Commissioners Told 2004 SPLOST Funds Nearly Spent For Courthouse

Oconee County soon will have spent the remaining monies from the 2004 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax as it completes work on the $2.5 million expansion of the Courthouse, Wes Geddings, county finance director, told the Board of Commissioners on Tuesday.

Geddings, in his financial update for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2020, said a little more than $1 million in unspent funds remains in 2004 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) account at present.

Geddings included an update of spending from the 2004, 2009 and 2015 SPLOST accounts as part of his financial report.

The money in the “County Facilities Expansion & Renovation” category represents the only unspent funds in the 2004 account, Geddings reported.

The county is sitting on $224,450 in unspent money in the “Recreational, Historic & Scenic Facilities” category in the 2009 SPLOST and $132,137 in collected and unspent money for “Historic & Scenic Facilities” in the current, 2015 SPLOST, according to Gedding’s report.

Geddings said “there’s a plan in place” to begin spending the money for historic and scenic facilities but did not explain.

For more on this story, with a video of the Commission meeting, please go to Oconee County Observations.