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Liberty's SPLOST not adding up yet
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The financial report at the Liberty County Commission meeting Thursday revealed a continuing troublesome trend: the latest special purpose local option sales tax income has not reached projected levels.County finance chief Kim McGlothlin told the commissioners SPLOST has yet to make what it was expected to make since collections resumed in 2017.“I remind you that we need $750,000 each month to meet the estimates for SPLOST. We haven’t hit that yet,” she said. McGlothlin said $4.38 million had been received from the sales tax and that the money went first to retire the debt on the justice center and the rest was passed along to municipalities or used to begin projects like roads. Some engineer fees for planned road work had been paid, she said.The county has a reserve sufficient to operate for two months, McGlothlin said.
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