At a meeting in May, Hall County Commission Chairman Dick Mecum, left, and County Commissioner Billy Powell, right, listen to Jock Connell as he outlines a time schedule for a possible SPLOST VII for the county.
GAINESVILLE - City and county leaders will meet again next week to discuss the upcoming Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) referendum in Hall County.<br />
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The meeting will be held Monday at 2:00 at the Hall County Government Center.<br />
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The referendum on extending the tax is scheduled for next March.<br />
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At one such meeting in May, Jock Connell, a former Gwinnett County Administrator and former interim Hall County Administrator, who is assisting local governments with coordinating the penny sales tax referendum, said should SPLOST VII pass there's a plan in place to form a Citizen Advisory Committee. Connell said this would allow the public to continue to have oversight of any SPLOST projects. (See earlier story. Link below.)<br />
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Meanwhile, another in a series of public input meetings on the referendum will be held at 5:00 Thursday at the county government center.<br />
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(AccessNorthGa.com's B.J. Williams contributed to this report.)
