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Mariposa supervisors direct staff to pursue sales-tax option and explore TOT to fund new sheriff's headquarters
Summary
After a multi-hour presentation on design options and financing, the Board of Supervisors asked staff to return with concrete numbers for a sales-tax ballot measure and to examine a possible transient-occupancy-tax increase to help fund a proposed new sheriff's headquarters and emergency operations center.
Mariposa County supervisors asked staff on April 1 to develop concrete ballot and financing plans for a new sheriff's headquarters, directing County Administrative Officer Joe Lynch and Sheriff Jeremy Breeze to return with detailed cost and revenue scenarios, including a sales-tax ballot initiative and a possible transient-occupancy-tax (TOT) increase.
The board's request followed presentations from Banner Construction Management, which outlined site options and construction cost estimates, and CrisCom, a government-relations contractor advising on state and federal funding. The sheriff said a consolidated headquarters would improve public safety operations and serve as the county's emergency operations center during disasters.
Why it matters: The project is large relative to Mariposa County's budget and visitor-driven service demands. Banner's preliminary budgets put the two-building project at about $47 million today—roughly $37 million for the main operations building (Building A) and $10 million for a separate evidence/training building (Building B). The board's…
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