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Lake Forest Park to study 0.1% public-safety sales tax and grant eligibility under HB 2015
Summary
Councilors discussed a draft resolution authorizing a 0.1% sales and use tax under House Bill 2015 for public safety and directed staff — including the police chief — to report back on whether the city meets grant eligibility findings; Council member Liebow offered to draft a resolution instructing staff to do the legwork.
Lake Forest Park councilors on June 23 reviewed a draft proposal to authorize a 0.1% sales-and-use tax for public safety under House Bill 2015 and asked city staff to analyze grant-eligibility conditions and return with a report.
Council member Lebo summarized the law: “So in this most recent, legislative session, they did pass engrossed senate house bill number 20 15, which did authorize cities, to increase, for public safety reasons, the sales tax by 1 tenth of a percent.” City Attorney Pratt later told the council that if the council intends to adopt the sales-tax resolution it must…
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