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Forsyth County pitches sales tax split with Cumming Proposal includes rules governing city annexations By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com
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Players with the Sounds of Sawnee Concert Band perform at their annual Christmas concert held at the Cumming City Center Dec. 2. Event organizers said this year was the band’s 29th year performing. See story, Page 4.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County has finalized its proposal for splitting revenue with the City of Cumming from a local option sales that is expected to generate nearly $60 million over the next decade. But beyond negotiations over how to share sales tax revenue, county officials have attached other provisions to the agreement meant to resolve ongoing disputes with the city over recent annexations. The sales tax distribution proposal, approved by county commissioners Dec. 1, would keep sales tax distributions fairly consistent with the current agreement approved in 2012 that gives 87 percent of revenues to the county and 13 percent to the City of Cumming. However, there is a four-year period, from 2026-30, when the county’s share would increase by 1 percent. The proposal also lays out five other agreements between the city and county that would be part of the deal, including a new way for the two parties to negotiate proposed city annexations, which have proven hostile in recent years.
See PROPOSAL, Page 3