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Consultant briefs commission on optional county sales tax for public safety and jail funding
Summary
A municipal finance consultant outlined a statutory mechanism that allows some Utah counties to adopt an optional sales-tax increment for public safety; the presentation included revenue scenarios, potential bond capacity and guidance on how counties might reserve proceeds for capital planning.
Marcus Keller, a public finance advisor with Cruz and Associates, briefed Duchesne County commissioners on a state-level sales-tax provision (commonly discussed as the “02/2016” sales-tax option) that allows eligible counties to adopt a countywide sales tax increment of up to 0.30 percent to fund public-safety needs.
Keller explained the measure’s background: it was used by Iron County to help fund a large jail project and is structured so a board of county commissioners can vote to adopt the increment rather than sending the question directly to a general election in some circumstances. He said the legislature had revised language and that the statute allows counties (typically certain classes of…
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