South Fulton, if you spend $100, $7.75 is your total sales tax.

The 75 cents is the part that comes to the city of South Fulton for T-Splos.

Not only do

residents pay the sales tax when they purchase goods and services here in the city,

but so do visitors, people who work in our city.

We estimate that over 50% of T-Splast, which is close to $10 million a year, is actually paid for by people who don't live in the city of South Holted.

So we see it as a way to help us to fund things that are desperately needed, but not on the backs of homeowners.

Pretty much every road that's been resurfaced in the 10 years that we've been a city has been done with T-Splast.

Bridges have been replaced in every district.

We have put in roundabouts to help with traffic in a number of places where we had traffic fatalities.

And this has helped us to slow the traffic down, calm the traffic.

We also use it as an opportunity of beautifying our community.

So as a resident, how T-Sploss improves your quality of life is imagine waking up in the morning and you leave your home to walk your seven-year-old to school, and you have a beautiful sidewalk wide enough for your seven-year-old to buy their bicycle, or for you to ride your bicycle.

The road is properly paved, so they're not potholes and people swerving out of the way of traffic.

Both of which were passed successfully, and as a community, we have really delivered as you have given us for support, and we have done exactly what you asked us to do with our T-splast hours.

T-Sploss, it's a local sales tax on retail goods and services in Fulton County.

Our Emily McLeod is telling us how it's being used in the city of South Fulton.

Fulton County's transportation sales tax, known as T-splast, was first approved by voters in 2016.

T-Sploss was renewed in 2021, and now Fulton County voters like City of South Fulton resident Michael Venable will decide whether to renew it again this November.

I think I'm somewhat okay.

Only because they're renewing an existing tax that's there.

Fulton County's T-splast is a three-quarter of a penny sales tax that goes towards transportation improvements in unincorporated Fulton County and 14 cities.

Ahead of the election, Venable attended multiple T-splast information sessions hosted by the City of South Fulton.

Just kind of want to see where they're going, the projects to look at them to see how beneficial they were and to see whether they would be appropriate to continue to say yes and let's continue to do some things.

T-sposs is paid by anyone purchasing a good or service in Fulton County, not just residents.

Information from Fulton County's website shows investment by project type, which include pedestrian and bicycle projects, congestion relief and roadway projects, and maintenance and safety improvements.

Well, like everywhere,

we know we have lots of transportation needs, road resurfacing, intersection improvements, bridges, sidewalks, lots of needs, more needs that we could ever fund with property taxes.

City of South Fulton's city manager Sharon Subidan says some of the city's most impactful T-splos projects help with safety.

So sidewalks are also very popular, giving pedestrians a safe place to walk, jog, run, you know, um,

is also really impactful.

Venable says as far as his vote goes, he's leaning more towards yes.

Only because you know it's something that's just a renewal, and it's, you know, it's not a not a new tax per se.

The county says if approved by voters, T-splast is expected to generate approximately six hundred and fifty million dollars for the entire county from twenty twenty-seven to twenty thirty-two.

Fulton County officials say the city of Atlanta is not included in the county's transportation sales tax because it has its own T Splos.

Henry and Douglas Counties, you'll also have a T splash measure on your ballot.

Ask anyone who has sat in traffic on the way to work.

Ask a parent waiting at a crosswalk with a stroller.

Ask a student walking to school on a road with no sidewalk.

They already know the answer because they feel it every day.

Roads are the only thing government touches in your life some days before you've even had your morning coffee.

T-Sploss helps pay for resurfacing, sidewalks, bridges, roundabouts, traffic signals, pedestrian improvements, and safer intersections.

We're taking millions of dollars in projects aimed at mobility, safety, and economic growth to completion.

Here's what I like about

it.

It puts local dollars back into local infrastructure, dollars from the community and from those visiting the community are spent directly on community projects, and it keeps the work local, right in the neighborhood, and on the roads that residents use every day.

All using T-splos dollars.

We

launched a dedicated website to put clear, credible, and educational information at the public's fingertips, creating a centralized accessible resource where residents and stakeholders can find answers, stay informed, and follow developments as they unfold.

Consider this.

What would transportation infrastructure look like without T SPLOS funding?

Which roads would remain on the waiting list for improvements?

Which sidewalks would go unbuilt?

Which intersections would continue operating without needed upgrades?

These are the questions that bring the role of transportation investment into focus in dollars and projects and in the infrastructure residents have come to rely

on.

Imagine the difference.

To

the alcohol license and zoning public hearing for October the twenty-seventh, twenty twenty six.

It is now five o'clock.