Commissioners to consider recreation spending

Tennis courts and a playground are among the projects to be funded with special purpose local options sales tax revenue.

The Jackson County Board of Commissioners will vote at 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 20, on a request to allocate $200,000 from SPLOST 5, approved by voters in 2010, for the projects.

At a work session Monday night, the commissioners discussed the projects, which include tennis courts and signs at the East Jackson Recreation Park, tennis courts at the West Jackson Recreation Park, a playground at the Hurricane Shoals Park and water lines for the county equestrian center.