More than 50 Dougherty County residents attended a public information meeting Monday night at the Albany Civic Center to voice their opinions and learn more about a special local option sales tax referendum on the Nov. 2 ballot.

The meeting, which was hosted jointly by Dougherty County Commission Chairman Jeff Sinyard and Albany Mayor Willie Adams, consisted of an information session, which covered the history of past SPLOST projects, to SPLOST VI, which will be voted on by the public in November.

Dougherty County Administrator Richard Crowdis and Albany Assistant City Manager James Taylor each presented facts about the sales tax commonly referred to as SPLOST and outlined a handful of some of the 40-plus projects both governments hope to fund over the next six years with the tax money generated.

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