Question 2 - Educational Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (E-SPLOST)

Shall a one percent sales and use tax for educational purposes be imposed, levied and collected in the Clarke County School District (the "School District) for a period of time not to exceed twenty consecutive calendar quarters (5 years), beginning immediately upon the expiration of the one percent sales and use tax for educational purposes currently being collected, and for the raising of not more than $215,000,000, for the purposes of acquiring, constructing and equipping the following capital outlay projects: (a) additions to, renovations of, repairs to, improvements to, and equipment for existing educational, administrative, and services buildings, properties, and facilities of the School District, as indicated by enrollment and enrollment trends, including, without limitation, Bettye Henderson Holston Elementary School, Barnett Shoals Elementary School, David C. Barrow Elementary School, Johnnie Lay Burks Elementary School, Cleveland Road Elementary School, Fowler Drive Elementary School, West Broad School Complex, Howard B. Stroud Elementary School, Judia J. Harris Elementary School, the current Gaines Elementary School, the facility formerly operated as Gaines Elementary School, Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary School, Timothy Road Elementary School, Whit Davis Elementary School, Whitehead Road Elementary School, Winterville Elementary School, Burney-Harris-Lyons Middle School, Clarke Middle School, W.R. Coile Middle School, Hilsman Middle School, Cedar Shoals High School, Clarke Central High School, and Classic City High School, Athens Community Career Academy, Early Learning Center, athletic facilities, transportation facilities (including bus driver training facilities) maintenance facilities, storage facilities (including the storage facility located on Barber Street), and administrative and services facilities; (b) new administrative and services facilities, and professional and early learning facilities; (c) technology to be used at all educational and administrative facilities, including, but not limited to, computers, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices for students and staff, servers, wiring, wireless antennas, and other technology upgrades with necessary hardware, software, and programs; (d) acquisition of and/or improvements to real and personal property, including, but not limited to, improved or unimproved land and existing buildings for future school or administrative and services facility sites, custodial and school nutrition kitchen equipment and other furniture, fixtures and equipment; (e) security system upgrades, equipment and infrastructure to all educational and administrative facilities; (f) school buses (including installment payments); (g) sewer system upgrades to convert from septic systems to public sewer; (h) capital expenditures in accordance with the School District's strategic plan for facilities; and (i) capitalized expenses incident thereto (including the payment of any capitalized interest); all in accordance with the facilities plans of the School District, as the same may be revised in accordance with the needs of the School District? If imposition of the tax is approved by the voters, such vote shall also constitute approval of the issuance of general obligation of debt of the Clarke County School District in the principal amount of $75,000,000 for the above purpose and the costs of issuance of such debt.