Cherokee County Commissioners Tuesday night voted to re-affirm support for alternative Homestead Option Sales Tax legislation which didn’t advance in the Georgia legislature a year ago. The proposal would allow for collection of an additional one percent at the point of sale, with proceeds being used to provide substantial property tax relief for homesteaded residential property. The money generated could also be used for non-homesteaded residential and commercial property tax relief.
Under HB 548, any such tax plan would have to be approved in a referendum. The bill didn’t get out of the House last year and the commission wants the Cherokee legislative delegation throw its weight behind the proposal to help move it along during the 2016 session.
Commissioners also voted to award a $10,950,000 contract to Reeves Young, LLC of Suwanee to develop Cherokee Veterans Park on a 149-acre site off Ga. 20. Parks head Bryan Reynolds says phase one will include three multi-purpose sports fields, a skate park, tennis and pickleball courts, a playground, paved walking paths and other amenities. And the commission approved low bids by Lovvorn Construction to build two county fire stations in Ball Ground and Holly Springs.
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