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Wichita council defers resolution tying sales-tax funds to private fundraising for downtown arts center
Summary
Council reviewed a draft resolution limiting city expenditures on a proposed downtown performing arts center until private fundraising targets are met, raised multiple taxpayer-protection and operations questions and deferred the item for a January workshop and rewording.
City of Wichita leaders on Dec. 23 reviewed a staff-drafted resolution intended to govern how proceeds from a proposed 1% sales tax would be collected and spent for five projects, including a proposed downtown public performing arts center with a city contribution capped at $75,000,000.
Mayor Wu and several council members pressed staff on taxpayer protections in the draft. "I think that it currently is worded where there's not enough protection for taxpayers," the mayor said, asking what would happen if private fundraisers raised substantially less than the…
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