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Half Cent Sales Tax Watchdog Group Elects New Chair
December 29, 2013
Alvin Wingate has been elected as chairperson of the Escambia County School District’s One-Half Cent Sales Tax Watchdog Committee for the current school fiscal year, and Ashley Bodmer has been elected vice chair.
The One-Half Cent Sales Tax Watchdog Committee is tasked with ensuring that all referendum funds are used for school capital projects such as the construction and support of Escambia County schools. The first five-year program was voter approved in 1997 followed by a second in 2002. In 2007, voters overwhelmingly voted for a 10-year extension of the tax. The One-Half Cent Sales Tax Watchdog Committee is charged with ensuring that only those projects voted for in the referendums are undertaken.
Funds provided by this sales tax referendum built Blue Angels Elementary School and Global Learning Academy; provided many security enhancements; the modernization of several schools; continued HVAC and roofing updates as well as media centers and athletic facilities. Current sales tax funded projects include the reconstruction of Ernest Ward Middle School and A. K. Suter Elementary School.
Wingate has been a member of the committee since its inception in 1997.
The committee meets bi-monthly. The next meeting of the One-Half Cent Sales Tax Watchdog Committee is scheduled for January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m., in the Superintendent’s Conference Room located in the McDaniel Building, 75 North Pace Blvd.
Pictured: The August groundbreaking for the reconstruction of Ernest Ward Middle School. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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Its good to see our tax money spent on new schools but one thing that bothers me is amount of money wasted on expensive materials. i see this every time these projects bid. High dollar material that does not last and cost a fortune to replace or the
maintenance department just buys non matching / junk to replace it. just look around at any school.