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"Mistakes" with tax dollars could hit Dunwoody High School

A $41 million shortfall of DeKalb schools local option sales tax could halt 35 building projects, including Dunwoody

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that DeKalb County schools could halt 35 school building projects in the planning phase, including ongoing renovations at Dunwoody High School.

The reason: mismanagement of more than $41 million in tax dollars. The shortfall mostly involves management of the last special purpose local options sales tax, or SPLOST.

The SPLOST was was to generate $513 million from 2007 through August.

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