The Carrollton City Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to indefinitely table granting an easement on its property to the Greenbelt project until it receives more information from the city on plans to add a turn lane to Ben Scott Boulevard to ease traffic congestion.

The Greenbelt, a biking and walking trail that would eventually encircle the city, would start at the Hay’s Mill Road park, follow Buffalo Creek to Ben Scott and then run parallel to Ben Scott from the middle school to the front of the junior high school. The school system is looking at adding a wing onto the middle school and has a cross country course that runs near Ben Scott Boulevard near the creek and isn’t sure how the widening of the road might affect those plans. Even before discussion of widening of the road, the cross-country course had to be modified to accommodate the trail.

“I have not been able to get in touch with the city yet, but we’ll work through all that with them and bring what their plans are as far as Ben Scott before we grant that easement,” Superintendent Tom Wilson told the board members.

This is just the latest delay for the Greenbelt trail in its nearly seven years of development. The organizers have raised more than $2 million for the trail but have been delayed by state bureaucracy, as the Georgia Department of Transportation, provider of one of the grants used to fund the first phase of the project, investigates the environmental impact of the trail.

The board also unanimously approved a resolution of its intent to sell $8 million in bonds to fund a possible addition on the middle school, renovation of the old gym and all the rest rooms at Carrollton High School. The system has not heard from the state whether it has been approved for the program, but has to be ready to sell the bonds by Dec. 31 if it is approved.

State revenue was down 17.8 percent in October, increasing worries that the governor will once again cut the state school systems’ budgets.

“We just don’t know what’s going to happen in January,” Wilson said. “If there were additional cuts then we would have to look at those furlough days.

Special purpose local option sales tax revenue fell along with the state tax revenue. The school system took in $240,912 in October, down $60,272 from September and $67,322 from October 2008.

After Tuesday’s rain, Buffalo Creek washed out the newly repaired Allison Circle intersection near Carrollton High School. Traffic to and from the subdivision will be routed through the high school parking lot.