Letter to the Editor: Commissioner disagrees with chairman

Dear Editor,

Putnam County Commission Chairman Bill Sharp has said that SPLOST No. 10 is “just” a renewal of the penny sales tax. It is anything but just a renewal.

Approval of the SPLOST referendum on the November ballot includes approval for the County to issue exactly $32,637,752 worth of new General Obligation Bonds. This would be the FIRST TIME in over two decades of the sales tax that bonds ar…