Liberty County voters will decide to extend the transportation special local option sales tax when they go to the polls in November.

The current TSPLOST ends in September 2025 and is capped at $54 million, meaning the tax stops if that level is reached before next September. An extension of the TSPLOST is expected to collect $76 million over six years. The proceeds are designated for road work and improvements.

County leaders and representatives from the seven municipalities met to determine how to split up the possible TSPLOST proceeds.

According to the intergovernmental agreement for the TSPLOST, 43.656% will go to the county, 41.767% will go to Hinesville, 4.066% will go to Walthourville, Midway will receive 1.937% of the proceeds, 6.307% will go to Flemington, Riceboro will receive 0.714% of the sales tax proceeds, Gum Branch will receive 0.232% of the proceeds and Allenhurst will get 1.322% of the tax proceeds.

Voters, if they approve the six-year TSPLOST, also will be approving the county getting $33 million in bonds and the City of Hinesville getting $31 million in bonds to do road work, which will be repaid through the sales tax’s proceeds.

“That will allow us to have quicker access to cash to do special projects,” assistant county administrator Joseph Mosley told commissioners.

The TSPLOST is going on the November general election ballot, after the General Assembly limited the number of times special elections could be held.

“That made us go through the process a lot earlier to save the cost of a special election,” Mosley pointed out.

The current TSPLOST has collected $41 million since it began, and more than $19 million has been spent on projects. The receipts for May, the most current month, were $1.039 million.

In remarks last month to the Liberty County Chamber of Commerce’s Progress Through People, County Administrator Joey Brown said much of the work the county does could not be done without TSPLOST or SPLOST and added the county has about 100,000 people coming through it daily.