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East Topeka advocates ask committee to back quarter-cent sales tax for corridor revitalization
Summary
Community leaders urged the Topeka Policy and Finance Committee to forward a proposal for a 15-year quarter-cent sales tax to fund an East Topeka Corridor revitalization, including reuse of the Payless complex as a workforce and business hub and contributions to an affordable housing trust.
Community leaders urged the Topeka Policy and Finance Committee to advance a plan that would use a proposed quarter-cent sales tax to fund a multi-part East Topeka Corridor revitalization.
Curtis Pitts, who identified himself as a long-time community leader and former head of the city's disadvantaged minority council, told the committee the plan includes partnerships with Go Topeka and a request that some tax proceeds be directed to the city’s affordable housing trust fund. “It’s for the good of the entire…
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