Health & Fitness
Oconee County Commissioners Get First View of SPLOST Spending for Recreational, Historic and Scenic Facilities
The director of the Oconee County Parks and Recreation Department last week released a proposed spending plan for funds being collected as part of the 2009 SPLOST.
John Gentry, director of the Oconee County Parks and Recreation Department, last week gave members of the Board of Commissioners the first view of a proposed spending plan for funds being collected as part of the 2009 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.
The plan calls for improvements to all four of the county’s parks, but Oconee Veterans Park will be the big winner, with $590,000 of the $880,000 budgeted through June 30, 2016, going to that park.
Most of that money for Veterans Park–$495,000–will go to development of adult softball facilities.
None of the money will go to historic and scenic facilities, though the spending category presented to voters when the 2009 SPLOST was approved had designated the funds as for “Recreational, historic and scenic facilities.”
The tax had set aside $1.1 million for that purpose, but Gentry’s budget is for $880,000 because tax receipts are lower than what was projected when the tax was passed in March of 2009.
For more details, go to Oconee County Observations.