Open House for SPLOST Transportation Projects

The Cobb Board of Elections and Registration is expected to make SPLOST votes official when it meets at the West Cobb Government Center today at 8 a.m. Based on complete but unofficial results, 42,971 people voted in the election: 21,525 for the 1 percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) and 21,446 against, a difference of 79 votes.

The is holding a public information open house today from 3 to 8 p.m. in the second-floor boardroom at . The open house is to present a draft transportation projects list that could be included in the regional sales tax vote of summer 2012.

The project list includes a $2 billion light-rail project that would connect Acworth to Town Center and Kennesaw State University to the Cumberland area to the MARTA Arts Center Station and a $45 million project to widen State Route 92 to four lanes from Cobb Parkway to Dallas Highway and from Cobb Parkway to Cherokee Street/Glade Road.