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.