Cobb SPLOST Groups Rally One Last Time Today

Advance voting is complete; all that's left now is Tuesday's referendum to decide whether the Cobb Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax will continue through 2015 or run out at the end of this year. 

According to the Cobb Board of Elections & Registration, 6,522 Cobb citizens took part in advance voting that ended Friday, with 220 additional mail ballots still unreturned. The proposed four-year, $492 million extension of the penny sales tax would fund a wide array of transportation and facilities improvements, including schools, public safety, parks and recreation and libraries. 

A total of approximately $43 million of the funding, if approved by voters, will be spent on South Cobb projects.

Austell is projected to receive nearly $4.7 million. Mableton is projected to receive $19.1 million, with the biggest expenditure being Floyd Road improvements. Unincorporated Austell is projected to receive $12.4 million, with the biggest expenditure being the combined total of Six Flags Drive's three main projects, which have a combined pricetag of $6.9 million.

For a list of all the South Cobb projects and how much they cost, click .

Groups supporting and opposed to the SPLOST extension will be holding final rallies on Sunday at the Marietta Square. 

A Rock the SPLOST rally organized by groups including the Cobb County Taxpayers Association, the Libertarian Party of Cobb County and the Georgia Tea Party will be held from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.

The pro-SPLOST group Citizens for Cobb's Future will hold its rally from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

All polling stations will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. There is no voting on Monday.

SOUTH COBB VOTING PRECINCTS (Mableton, Austell and unincorporated Austell):