Nearly $11 million would come Franklin County’s way, including money for the Georgia Mountains region’s lone airport project, if voters approve a 1 percent sales tax for transportation on July 31. And while, at $389,495 in 2011 dollars, the Franklin-Hart Airport improvement isn’t the biggest-dollar item for Franklin, the project is a key piece of what the county would receive if the tax is approved. “It’s a safety project, to make sure that people can move on the airport without having to be on the runway,” said Carnesville Mayor Harris Little, also a member of the Regional Transportation Roundtable that voted to put a slate of regional projects on the ballot.
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