The 2004 and 2009 SPLOSTs will have raised an estimated half-billion dollars combined by the time collections on the 2009 program ends in December 2014. Here is a breakdown of some of the biggest projects.

2004

FINISHED

PROJECT/COST/COMPLETION

Virginia Burton Gray Recreation Center/$8.7 million/ Mar 2006

Carl Rhodenizer Recreation Center /$7.7 million/ Dec 2008

Jim Huie Recreation Center/ $3.6 million/ Jul 2006

Steve Lundquist Aquatic Center/ $388,630/Jul 2006

Charley Griswell Senior Center/$6 million/Jul 2006

South Clayton Recreation Center/$7.9 million/Dec 2012

UNFINISHED

District 4 recreation center/ $8.3 million/ $476,850/

Recreation center at-large/ $8 million/ Not started

2009

FINISHED

Juvenile Justice Center (Level 1)/$14.9 million/ Aug. 2012

SW Police Precinct/$1.2 million/March 2013

Fire Department Apparatus/$1.6 million/June 2011

NE Clayton Branch Library (Forest Park)/$3.4 million/Dec. 2012

UNFINISHED

Countywide public safety digital network/$23 million/$7.1 million/March 2014

Animal Control Facility (offices/kennels)/$4.1 million/$63,612/Dec. 2014

Multipurpose fire Department (training) building/$4.5 million/$98,512/Nov. 2014

Renovation of (Lovejoy) Correctional facility/$1.5 million/$11,901/Not stated

Parks and Recreation administration/operations center/$1.9 million/$0/Not stated

SW Senior Center/$8 million/$0/Not stated

NE Senior Center/$8 million/$0/Not stated

Improvements of existing libraries/$1 million/$465,966/Not stated

NE Police Precinct /$2.1 million/$740,012/July 2014

NW Police Precinct/$2.1 million/$0/Not stated

County Fueling Center /$3 million/ $135,005/Jan. 2015

County records center building/$1.8 million/$0/Not stated

Source: Clayton County Board of Commissioners, Finance Department

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