ESPLOST UPDATE: The Coweta County School Board voted, 6 yeses, and 1 no, to place the Educational Special Purpose Local Optional Sales Tax (ESPLOST) on the November 2, 2021 Ballot. The attached is the best detailed budget that has been made public. Whether you are for this continued tax or not please be aware of this Ballot measure for this November. Please get out and vote and most of all share this with your friends and neighbors.
As promised, here is the proposed budget, understand R&M is not a capital project. And, again, I ask how did we do this before ESPLOST?? This tax is not warranted and we must get THE WORD OUT to everyone.
Everyone, it is now upon us, yet for the sixth time, Educational Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (ESPLOST), even after they raised our taxes, based on new home values by 13%. This is where you will determine whether or not we allow the school board to continue their mass taxing of us, the citizens of Coweta. Coweta school system has not seen much of an increase in students over the past years. Enrollment has been around 22,500 students, kind of like zero population growth, i.e., the students that graduate are back filled with new students starting in the system. As you contemplate this upcoming ESPLOST vote, during an off-election time, I would ask how did the school system ever repair buses, HVACs, roofs, etc., without a ESPLOST. Once you give a taxing entity a new tax it will not ever go away unless we stop it and hold our elected officials and school administration to be accountable for what they are elected for or employed for. I will be posting the proposed budget for this new ESPLOST so be on the lookout for it. Please inform your friends, neighbors and colleagues about this new tax. WE NEED TO HOLD OUR SCHOOL BOARD AND ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE...
