Franklin County Commission to consider gas tax and BB guns on Tuesday

                Franklin County’s gas tax could increase by another penny a gallon beginning in 2017.

Franklin County commissioners will hold a public hearing on Tuesday to consider increasing the local gas tax from 5 cents a gallon to 6 cents.

Franklin County is the only county in the state that does not already impose a minimum of 6 cents local gas tax.

Levying the additional penny in the gas tax will only raise about 50 thousand dollars a year, which isn’t that much, but it makes the county eligible for more state road paving funds.

If commissioners approve the gas tax increase this week, it would take effect on January the 1^st.

Franklin County commissioners will also consider an ordinance on Tuesday to control the use of air guns in Lanark Village.

The board is taking the action in response to complaints from Lanark Village residents who say that children in the Village are abusing pellet guns and BB guns and there is currently nothing anyone can do about it.

If the rule is approved it would ban the discharge of pellet guns, BB guns, slingshots and bows and arrows in the Lanark Village community, so when the sheriff’s department responds to the next call they can do something about it.

Similar ordinances already exist in the cities of Carrabelle and Apalachicola.

The Franklin county Commission meeting begins at 9 tomorrow morning at the Franklin county Courthouse Annex in Apalachicola.

You can see the full agenda posted on-line at oysterradio.com

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