Council Decides How Potential TSPLOST Proceeds Will Be Spent
City stands to receive $1.5 million over 10-year period should TSPLOST pass in July.
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Though the outcome of the July 31 Transportation Investment Act referendum is far from certain, Dacula City leaders have already decided how their share of the 1-percent transportation sales tax (TSPLOST) will be spent.
The Dacula City Council unanimously voted to take any TSPLOST revenue, leverage it with Dacula’s regular special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) funding and accelerate the city's 5-year transportation plan. Should TSPLOST pass, estimates place the city’s share of the proceeds at $1.5 million over a 10-year period.
In other business, the council authorized the city to issue a bid for street repairs in Freeman Walk Subdivision. The proposed repairs would include adding two inches of topping. The existing streets were never topped and have insufficient binder asphalt and base, said City Administrator Jim Osborn. The repairs will be funded through the city’s special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST).
Catherine S
10:12 pm on Thursday, June 7, 2012
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Chester Hale
7:40 am on Friday, June 8, 2012
While there are many projects on the list I would like to see completed, I cannot support TSPLOST. Gwinnett has voted against rail repeatedly yet it was put in this package anyway. Thank you but no thank you.
stoptsplost
9:34 pm on Friday, June 8, 2012
VOTE "NO" on TSPLOST on July 31, 2012
NO NEW TAXES - this is a new tax that has never existed before. DON’T VOTE A NEW TAX ON YOURSELF.
INCREASES THE SALES TAX ON FOOD, electricity and other essentials to build new roads. Ups sales taxes from 7 to 8 % for TEN years. No effect on gas tax or other transportation related activities.
ONLY 1/4 OF TAX COLLECTED IS RETURNED to the county. The rest goes to GDOT to build roads around the region mostly in urban, and not rural areas.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Creates a new level of government between the State and the County: Regional Transportational Authority that is not accountable to the People.
To help stop the TSPLOST go to www.StopTSPLOST2012.com
Jimmy Orr
7:02 am on Saturday, June 9, 2012
@Chester Hale. Great post. TIA-M-001 to TIA-M-014 MARTA State of Good Repair and Station Enhancements (Consolidated) are MARTA projects on the TSPLOST constrained projects list in the amount of $600,000,000. The $600 million incudes the upgrades of existing escalators in existing MARTA rail stations. The ongoing maintenance, repair, and upgrades to escalators in MARTA rail stations should have been budgeted in their ongoing O & M costs from day one. In the course of one month I will have traveled on most all of the interstate network in Metro Atlanta. I have yet to see anyone commuting to and from work on an escalator. VOTE NO!
Margie Spencer
8:12 am on Saturday, June 9, 2012
Can we really trust the GDOT propaganda machine? Will the projects be done in ten years or will we be forced to renew the tax? Shouldn’t GDOT have to earn our trust before we give them an additional eight billion dollars? Some will say it’s better than doing nothing, but I would rather do nothing than give hard earned money to a proven failure.
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