Summary
In the 22-year history of the special-purpose local option sales tax in Augusta-Richmond County, only once has a referendum failed.
It happened Nov. 2, 2004, which was also a presidential election. It was the first time the city government presented a SPLOST package based on a dollar figure rather than a four- or five-year collection period, and commissioners loaded it with pet projects until the total reached $486 million, a figure that would have taken 10 years to collect.See the full content of this document
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Taxes Won and Lost ; Splost Vi: $184.72 Million
"Every time we met, the amount would get bigger and bigger," former Mayor Bob Young recalls. "The people believed the mayor and the commission had gone crazy."
The vote failed, 40,318 to 24,457.Lessons were learned - lessons now being applied in the upcoming referendum, which Mr. Young ...See the full content of this document
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