Commissioner Brian Tam has figured out a way for the city to receive more than twice its population share from the next SPLOST. It’s simple; make the SPLOST collection for the next six years instead of five, and more than double the percentage for the city at an additional $12 million cost to the county...
Commissioner Brian Tam has figured out a way for the city to receive more than twice its population share from the next SPLOST. It’s simple; make the SPLOST collection for the next six years instead of five, and more than double the percentage for the city at an additional $12 million cost to the county.
Apparently Commissioner Tam’s rationale is that the county could also receive more because the total SPLOST would be six years worth rather than five.
According to the Forsyth County News, Commissioner Tam said the county receiving 95.7% (the population share) over five years would not give the county as much money as receiving 91% in over six years. Well duh!
So, the idea is for the county to give the city 9% of the next SPLOST at a cost to the county of $12 million to avoid giving Forsyth County citizens the opportunity to vote on another SPLOST extension in five years. Why, because the voters may not want a SPLOST extension in 5 years? If voters do not want a SPLOST extension in 5 years wouldn’t that mean that voting to accept a six-year SPLOST now is a mistake?
Does this make sense to anyone other than Commissioner Tam and the City of Cumming political leaders?