School SPLOST Vote Set for March 2013
The Cobb Board of Education approved a resolution Wednesday, but heard a strong dose of anti-tax sentiment.
As expected, the Cobb County Board of Education on Wednesday adopted a resolution to call for a March 2013 referendum to extend the Education SPLOST. But the job of selling voters on a $717 million school construction and maintenance project list figures to be a challenging one, given Cobb's recent SPLOST track record. The one-cent sales tax, if approved by voters, would begin in January 2014 and would be collected through December 2018. But before the vote, representatives of a local taxpayers group and the Georgia Tea Party spoke out against a March referendum. And the chairwoman of the school board's SPLOST citizen oversight panel predicted that the finalized SPLOST IV "notebook" (see attached PDF) will fail at the polls. The board …
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Jennifer
6:45 am on Friday, November 16, 2012
I will vote NO in March. I am an educator, so I care about education. Cobb School Board has not used SPLOST money wisely in the past, so the current school board does not have my vote of confidence. I will not vote to give them any more money to mismanage. It was a very different economy when taxpayers voted in favor of the last school SPLOST. We need greater fiscal prudence going forward. more ›