GAINESVILLE - With a 38 percent (corrected) turnout, Hall County voters Tuesday overwhelmingly said "yes" to extending the one-percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.
Over 70 percent said they wanted the SPLOST extension which will fund a variety of projects, including a new jail and a communications system.
County commission chairman Gary Gibbs was pleased with the outcome, but somewhat surprised at the margin by which the propsoal passed.
Gibbs says the county will move forward as quickly as possible to get a new jail underway.
"We will begin immediately now to finish up the engineering design and move forward as quickly as we can with the land acquisition and get the jail underway," Gibbs said.
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES & FLAG VOTE
Although John Kerry won Georgia's Democratic Presidential Primary, in Hall County John Edwards took 57 percent of the vote to Kerry's 33 percent.
In the non-binding flag referendum, 79 percent of Hall County voters want to keep the current state flag, mirroring the statewide vote on the flag.
Wednesday
January 8th, 2025
12:55PM
