SPLOST Could Push Cultural Arts Center Forward
A completion year of 2012 highly depends on the special tax.
Powder Springs officials are hopeful that Cobb County's proposed 1-cent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax will pass a March 15 vote to aid in the completion of the city's Cultural Arts Center. With help from SPLOST, they say, the center could open by 2012. The center is unfinished because Powder Springs was "caught in the middle when the financial crunch hit," Mayor Pat Vaughn said. "We needed to wait to raise the money to finish it," she said. "The (volunteer Ford center) board will be meeting to decide to do fundraising in the event that SPLOST doesn't pass." The center is at the Coach George E. Ford Cultural Arts and Community Center on Atlanta Street and is connected to the Powder Springs Library. The Ford center also houses the …
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