County To Spend Nearly $9 Million From Sales Tax Revenue

Oconee County will spend $275,000 out of Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax revenues for a variety of facilities projects in the upcoming fiscal year, including for heating and air conditioning replacement at the Oconee County Library and at the Government Annex.

Alex Newell, management analyst with the county, released details of facility projects to be funded by SPLOST to the public and the Board of Commissioners at the Board meeting on Tuesday evening.

The $275,000 is part of $8.8 million in spending from the citizen-approved special tax that is incorporated into the Fiscal Year 2019 budget.

The $8.8 million in spending encompasses most–but not all–of the project categories in the 2015 SPLOST referendum approved by citizens.

At the beginning of the meeting on Tuesday evening, Board of Commissioners Chair John Daniell praised the work of citizen Russ Page on behalf of the farmland protection program run by the county and funded by SPLOST revenue.

Daniell noted the opportunity for citizens to show their appreciation to Page and his wife, Joan, who are moving to North Carolina, at a drop-in session from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday at the Cotton Gin on SR 15 south of Watkinsville.

Daniell also announced the next Town Hall Meeting to be held by the Commission will be on July 10 in Room 522 at the University of North Georgia campus off Experiment Station Road. The meeting will start at 6 p.m.

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

Pictured: John Daniell