Carroll County approves SPLOST intergovernmental agreement; asks elections board to call November SPLOST vote

The Carroll County Board of Commissioners voted Aug. 28 to adopt an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) with all cities listing projects for a proposed Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) and then approved a resolution asking the Board of Elections to call a SPLOST election in November.

County Attorney Stacy Blackman told commissioners the IGA is the same form considered at the prior meeting but is now in final form because all the cities have approved it and the agreement includes detailed line-item project lists and signature pages. The board voted to adopt the IGA and to authorize the chairman to sign.

Later in the agenda the county attorney presented a separate resolution asking the Board of Elections to issue the official call for a November SPLOST referendum and noted that, if approved, the Board of Elections would meet the following day to issue the call and the notice would be published in the legal organ. Will Hobson of the elections office was in the meeting to answer questions, the county attorney said. Commissioners had no further questions on either item.

Both the IGA adoption and the resolution requesting the call for the SPLOST election were approved on recorded votes of 7-0.

The IGA enumerates city projects that would be funded if voters approve the SPLOST; the elections resolution begins the formal process for placing the tax measure on the November ballot.