fayetteville is also projecting to spend $750,000 on intersection improvements citywide, $950,000 on median improvements and $400,000 for a roundabout at Redwine and Ramah roads. On Fayetteville’s “alternate projects” list are $1.94 million for bond debt retirement and another $527,000 to retire capital project loans. Also on the alternate list is $750,000 for a well interconnection project and $492,800 for a streetscape on Ga. Highway 85. Tyrone would receive up to $2.7 million over the six-year SPLOST, with $1.4 million going toward street resurfacing, milling, patching and shoulder enhancement. Tyrone is also expecting to spend $490,000 to pave gravel roads and $485,000 to realign roads. Tyrone also projects to spend $200,000 on miscellaneous cart path extensions and $127,000 on intersection improvement projects. The Town of Brooks would receive $663,000 from the SPLOST, with $250,000 going toward sidewalks and $70,000 to a library renovation. The Town of Woolsey would receive $256,000 from the SPLOST and is proposing to use it on a community center. login to post comments
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