SPLOST VII’s $22 million for a new library and parks and rec goes about 2/3 for the library and 1/3 for parks and rec, and the latter doesn’t all go to parks and rec at Five Points, according to a mysterious red-letter note that has sprung up on the Lowndes County website.
The front page of lowndescounty.com has sprouted this undated and unsigned clarification under the SPLOST VII heading:
Exhibit A (Please note that the $22 million proposed by Lowndes County for the Library and Parks & Recreation, represents a division of approximately $14.5 million for the Library and approximately $7.5 million for Parks & Recreation. In addition, the $7.5 million proposed for Parks & Recreation is not allocated for parks and improvements at the 5-Points site. Parks & Recreation will use these funds for improvements in other areas of the county.)
Exhibit A is the list of projects and estimated costs that includes this item:
- payment of bond debt for acquisition and construction of and equipping a new library facility and parks and recreation facilities
$ 22,000,000
Can somebody explain why the new library and Parks and Rec were lumped together in the first place? At least the county is sort of trying to explain the difference now.
They didn’t include the pie chart with their clarification.
![Revised SPLOST VII Pie](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8463/8109003825_3ebf48f732_z.jpg)
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