Only four people spoke Monday night at the final public hearing on the 2015 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum, held in the courthouse in Watkinsville.
The meeting covered little new ground and was the shortest of the four hearings held since January on projects to be funded by the 1 percent sales tax should voters approve it in November.
The purpose of the meeting was to give citizens the latest thinking of the Board of Commissioners on possible SPLOST projects and to allow the Board to get feedback from the citizens, but two members of the Board, John Daniell and Margaret Hale, were absent.
Both had been advocates for delaying the vote from the May 20 to the November 4 ballot to give citizens additional time to state their views and to give the BOC more time to consider the list of requests for SPLOST funding.
For details of the meeting, including discussion of a reallocation of SPLOST 2009 funds, go to Oconee County Observations.
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