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City staff outline public‑safety sales‑tax option and three‑year grant opportunity to help fund defenders and officers
Summary
Staff briefed council on a councilmanic 0.1% public‑safety sales tax that could raise roughly $800,000 annually, and on a competitive three‑year CJTC grant that partially funds new public‑safety positions; staff outlined eligibility, timing and caveats.
At the retreat, staff explained two linked mechanisms available to Lake Stevens to increase public‑safety funding: (1) a councilmanic 0.1% public‑safety sales tax the city can adopt and (2) a three‑year grant administered by the Criminal Justice Training Commission that requires a local match and program eligibility.
The 0.1% sales tax (if adopted locally) would yield in the order of roughly $800,000 per year for the city under current sales‑tax projections, according to staff estimates provided at the retreat. The sales‑tax statute allows cities to fund a broad range of public‑safety and criminal‑justice related…
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