Couch: Even a $110M SPLOST won’t pay for all buildings on the want list

At budget retreat, county manager suggests March 2025 sales tax referendum, IDs jail, judicial building as priorities

Bulloch County Manager Tom Couch, back-lit at center right, talks to the county commissioners, in the table nearest to him, and staff members. Reflecting recent tensions and with a sign borrowed from the commissioners' usual meeting room, the public was kept some distance away from the commissioners Monday during the first day of the two-day retreat in the Gene Bishop Field House at Paulson Stadium. (AL HACKLE/staff)

County retreat - Couch — Bulloch County Manager Tom Couch, back-lit at center right, talks to the county commissioners, in the table nearest to him, and staff members. Reflecting recent tensions and with a sign borrowed from the commissioners' usual meeting room, the public was kept some distance away from the commissioners Monday during the first day of the two-day retreat in the Gene Bishop Field House at Paulson Stadium. (AL HACKLE/staff)

Monday, during the first day of the Bulloch County government’s two-day goal-setting retreat toward the fiscal year 2025 budget, County Manager Tom Couch spoke on planning toward a six-year extension of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax and observed that it can’t pay for everything everybody has suggested, even with a “robust economy.”