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SPLOST estimate increases to $78M; council debates elevating fire station rebuilds to Tier 1
Summary
Staff said county adjustments added $20M to the SPLOST estimate (from $58M to $78M); staff’s Tier 1 list totals $69M leaving about $9M of capacity. Council members urged moving Fire Station 55 ($9.6M) and Station 52 ($1.2M) into Tier 1, with implications for prioritization and trade-offs.
During the public-works/SPLOST discussion, Speaker 7 reported that county staff agreed to move radio costs onto the county-side budget, freeing about $4,000,000 and, overall, increasing the SPLOST estimate by $20,000,000—from $58 million to $78 million. Speaker 12 said the staff-proposed Tier 1 list sums to about $69…
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