A last push before voting day

About 40 people turned out in Seneca last night for the Oconee Chamber of Commerce’s last public information meeting on the sales tax referendum in front of election day next week. It gave supporters of a 1-cent tax to pay for 10 projects a chance to make a pitch to the voters. One of them was Danny Day, the chairman of the Oconee Library Board of Trustees. Day not only had good things to say about building new libraries and renovating others, but he said, “All of these projects reach out to everybody in the county. All enhance the quality of life in Oconee County.” There are projects such as building an indoor recreation and aquatic center, but the project County Council gives first priority to is a new Seneca library to replace the existing one that opened in the mid 1960s.