Resident presses county over $20 million gap between SPLOST project costs and collection estimate
A resident asked why a December news item projected $44 million in SPLOST collections while the county's year-end audit listed about $24 million in project costs; county officials said the $44 million is an estimated collection projection over a multi-year SPLOST term and agreed to provide a detailed project list.
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At the Jan. 22 meeting, resident Owen McDonald questioned county officials about a discrepancy between a year-end audit showing roughly $24 million in projected project costs and a newspaper item estimating $44 million in SPLOST collections. "That number went from 24 million to 44 million," McDonald said, pressing county staff for what changed between the two figures.
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