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Council reviews CCIP quarter-cent tax renewal package; debate over trolley barn, downtown shop and composting seed funding
Summary
City staff presented a draft CCIP package for a possible quarter-cent sales-tax renewal that funds affordable housing, pools and parks, and several downtown facility projects; council debated reallocating parts of the trolley-building and downtown park-shop allocations toward a seed contribution for composting/food-waste infrastructure and requested refined cost breakdowns and contingency language for the ballot.
City staff presented a prospective Community Capital Improvement Program (CCIP) package to support a renewal of the quarter-cent sales tax and asked council for direction on package refinements and ballot language. Ginny Sawyer summarized the package and explained that staff were not recommending bonding; instead the renewal would be cash-funded over the 10-year period and staff had incorporated inflation assumptions where appropriate.
Major projects in the proposed package include continued investments in affordable housing (staff described a revolving-loan option and suggested the renewal could add to a housing fund), replacement or upgrade of Mulberry Pool, funding…
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