Politics & Government
Feasibility Study For Oconee County Animal Shelter On Hold Pending Receipt Of Sales Tax Revenues
Administrative Officer Jeff Benko blamed the delay on collection of revenue from the 2015 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.
Oconee County Administrative Officer Jeff Benko gave a simple answer last week at the Animal Control Advisory Board meeting to a question about the status of the feasibility study for renovation or replacement of the existing Animal Shelter.
Benko told Animal Control Department Director Catlyn Vickers that nothing has been done to date.
Benko blamed the delay on collection of revenue from the 2015 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, which the county only began in October of last year.
The county could take the $10,000 from unspent revenue for county facilities in the 2004 SPLOST or from the county’s General Fund, but Benko did not say that.
The two-hour-long meeting was at time contentious, as the Board adopted a new resolution for the Board of Commissioners to approve setting up the Advisory Board as well as a new set of bylaws.
The Board turned back a request by Vickers that the Board change its composition to guarantee more diversity of membership and revise its statement of duties to underscore the advisory nature of the Animal Control Advisory Board.
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Pictured: Jeff Benko.