Referendum Text
Must a one percent sales and use tax be levied in the City of Mauldin, South Carolina for no more than
eight years for the purpose of allowing a credit against certain municipal ad valorem tax liability and for
the purpose of raising the amounts specified for the following purposes?
(1) $15,600,000 for city road infrastructure improvements, including repaving, drainage systems, curbs
and sidewalks
(2) $4,000,000 for a new fire station project.
and must the City Council of the City of Mauldin, South Carolina be authorized to issue and sell, either as
a single issue or as several separate issues, not exceeding $15,600,000 principal amount of general
obligation bonds of the City of Mauldin, to defray the costs of the foregoing purposes, plus issuance costs,
to be paid from the sales and use tax to be imposed as stated herein and pledged to the payment of the
principal of and interest on such bonds, and, in the event such sales and use tax is inadequate for the payment
of such bonds, such bonds shall be payable from an ad valorem tax imposed on all taxable property in the
City of Mauldin?
INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: All qualified electors of the City of Mauldin desiring to vote in favor of
imposing the tax for the stated purposes and authorizing the issuance and sale of bonds in connection
therewith as outlined above shall vote “YES,” and all qualified electors opposed to levying the tax and
issuing such bonds shall vote “NO.”