The results are in. Catoosa County, GA voters have decided to keep Catoosa County’s 2024 SPLOST.
The final vote: 5,798 Yes (60.24%) and 3,759 No ( 39.05%) SPLOST passes.
“You can fool all of the people some of time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”
Attributed to Abraham Lincoln in The New York Times, August 27, 1887
SPLOST stands for Special Purpose Local Options Sales tax and is a 1-percent special tax used for road and public safety.
Georgia Law requires voters to re-approve SPLOTS every 5 to 6 years since its initial approval in 1994.
“This would take effect July 1st; we’re currently in what we call the 2019 SPLOT cycle,” said John Pless, PIO of Catoosa County Government. “It expires at the end of June.”
The special sales tax would collect up to 96-million-dollars from residents and tourists.
“The benefit of SPLOST funds has been to Catoosa County citizens is that it’s allowed to critical public safety and critical infrastructure needs without having to rely on property tax,” said Pless.
