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Punta Gorda 1% sales-tax committee reviews final project batch, flags downtown flooding and public safety as top priorities
Summary
At its Jan. 13 meeting the 1% Local Sales Tax Committee reviewed final project submissions and recommended priorities for Council consideration; members asked staff to return corrected cost data and discussed funding tiers, with downtown flooding phase 3 rated highest.
The Punta Gorda 1% Local Sales Tax Committee met Jan. 13 to review the final batch of candidate projects and prepare a ranked list for the City Council’s March 11 review.
Committee members moved to approve the Dec. 9 minutes (Sherry Danko moved to approve “the December 9 meeting minutes as presented,” and Mike Fox seconded), then began a short-form review of projects that had been presented in December.
Finance Director Kristen Simeone told the committee the local-option 1% sales tax has produced “about 4 and a half million dollars per fiscal year” recently and recommended planning conservatively on roughly $4,000,000 per year for a…
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