Voters in Bibb County voted overwhelmingly to approve a special sales tax designed to pay off more than $87 million in city and county debt. It seems now that another special tax to pay for school and technology upgrades and improvements to the school's transportation infrastructure is imminent. Tonight, at the school board meeting one of the last items to discussed was to add a new "bus barn" in the ELOST proposal. The necessity of a new bus barn was validated, but the idea was shot down because the majority of the board wanted to stick with the proposal, as it was, and didn't want to make any changes this late in the process. I thought it was interesting when one of the school system administrators was questioned about finding funding for such a project. He suggested that finding money might not be impossible. I say show me the money... I missed that item in the budget. Maybe there's some extra in the bank.
Note: ELOST= Education Local Option Sales Tax
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