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Today's Poll!Council set to OK budget, amendments
Friday, September 30, 2011
The City Council is expected to approve the 2012 budget Monday, plus several amendments offered by council members.
Approval of the budget has been on the council’s informal calendar since budget work sessions concluded Sept. 8. Since then, five new amendments have been offered, seeking an additional half percent merit increase for full-time city employees, a reduction in proposed funding for the Jefferson City Area Chamber of Commerce, a reduction in what the city shows as revenue from sales and property taxes, and a reduction in transit subsidies, including eliminating a proposed new bus route.
Council members are expected to take up the amendments and approve the budget at the regular meeting Monday night.
In other business, there will be a public hearing Monday on changes to JeffTran route schedules. The transit system is planning on moving from a 30-minute route system to a 40-minute route system, to allow for more time loading and unloading passengers and help keep drivers from rushing through routes to stick to the schedule.
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wow 1 year, 7 months ago
No 1/2 cent Sales Tax....why is it so easy for people to agree increasing the taxes of the common person, but so hard to agree to raise the Taxes on the people who have been the only ones who've made a profit by years of gouging the middle class and poor folks out of their hard earned money? I agree with the lady from, I believe it.s Conn.. Rich folks got rich on the backs of the working class stiff...and all the time the Rich were getting richer, the working class stiff has not benefited from a proper/decent pay, pay raise, medical or retirement benefits. Yet the Rich continued making that Cheddar....so it's about time for things to level out. But this 1/2 Sales Tax continues on the old tradition of bleeding those of the lower level of the economic scale...and I say no more...especially since this money is gonna be spent on projects that make absolutely no sense. I vote "No on the 1/2 cents Sales Tax!!!!!!
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