In a session lasting little more than an hour, the Oconee County Board of Commissioners last night all but wrapped up its discussion of the 2015 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum to be on the ballot in November.
The Commissioners agreed to include $47.3 million in projects in the list that will go before voters, who will have to decide if they want to continue the 1 percent sales tax to fund the items.
The Commissioners made relatively minor changes in the list they tentatively had agreed to back on March 3, before deciding the next night to move the SPLOST referendum from the May 20 ballot to the Nov. 4 ballot.
The BOC is scheduled to take its first formal action on the agreed-upon project list at its agenda-setting meeting on Tuesday night and to adopt a resolution calling for the SPLOST referendum with its list of projects on June 3.
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