While regular SPLOST programs have been funding capital improvements for county government infrastructure, Gwinnett voters have also approved three E-SPLOST programs (1997, 2001, and 2006) to help pay for schools. Changes to state law in 1997 allowed county schools to propose their own capital improvement programs to voters.
Together, these three programs have paid down debt, built and equipped thousands of new classrooms, and bought land for dozens of new schools. The current E-SPLOST is expected to raise about a billion dollars before it expires in 2012, yet it will only meet about half the needs of Gwinnett's rapidly growing public schools.
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