Bond issue voted down by Oconee County Council

The difference of one vote on Oconee County Council doomed the passage last night of a $16 million dollar bond issue.  The issue would have generated money to prepare a site to build a Tri-County Tech campus in Oconee County.  After a long discussion of the tax millage needed, voting against the bond issue were Cain, Cammick, and McCall.  The county, however, plans to fund its share of a separate building project on Tech’s main campus—the new Student Success Center.  District One’s Cammick, however, said she likely will bring back for consideration next month a proposal by County Administrator Scott Moulder to eliminate the Tech campus site work from a list of projects that the entire $16 million would have funded. The bond issue’s failure postpones other projects such as a new office for the Westminster magistrate and 14 new T-hangars at the Oconee Regional Airport.