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The special purpose local option sales tax funds a list of county capital projects, paid for by a tax residents continue to pay at the register.
The November 2025 referendum continues the county's 1% sales tax for six years and clears the way for bonds to build a new county jail, paid for with those sales-tax collections.
The town accepted state trail funding requiring a local match and is separately funding road, drainage and bridge work on a connecting corridor using town safety funds and SPLOST dollars.
The county's independent auditors gave a clean opinion on the FY2025 financial statements, but the report shows the solid waste fund again lost money and needed a general fund transfer to cover it.
The city commission's FY2027 budget eliminates money set aside a year earlier for roof repairs on city buildings and scales back City Hall renovation and Ritz Theatre loan funding.
The town's year-end audit confirms the council adopted its FY2025 budget and added funding during the year for police and public-safety gear, while camera-fine revenue swelled the town's reserves.
The proposed all-funds budget would set spending levels for city water, sewer, gas, sanitation and other services for the coming year.
A county-awarded paving job on River Street, which the town must help pay for through SPLOST, is on hold until underground pipe work is done.
The city will pay for the meter reading project with SPLOST sales tax revenue rather than other city funds.
The school board picked a contractor to replace HVAC systems at Fairview Elementary, funded by ESPLOST dollars rather than new taxes.
A restoration project the city council set in motion in 2024 could be funded largely by a state transportation grant, under a financing plan city staff have outlined but not yet put to a vote.
Voters casting absentee ballots or voting early for the SPLOST, municipal and Public Service Commissioner election have a single drop box location and set hours and deadlines to follow.
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