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Wagoner County commissioners debate rewriting Proposition 1 sales-tax split; motion to revert fails for lack of second
Summary
Commissioners spent more than an hour debating whether to change how the county’s voter-approved 1¢ Proposition 1 sales tax is divided among the three commissioner districts. A motion to restore the previous distribution failed for lack of a second; no further formal change was adopted.
Wagoner County commissioners spent the majority of a July 21 meeting debating whether to revise the distribution formula for the county’s voter-approved 1¢ Proposition 1 sales tax.
The discussion centered on whether the distribution should be reallocated by road miles to even out per-mile funding across the county’s three commissioner districts. No formal change was adopted; a motion to return the distribution "back the way it was" failed for lack of a second.
Commissioners and staff described widening differences in what each district receives per road mile under the current split. One…
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