Comments on: CSD Provides SPLOST FAQ

By: DeKalb, Dunwoody voting on sales tax, bonds — Peach Pundit

DeKalb, Dunwoody voting on sales tax, bonds — Peach Pundit — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:59:40 +0000

[...] approve the measure, the existing sales tax will expire on June 30, 2012. The Cities of Atlanta and Decatur and Fulton County also will be voting on the [...]

By: DeKalb Parent

DeKalb Parent — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:28:18 +0000

DCSS engaged an outside engineering firm to do a comprehensive evaluation of all its facilities, and scores from those evaluations are what produced the DCSS list of projects. It’s very objective and all the supporting documents are online either at DCSS’s 2020 Vision page or http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/splost-iv.

Just a slight correction to SusanAnne’s comment about the homestead examption: a portion of it outright disappears automatically (by operation of law) without any action whatsoever from any Board of Education. With the school SPLOST, everyone’s property taxes will go up for 2012.

As for Westchester, I saw that Phyllis Edwards was quoted in the AJC a couple weeks ago explaining that reopening Westchester in 2-3 years was likely, particularly if SPLOST funds are available.

By: SusanAnne MacKenna

SusanAnne MacKenna — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:25:39 +0000

The SPLOSTIV renewal must pass in DeKalb in order to collect for all school districts in DeKalb. Failure to pass it, county-wide, will impact funding for DCSS, CSD, and APS.

By: SusanAnne MacKenna

SusanAnne MacKenna — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:21:05 +0000

@TOK – this vote is to continue the tax currently in place. SPLOST is how we are able to raise money to fund our schools. Without SPLOST, your property taxes will go up (the Board will revoke the Homestead Exemption and raise the millage rate). Furthermore, the currently dilapidated state of our school facilities will continue. SPLOST IV continues the work on behalf of our students and teachers. Voting down this source of funding sends the message to our students and teachers that we do not care about them or the horrendous facilities we have forced upon them. The project list is already set and cannot be changed.

If you want to send a message to the DeKalb County Board of Education, vote them out next year!

Follow us on twitter at @SPLOSTforDEKALB. Like our Facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/friends.of.dekalb.education. Get out the vote and help our schools keep improving!

By: smith

smith — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:36:08 +0000

Question about SPLOST referendum:

For CSD to get SPLOST revenue, does it have to pass in:

DeKalb County only?
City of Decatur and DeKalb?
City of Atlanta and DeKalb Co and Decatur?
or some other combination