Vote March 20th Won’t Be Too Taxing
If you live in Fulton or Dekalb County, get on your voting shoes, because there is an election Tuesday, March 20. For most people, the vote is about re-authorizing a SPLOST for local schools. If you don’t vote here, you can’t complain about your taxes. Vote on this and you have a license to complain. You can also make sure there is enough money to keep schools from crumbling.
If you live in Chamblee, however, you have more to vote for. There is a City Council election. Barry Finley and Dan Zanger face off. Zanger has been on the Recreation Advisory Committee for the city. Finley has been on the City’s ethics board. Voting is 7 to 7 PM and will take you less than 10 minutes. Just do it.
March 16th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
The wikipedia entry isn’t entirely accurate, the law has been changed significantly in recent years.
But to clarify:
The ballot question in DeKalb is for an E-SPLOST, Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, which is used to pay for capital projects built by school systems and requires that each school system within a county (in the DeKalb situation, the County school system and the independent school systems of Decatur and Atlanta) adopt a resolution calling for the referendum. See Georgia Constitution Article 8, Section 6, Paragraph 4. Because state law prohibits government money from ebing spent to influence the result of a referendum election, it is very hard to track down information on what projects will be paid for by the tax.
March 16th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Here’s a link to a good Q&A link for the E-SPLOST for Decatur residents from the City Schools.
http://www.decatur-city.k12.ga.us/fyi/fyi43_files/SPLOST_Q_&_A.pdf
March 18th, 2007 at 2:08 am
Please, please tell me this isn’t true about DeKalb’s SPLOST III:
-$66 million will go to in leftover debt from SPLOST II
-$25 million will go to unfinished projects from SPLOST II