Augusta Voters Narrowly Reject $194.3M Sales Tax Package
Wednesday, May 21st, 2014
Augusta voters narrowly rejected a $194.3 million sales tax package, just the second of its kind to fail since the city’s first special purpose local option sales tax in 1988.
The sales tax failed with 51.1 percent voting against the package. Just 643 votes separated the final tally.
The failed tax package, criticized by opponents for its hasty compilation and lack of funds to improve infrastructure, would have been Augusta’s seventh SPLOST. The city must wait until November 2015 to present it again to voters.
“It wasn’t done right in the beginning,” Augusta Commissioner Marion Williams said Tuesday. “We need to go back and look at that SPLOST again.”
