Sales tax brings in $6.5M for first year

Funding right on target with district’s estimate.

Lindsay Laxton, the Columbia County School District’s finance diretor, said the half-cent sales tax generated $6.5 million, ‘right on target’ with the district’s estimates. (FILE)
Lindsay Laxton, the Columbia County School District’s finance diretor, said the half-cent sales tax generated $6.5 million, ‘right on target’ with the district’s estimates. (FILE)

So far the Columbia County School District’s half-cent sales tax is right on the money.

In the first year of collecting the tax funding toward facility upgrades, the district netted $6.46 million, righ…