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Finney County officials ask Senate committee to let voters decide half‑percent sales tax for jail and law enforcement center
Summary
Supporters told the Kansas Senate Tax Committee that House Bill 2275 would let Finney County voters decide a 0.5% countywide retailer sales tax to fund a new jail and remodel a law enforcement center. Backers said the projects are a regional necessity; proponents asked for the question to go on the November ballot. Opponents were not recorded in
House Bill 2275 would authorize Finney County to place before its voters a countywide retailer sales tax of one-half percent, with revenues pledged to finance construction or remodeling of a courthouse, jail, law enforcement center or other county administrative facility, committee staff said.
Representative Fishney, a former Finney County commissioner, told the Kansas Senate Tax Committee he was asking the legislature to permit…
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