Category: community notices

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...