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Lebanon council approves placing use tax question on April ballot to fund public projects
Summary
The Lebanon City Council voted to place a use tax question before voters in the April municipal election, adopting an ordinance that staff said would create a new revenue stream to fund a police and fire training facility, a new animal shelter and improvements to the Boswell Aquatic Center.
The Lebanon City Council voted to place a use tax question before voters in the April municipal election, adopting an ordinance that staff said would create a new revenue stream to fund a police and fire training facility, a new animal shelter and improvements to the Boswell Aquatic Center.
City staff presented the ordinance and ballot language, telling the council the proposal would place a use tax “at the rate equal to the total local sales tax rates in effect” and that revenue would be allocated across public safety, parks, stormwater, general fund and capital projects. “It is very difficult for any city in Missouri to figure out how much revenue is actually generated from a use tax,” the presenter said during the discussion. “Every city that has tried to estimate it has been way off.”
The measure was presented as a calendarized sequence of proposed local tax proposals; staff said the council had discussed…
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