Sales tax campaign starts in Guilford County
A billboard campaign supporting a quarter-cent sales tax kicked off today in Guilford County with a press conference in which plans for a direct mail and yard sign campaign were announced.
Chambers of commerce in Greensboro and High Point support that campaign along with the Guilford Education Alliance and Triad Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition.
The tax is expected to raise at least $15 million per year, according to a release from Citizens for a Better Guilford, a support group for the quarter-cent sales tax.
Guilford County commissioners passed a non-binding resolution in the summer that pledged that the tax would be used to pay off capital improvement debt for school construction.
This is the second time that the sales tax has been before voters in Guilford County. It failed in May by nearly a three-to-one margin.
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