New North Cobb Gym, Theater on Kennesaw School SPLOST List

On Tuesday Cobb voters will decide whether to extend the current Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) for school maintenance and construction projects in the Cobb County School District and Marietta City Schools.

The Cobb Education SPLOST IV, if passed, would collect a penny on the dollar from Jan. 1, 2014 through Dec. 31, 2018. The Cobb County School District would receive $717.8 million and Marietta City Schools $55.4 million.

The attached PDF files, compiled by the Cobb County School District, include descriptions of the work that would be done at all schools in the Harrison, Kennesaw Mountain and North Cobb high school districts.

Among the major projects slated for Kennesaw-area schools include $20.5 million for a new gym and theater at North Cobb High School and $19.3 million for a new gym and theater at Harrison High School.

Two unspecified elementary school replacements, each costing $23 million, and a new $30 milllion career academy also would be built.

Also attached is a PDF of the full Cobb SPLOST IV project list and Tuesday's sample ballot.

The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and voters will go to their usual election day precincts. There has been one permanent precinct change in the Kennesaw area, as voters who formerly cast ballots at Community Bible Church will now go to Chalker Elementary School.

There have been two precinct changes in the Kennesaw area for Tuesday's SPLOST vote only:

• The Martha Moore Education Center polling place is now located at the Ben Robertson Community Center;
• The Towne View Baptist Church location will be at Christ Episcopal Church.

For more voting information, please visit the Cobb Elections website.

More coverage:

• Final Push for Cobb Education SPLOST
• Kennesaw Businessmen in Pro-SPLOST Video
• Cobb Ed SPLOST Foes Hold Rally
• Kennesaw School SPLOST IV Project List