The board of commissioners have scheduled a joint meeting with the four cities for Tuesday, June 30, at 6:00 pm. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the board’s plan for a transportation SPLOST referendum this November. The meeting will be held at the Henry County Administration Building located on Henry Parkway in McDonough.... Continue Reading →
Henry County commissioners have approved a plan to ask voters to raise the local sales tax in November through a transportation SPLOST. The decision came unexpectedly during a called workshop meeting on June 10. The exact amount of the increase is dependent if Henry County can agree to an intergovernmental agreement with the four municipalities—an... Continue Reading →
Moving Henry Forward recently asked blog followers to participate in a short survey offering their impression on a possible transportation SPLOST in Henry County. The survey’s two-hundred responses suggest passing T-SPLOST would be unlikely. If passed by voters, a transportation SPLOST would increase the local sales tax rate from seven to eight percent. All collections... Continue Reading →
Thank you to those that participated in our survey. Be sure and check out the results. In February, when discussing capital projects, county commissioners mentioned a transportation SPLOST as one possible option to provide additional funding towards transportation projects. Since enacting a T-SPLOST would ultimately be decided by voters in a local referendum before it... Continue Reading →
The Transportation Investment Act, otherwise known as regional transportation SPLOST, surpassed one billion dollars in total tax collections during 2019. The program collects a one-percent sales tax in four out of twelve regions within the state. Many will remember summer 2012 when the TIA referendum failed in nine out of twelve statewide regions, including metro... Continue Reading →
We would like to reflect back on the regional T-SPLOST proposal from 2012 and the projects included in Henry County. This is not done in an effort to persuade voters that it should have passed, but rather to illustrate that the county's priorities six years ago remain priorities now. In many ways, we are in... Continue Reading →
This is part 4 of the GDOT projects series after a joint meeting between Georgia Department of Transportation project managers and the Henry County Board of Commissioners. *** Federal funding was awarded in 2017 to cover right of way acquisition. Preliminary engineering was funded with federal funds in 2015. Federal dollars require a 20% local match... Continue Reading →
