(Lawrenceville, Ga., March 13, 2017) – The Citizens Project Selection Committee will meet Wednesday night to vote on projects in the intersections category of the 2017 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.

The group, known as the CPSC, is to meet at 6:30 p.m. in Conference Room C in the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center in Lawrenceville.

“We are grateful to the committee members who give their time to assist in the prioritization of the 2017 SPLOST projects,” said Alan Chapman, director of the Gwinnett County Department of Transportation. “Their service includes not only attendance at these meetings, but also communicating with their constituencies.”

At each meeting, the group is briefed on a project category. Then they vote on that category at a following meeting. On Feb. 22, the CPSC approved a list of Road Safety and Alignment projects and were briefed on intersections. The committee will be briefed on major roads after the vote this Wednesday.

Since the SPLOST vote, the CPSC has received presentations and voted on seven project categories: road safety and alignments, bridges and culverts, school safety, rehabilitation and resurfacing, unpaved roads, residential speed control, and transportation planning.

Prior to the November referendum, the CPSC allocated funding across these categories of transportation projects:

• Bridges, Culverts and Transportation Drainage,
• Capital Projects Rehabilitation and Resurfacing,
• Intersections,
• Major Roads,
• Residential Speed Control,
• Road Safety and Alignment,
• School Safety,
• Sidewalks and Pedestrian Safety,
• Transportation Planning, and
• Unpaved Roads.

The CPSC is made up of 11 members and 11 alternates selected through a grass-roots process: Interested residents from various constituencies selected the representatives. For additional information about citizen input and the 2017 SPLOST, please visit www.gwinnettcpsc.com.