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Council Moves to Place Sales-Tax Option on Ballot as Staff Weigh Synthetic Turf for Major Park
Summary
Council reported consensus to pursue a sales-tax increase (suggested 0.2%) to fund parks improvements. Parks staff described synthetic-turf conversions that drove higher use, increased revenues in peer jurisdictions and lifetime/maintenance tradeoffs for Lake Stevens facilities.
The Lake Stevens City Council reported consensus to move a proposed sales-tax increase onto the ballot to support parks projects after staff outlined follow-up items from an April retreat.
City staff member Jean (city staff) told the council there was consensus to seek voter approval for a sales-tax increase to fund parks; during the meeting staff and council discussed a suggested rate described in the packet as two-tenths of a percent (0.2 percentage points). "Yes. Correct," a staff presenter said when asked about the suggested rate.
Parks staff described outreach and data collection on synthetic turf. David…
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