SPLOST extension wins easily

Thu, 03/23/2006 - 4:43pm
By: John Thompson

By 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night, Coweta County officials were breathing a lot easier.

With all the votes counted, the county’s proposal to extend the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax easily passed by a 62-38 margin. Voters approving the proposal totaled 3,049, while 1,867 voted against it. Just under 9 percent of Coweta’s 55,813 voters cast ballots in the election.

The margin was a lot larger than many long-time politicos in the county predicted, but the extension of the tax allows the county to move forward with a number of projects.

The county projects $127 million would be raised from 2007-2012 and be used for a variety of capital improvements, including bridges, roads and new county facilities.

The lion’s share of Coweta County portions of the money would go towards road and intersection improvements. Nearly $54 million is alloted to rehabilitate such intersections as Lora Smith and Lower Fayetteville Road, Mary Freeman and Poplar Road and Macedonia Road and Ga. Highway 16. The county would receive $86 million of the funds, while the municipalities would share the remaining $41 million.

The city of Senoia would receive $3.5 million in SPLOST proceeds over five years and $1 million would go towards improving the existing town hall and police departments or replacing them.

The county also plans to use nearly $5 million towards purchasing six engines, three tankers and an aerial platform truck for the county’s fire department.

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Submitted by Get Real on Fri, 03/24/2006 - 10:15pm.

You've gotta love it. More taxes and bigger government. What a country and what a county. Hey everyone...look at Coweta County. If you can't win as a Democrat then achieve your agenda as a RINO. Now if we can only unionize our new immigrant friends who will do all the construction work for the whites and blacks that don't want to work anymore we can gain more power on the left. This is so cool.

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