1 percent sales tax for transportation: For first time, officials acknowledge it may last more than 10 years

Gwinnett County Chairman Charlotte Nash raised the issue of a second phase of the penny sales tax at a meeting Thursday of the roundtable’s executive committee. Her comment elicited one direct response.

“One question on the table is: What if the next phase is not passed?” asked Nash, who’s elected countywide to head the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners. “The bottom line question, or one of the bottom line questions, is: Where will those costs be covered if there’s not a regional SPLOST for the next 10-year period?”

From SaportaReport, July 21, 2011.  Read the entire report – Click Here.