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Today's Poll!Council to consider JC Fire Department sales tax
Friday, May 18, 2012
The City Council is set to consider the Fire Department improvement plan Monday, which includes a potential switch from a property to a sales tax on the August ballot.
The proposed ordinance would mean a 17 percent reduction to city property taxes as it would eliminate the 9.61-cent contribution to the Fireman’s Pension Fund. The one-fourth cent proposed sales tax would sunset in 15 years, something City Administrator Nathan Nickolaus called “bad policy.”
“I’m 100 percent against the sunset,” Nickolaus said at the Public Safety Committee meeting Thursday after a council member expressed concern about having a sunset on the proposed tax.
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JCLifer 1 year ago
NO MORE TAXES unless you are going to improve something around here.
The economy is horrible.
City Hall has to learn to live on what it has.
VOTING NO AGAIN.
spelchek 1 year ago
I like the idea of making this tax fairer by giving everyone an equal opportunity to put into the pot; BUT, I have to agree with Lifer in the sense that the Jefferson City mantra has become "do more with less". If the largest work force in the city has to live with less, so does everyone else. We'd all like a larger piece of the pie but the powers that be ain't gonna let that happen. Perhaps the JCFD could get some legislators to form committee and study this, I heard they're very concerned and very efficient at getting these kind of things resolved.
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