Local 8 Now - Political - Headlines  Sevier County voters defeat
sales tax effort, barely   KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) -- Sevier
County voters narrowly defeated a quarter cent sales tax
increase that would have gone to build new schools. Now, with
increasing enrollment, what will they do next?  The vote was
close.  Nearly 10,000 people voted on that referendum, and it
failed by just about a hundred votes.  School officials say they
needed the money because of overcrowding.  Some are glad it
failed, but some are worried about how the government could get
the money from them anyway.  Sevier county school officials are
disappointed by Tuesday's election results. The schools
superintendent says the quarter cent would have provided 8
million dollars annually for new schools. Superintendent Jack
Parton says they're dealing with an over crowding problem. At
Sevier county high there's 18-hundred students in a building
designed for 12-hundred. And their new school in Boyd's creek.
Parton says, "Four years ago we opened