Voters across the county will be returning to the polls in mid-March, and some in a portion of the county will be back even before that.
The Henry County Board of Education voted at its January 11 regular meeting to call for a March 16 referendum on the extension of the district’s one-cent special-purpose local option sales tax. A yes vote by a majority of voters could mean up to $325 million in revenue over a five-year period. It would be the sixth installment of the E-SPLOST.
According to an updated project list presented to the board, the first capital project addressed after passage of the referendum would be an addition to Dutchtown High School that would begin within days after the vote, should it be approved by voters. Other projects in the years to come would include two new elementary schools and a STEM high school.
Voters in five Henry County precincts have the opportunity to consider a new state representative for District 90, which also includes portions of Clayton and DeKalb counties. A special election has been scheduled for February 9 with several candidates vying to succeed Pam Stephenson, who resigned in September after a decade in office. Stephenson won the Democratic primary last year and had no Republican challenger when she decided to leave office after the ballot was set for the November election.
Early voting is underway at three locations: the county elections office, 40 Atlanta Street in McDonough; Merle Manders Conference Center, 111 Davis Road in Stockbridge; and Fairview Recreation Center, 35 Austin Road in Stockbridge. Polls are open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. the remainder of this week as well as January 25-29. Saturday voting is available January 30 from 9 a.m. to 4. p.m. The final week of early voting is 7 a.m.-7 p.m. February 1-5.
Voters can choose any of those three sites for early voting. Election Day voting can only be done at the appropriate precinct. For the special election, those precincts are Austin Road, Cotton Indian, Pleasant Grove, Stockbridge East/West, and Swan Lake.
