Business View Civil Municipal - Sept 2023

156 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 maintenance of this facility, and recent upgrades, including sound and lighting enhancements, and air conditioning improvements, were completed using SPLOST funding. Billingsley conveys, “It’s important, as all of our facilities, even our high school, and our elementary schools, are 37 and 30 years old. We’ve done a great job of keeping those facilities up, doing things that have shown the kids that we have pride in our community.” Other recent investments that have been possible due to SPLOST dollars include the construction of a track and football field house, weight room and JROTC building. “We only got the JROTC program in 2016, and we broke ground that year,” says Billingsley. “The last SPLOST that we passed was an approval for a wrestling facility. We’ve had a lot of support from our community, and it’s allowed us to utilize it and upgrade facilities.”