Jim Durrett, executive director of Buckhead Community Improvement District, talked about a statewide transportation referendum.
The state of Georgia is giving people the opportunity to vote on whether to increase the sales tax by one cent per dollar over a 10 year period in order to pay for various transportation projects in each region, said Durrett.
That money will be spent on specific transportation projects that the citizens will get a say in as well. There are 157 projects in the North Metro Atlantic region, which Cobb is a part of. 85 percent of the money raised from the penny tax will go directly to the regions projects. The other 15 percent will go to local transportation projects, said Durrett.
Approximately 51-52 percent will go to transit, public transportation. There will be major improvements of bottlenecks, including the one at I-285 and I-20.
“Personally I really like it a lot, because I like to bike, I like to walk, I like to take transit and leave the car in the garage, and there are going to be investments in that sort of thing,” said Durrett
On July 31, registered voters in the state of Georgia will come together and say yes or no on this referendum.
Those who wish to find more information can go to transformatlanta.com
Also in this meeting:
SGA conducted a vote amongst the senators and the executive members as to whether or not to use $2,000 out of their budget to fund an in-ground gravestone for the Fallen Owl Memorial statue with a quote on it written by Jared Campanella. For more information, see (MICHELLE: whatever page the Fallen Owls story is on)
