By Kay S. Pedrotti
Pike county voters will decide on March 15 whether courthouse repairs and road, street and bridge improvements will be financed by property owners alone or by everyone who spends money in Pike County, county administrator Bill Sawyer said last week.
SPLOST vote set for March 15
The commission has set the March election for a five-year Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST), an action authorized by the state for capital expenditures, to raise an estimated $5.4 million for the courthouse and transportation needs. Joy Walker, who heads a local committee for the SPLOST, says “if the extra penny doesn’t pass, the burden will fall on the 9,000 property parcels that are taxed, to do what has to be done.”
“It’s hard to make it understood,” Sawyer said, “that these are not things we just dreamed up and thought we wanted — these things must be done as part of our job as Pike County commissioners and leaders. SPLOST is an equitable way to accomplish the badly-needed courthouse repairs, and the obligation to keep the roads and bridges open and in good shape, without increasing property taxes.”
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“It’s hard to make it understood,” Sawyer said, “that these are not things we just dreamed up and thought we wanted — these things must be done as part of our job as Pike County commissioners and leaders. SPLOST is an equitable way to accomplish the badly-needed courthouse repairs, and the obligation to keep the roads and bridges open and in good shape, without increasing property taxes.”
For more on this story, read the Dec. 29 print/e-edition of the Pike County Journal Reporter.
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These folks will be raising your property taxes
It's hard to believe this paper would announce anything about registering for your homestead exemption ...when you don't have one.
Sonny did away with it almost two years ago raising property taxes.
For too long you been told this will keep your property taxes low.
So for those that believe only Democrats like to tax and spend ...Get ready for the Republican money train
Taxes...User fees, food tax, millage rate,Homestead exemption...look at it all because it will be raised...Watch and See