ESPLOST

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ESPLOST

• Savannah-Chatham County
• Public Schools

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Guiding Principles

• Provide Safe and Efficient facilities for
  students
• Provide adequate facilities in areas of growth in
  county
• Provide comprehensive upgrades to existing
  facilities where most needed

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Guiding Principles

• Provide District-Wide Academic Technology upgrade
• Provide opportunity for significant debt
  reduction
• Provide a revenue stream for facilities which is
  approximately 40 funded by visitors of Chatham
  County

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ESPLOST Update
Other funding such as state entitlement funds or
capital improvement grants may be used in
conjunction with ESPLOST
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ESPLOST Update

• Replacement Schools
• Beach High School
• Butler Elementary School
• Gadsden Elementary School
• Oglethorpe Charter Middle School
• Pulaski Elementary School

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ESPLOST Update

• New Schools (West Chatham)
• Elementary School
• Middle School
• High School

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ESPLOST Update

• Classroom Additions
• Heard Elementary
• May Howard Elementary
• Isle of Hope Elementary
• Largo-Tibet Elementary
• Windsor Elementary
• Windsor High School

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ESPLOST Update

• School Modifications
• Hesse Elementary School
• Low Elementary School
• Mercer Middle School
• White Bluff Elementary School

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ESPLOST Update

• Conversion of Tompkins Middle School into a
  Technical/Career High School

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ESPLOST Update

• Additional Projects
• Academic Technology Upgrades and Additions
• Oatland Island Renovations and Upgrades (Science
  Center)
• Massie Heritage Center Renovations and Upgrades

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ESPLOST Update

• Existing Site Upgrades
• Security Equipment
• Electrical Upgrades
• Flooring / Painting
• ADA Requirement Upgrades
• Mechanical Upgrades
• Site Work
• Specialties / Signs
• Roofing Upgrades
• Local School Requests
• Classroom Furniture Upgrades
• Food Service Equipment Upgrades

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ESPLOST Update

• What is the rest of Georgia Doing?
• 153 of 159 Counties presently utilize ESPLOST
• 145 of 159 Counties have 7 Sales Tax
• Comparable Counties have ESPLOST and 7 Sales Tax
  
• Bibb, Muscogee, and Richmond
• All of our neighboring Counties have ESPLOST and
  7 Sales Tax
• Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Evans, Liberty, Long,
  McIntosh

Georgia Sales Tax information as of July 1, 2006