Spring Hill Asked to Give Tax Money to New School Construction

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The Board of Mayor and Alderman of Spring Hill will be asked to vote in two weeks on something that all the other municipalities are also being asked to vote on.

The county, in lookng for funding anywhere it can to build new schools, is proposing that the cities raise sales taxes by a half-percent and split the revenues with county schools.

County Mayor Rogers Anderson proposed the idea to the board on Monday night as a way to raise revenue for schools. Last week he asked the same thing of Franklin, and before the end of July he will have asked all six municipalities in the county.

“So far I have gotten a good response,” Anderson said. “Ultimately it is the voters’ decision.”

The exact figure that Spring Hill would give yet is unclear. That will come out at the BOMA voting session on July 17. But Franklin was asked last week to split $15 million out of the proposed new sales tax rate.

The county has been looking at ways to raise funds for schools and new school construction without increasing property taxes.