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Public commenter urges Cochise County leaders to disclose jail-tax bookkeeping, questions continued retail collections
Summary
Ali Morris told the Cochise County Jail District she has been unable to obtain itemized maintenance-of-effort expenses or an up-to-date jail tax fund balance, criticized heavily redacted reports, and said retailers continue charging a 0.5% jail tax after its stated end date.
Ali Morris, a registered public commenter, told the Cochise County Jail District on Nov. 4 that she has been unable to obtain current, itemized records accounting for jail tax revenue and maintenance-of-effort expenses despite public records requests.
Morris said she did not accuse the board of spending jail tax money on projects unrelated to a new facility and said she supports a new or improved jail. "I have never stated that this board spent jail tax monies on anything that was…
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