AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Augusta commissioners spent months on what what would be the biggest SPLOST list ever.
“I do feel like we need to approve it. We got to approve it. If we don’t approve the SPLOST we have to wait how many more years,” said Commissioner Catherine Smith Rice.
The SPLOST’s package’s big ticket item $85 million to create about 300 additional beds at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center, as well as tens of millions for infrastructure and quality of life…