Bulloch County Commissioners hosted a luncheon Monday with leaders from Brooklet, Portal, Register and Statesboro to consider an early extension of the existing Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST). City and county officials met at the North Main Annex to confer about a proposal that would place a referendum to extend the current county tax — which will expire in November 2013 — on a ballot November 8, 2011. Bulloch County Manager Tom Couch presented to the group reasons for an early renewal, a time line to move forward with a referendum and projected figures a continued SPLOST tax would yield.