Stephens Co Voters Pass Next E-SPLOST
Stephens County voters have passed another Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax referendum.
Voters approved the E-SPLOST referendum in a special election last Tuesday.
The E-SPLOST resolution will allow the school system to continue to collect a one percent sales and the purpose of financing certain capital outlay projects for educational purposes.
The one percent sales tax will automatically end if the school system reaches $26 million of net proceeds by the tax.
789 Stephens County residents voted in favor of the resolution with 262 voting against it.
And in the Town of Martin, voters re-elected two city councilmen.
Incumbents Roger Looney and Sandy Stovall were re=elected over challenger Diane Cole.
When the votes were counted
Looney received 41 votes, Stoval received 37 votes and Cole received 30 votes.