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Iowa City council moves to place local option sales tax on November ballot with no sunset
Summary
Councilors voted to use the council-drafted ballot language and include no sunset for the proposed local option sales tax, allocating 50% to property-tax relief, 25% to affordable housing, 10% to infrastructure/public facilities and 15% to community partnerships.
On July 8 the City Council agreed to place a local option sales tax measure on the Nov. 4 general-election ballot, adopting council-drafted ballot language and deciding not to include a sunset provision.
Staff noted two alternate drafts of ballot language; councilors chose the council’s crafted language, with one small edit to pluralize “household” in the affordable-housing description. The council also confirmed percentage allocations discussed at earlier meetings: 50 percent for…
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