The Cobb Board of Education will consider a resolution to establish a November referendum for another Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax extension when it meets on Thursday.
The board also will be asked to fund more than $300,000 toward the completion of a robotics lab at Walton High School in East Cobb.
The board has two public meetings Thursday, a work session starting at 12:30 p.m., and a voting meeting at 7 p.m.
Public comment periods will take place at the start of both meetings.
There also will be a closed executive session and public tax digest hearing starting at 6:30 p.m.
All the meetings will take place in the board room of the Cobb County School District central office (514 Glover St., Marietta). They also will be live-streamed on the district’s BoxCast channel and on CobbEdTV, Comcast Channel 24.
You can read through the meeting agendas by clicking here.
Earlier this year Cobb schools superintendent Chris Ragsdale announced he wanted the board to call for a SPLOST extension, Cobb Ed-SPLOST VI.
If a resolution is adopted and voters approve a referendum in November, the current one-percent sales tax that would begin anew in 2024 and collect nearly $900 million over five years.
Among the major projects would be a rebuild of the main Sprayberry High School classroom building, the construction of a special events center for the Cobb school district and new annexes at Kincaid, Mt. Bethel, Murdock, Sope Creek and Tritt elementary schools in East Cobb.
An addition and modifications are being proposed for Bells Ferry Elementary School on the draft project list released in May.
Ragsdale also is recommending an expenditure of $307,007 in current SPLOST V funds for the construction of a robotics lab at Walton High School to Prime Contractors Inc. of Powder Springs. The completion date is slated for November.
The board also will hear more details about the American Recovery Plan.
Thursday’s meetings will be the first for the Cobb school board in which the public will be fully invited to attend in-person.
The board has been meeting in person since last fall, with only superintendent’s cabinet staffers allowed to attend, and only one person speaking during public comment at a time.
Thursday’s meetings also will be the first in which members of the public wishing to speak during public comment will be required to sign-up online in advance.
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How about addressing infrastructure first at aging schools throughout the county where classrooms flood every time it rains (Sprayberry HS) and add niceties afterwards, Walton HS Robotics should be at the bottom of the priority list.
Why are they spending money on new annexes at elementary schools when Kindergarten enrollment is down something like 12%?
This sounds like a big waste! They should be thinking about how to get enrollment up before building anything new.