Clarke Road Money Program

More than 13,300 voters cast a ballot on the referendum with 9,485 signing up to go on the TSPLOST ride and 3,482 telling the referendum to hit the road, according to results provided by Athens-Clarke County Board of Elections. “It’s a terrific result and something great for the community,” said Mark Ralston, president of the nonprofit Firefly Trail Inc., which advocated for the trail’s inclusion on the TSPLOST referendum.

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Simple Traffic Light Plc Program Programs. “I’m thrilled. It’s a great project along with many other great projects I’m happy the citizens of Athens chose to support.” Despite the nearly 3-to-1 victory margin for the TSPLOST, Athens-Clarke Mayor Nancy Denson said she felt unsure about the outcome prior to Tuesday. Denson said she didn’t hear much talk about the referendum before the election and thus had a hard time gauging public reaction.

Shrek Super Slam there. “I had a feeling it would pass, but I wasn’t spending the money yet,” she said. The transportation special purpose, local option sales tax will add 1 percent to the sales tax surcharge on goods sold in Clarke County. It will inflate the county’s overall sales tax rate to 8 percent.

Athens-Clarke County officials expect the penny tax to raise $109.5 million over five years to fund 19 projects. Those projects, and the money earmarked for them in the referendum, included $25.6 million for road reconstruction and rehabilitation, $16.8 million for the Firefly Trail extension project, $10 million for the Oconee Rivers Greenway and $7.1 million for downtown streetscape improvements. “There are so many projects that I think are extremely important for the community, like the (bicycle and pedestrian improvement) project in particular that will bring a lot more transportation equity to Athens,” Ralston said.