By Maggie Behringer
Correspondent
While Whitfield County’s sales tax revenues are up significantly from this time last year, officials are characterizing the county’s present financial position as unsustainable.
“At some point we’re going to have to make some difficult decisions which will affect people,” said County Commission Chairman Mike Babb. “It’s either going to affect employees of the county or taxpayers of the county.”
Tax receipts show sales tax has generated $3.6 million for the county from January to March, typically a low period for such revenue but a 25 percent jump from the same period last year.