The Hall County Board of Commissioners is expected to vote this afternoon on a new distribution certificate for local option sales tax revenue, but it may not differ much from the current distribution.
Hall and Gainesville, on behalf of the other Hall County cities, couldn’t decide last year how to distribute the LOST funds. The current LOST certificate was extended from a Dec. 31, 2012, deadline because the cities and Hall were waiting for court arbitration.
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled last week the baseball arbitration approved by the General Assembly in 2009 is unconstitutional.
Hall County Administrator Randy Knighton said the special called commission meeting today at 4 p.m. at the Hall County Government Center in Gainesville was in response to a suggestion from the Association County Commissioners of Georgia. ACCG has talked with the Department of Revenue and the Georgia Attorney General’s Office.
“(ACCG) has advised us that each county who has been engaged in the LOST arbitration proceedings submit a new LOST certificate to the Revenue Department this week,” Knighton said.
Knighton declined Monday to say what type of distribution commissioners are likely to approve, but he did say officials have not discussed the “best and final offer” that each side submitted to retired Superior Court Judge Frank Mills earlier this year.
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