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County staff seek direction on whether to include a "level 1" SPLOST project as referendum deadline nears
Summary
Deputy COO Landry Murchison told the board the county must decide whether to include a countywide "level 1" SPLOST project, which would be paid off the top of collections, and finalized project lists must be ready for the August referendum call.
At the Clayton County Board of Commissioners meeting on May 20, Deputy Chief Operating Officer Landry Murchison asked the board to decide whether the county will include a countywide "level 1" project in the planned 2026 special-purpose local-option sales tax (SPLOST) referendum and outlined compressed timing for calling a referendum.
Murchison told commissioners the SPLOST team is preparing a project list with municipal partners and is using an escalation factor of roughly 3 to 4 percent based on recent SPLOST collections. She explained a level 1 project is a countywide facility limited to certain categories: "it can be a courthouse, an administrative building for elected officials or constitutional…
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