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County officials question port-backed tax-redistribution plan that could redirect local property and sales revenues
Summary
County staff and commissioners raised objections to a port authority plan described in submitted documents that would redirect local tax revenues after state-level approval, arguing the process bypasses county voters and could shift tens of millions of dollars away from other local services.
County officials and at least one staff member said they are alarmed by a port authority plan described in documents the county has reviewed that would reallocate local tax revenues through a state-level approval process.
A staff presenter summarized the port documents and estimated the plan would redirect roughly $71 million in property-tax revenue, of which the county’s current expense share and other local levies would be reduced by tens of millions of dollars. The presenter said the plan’s materials list roughly $373 million of infrastructure improvements and further projects totaling hundreds of millions more in the port’s development…
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