Will Voters Be Asked to Approve a New SPLOST?

It has been less than a year since voters in metro Atlanta soundly rejected a transportation sales tax.

Now, Gwinnett County voters may face a similar choice in 2013. The current countywide Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax program expires at the end of the year. If voters want new projects in transportation, public safety or new buildings, they'll have to vote "yes."

But will voters get the chance?

County leaders have made no final decision, and that decision is not theirs alone. Leaders of Gwinnett cities must be in accord with county leaders on how SPLOST monies would be spent before such a vote can take place.

Gwinnett Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash said that more discussion on the matter probably would be held "as we head into summer."

Would you vote to extend the SPLOST? Let us know in the comments.

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