Politics & Government
Report Outlines Spending For Oconee County 2004 And 2009 SPLOST Projects
The report shows spending and expected income in 2009 running even, but money remains unspent from 2004.
By the end of the last fiscal year, Oconee County had spent about three-quarters of the revenue it is expecting from the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum passed by voters in 2009, according to a report just released by the county’s Finance Department.
By the end of the report period on June 30, 15 months of tax collection remained, meaning the county was spending at about the right amount to keep revenue and expenditures from the 1 percent sales tax in balance.
For the 2004 SPLOST, however, the county still has spent only about 90 percent of the revenue projected and only a little more than 86 percent of the revenue actually collected.
The unspent funds from the 2004 tax are for county facilities expansion and renovation.
The county has spent only a little more than $1 million of the $4.6 million it had promised to spend for that purpose, a discrepancy that shaped discussion as the commissioners prepared for SPLOST 2015 and is likely to surface again in newly initiated conversations about county space needs.
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Pictured: Commissioners Margaret Hale, John Daniell and Mark Saxon at meeting in May.