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Boone County reviews wheel tax scenarios as road-funding gap looms
Summary
County staff presented wheel-tax scenarios showing a $5 minimum could yield about $585,000 countywide, with distribution rules and timing tied to state approvals; council members discussed how a wheel tax would interact with bonds and reduced CCMG funding and emphasized coordination with towns that could adopt their own wheel taxes.
Susan, a county staff member, presented potential countywide wheel-tax scenarios and the Boone County Council discussed how those options could replace shrinking state road funds and interact with planned bond decisions. "I have some wheel tax potential wheel tax scenarios," Susan said, and she gave the council estimates for flat-per-vehicle charges and how revenue would be split among the county and municipalities.
The discussion matters because state road funding that the county historically received—Community Crossings and related distributions—appears likely to shrink, and the county is weighing whether to offset that shortfall through a wheel tax, bonding or a combination of both. Under the county’s “minimum” flat-tax scenario, Susan estimated total countywide revenue of about $596,952 before a BMV processing fee and about $584,489 after the fee; the county’s share under the minimum example would be roughly $214,000.
Susan told the council the law requires adopting both a county excise surtax and a county wheel tax…
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