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Flagstaff committee weighs $40 million bond, 0.25% sales-tax and water fee increase to shore up public safety funding
Summary
A Flagstaff City committee reviewed a package of funding options — a $40 million general-obligation bond, a possible 0.25%–0.5% local sales-tax increase, and raising the water resources infrastructure protection (WRIP) fee — and agreed to send draft questions to a polling firm before recommending any ballot language to City Council.
City staff presented a series of scenarios on Tuesday to a Flagstaff committee aimed at funding public-safety needs, including a $40 million general-obligation bond, possible sales-tax increases, and a proposed increase to the city’s water resources infrastructure protection (WRIP) fee.
Staff member (speaker 2) told the committee the staff analysis separates capital into buildings, furnishings/equipment and non-building items and showed a set of four "tier" spreadsheets. Removing wildland-fire items from Tier 1 reduced the 10-year total from roughly $144.6 million to about $135.6 million. For the WRIP fee specifically, staff reported an average residential increase of about $3.06 per month (about $36.77 per year) based on a modeled rise from $0.53 to $0.88 per 1,000 gallons and a 3,500-gallon-per-month household usage assumption.
Rick (speaker 6), who helped prepare the bond-payback tables, walked the committee through a $40 million GO-bond example and the secondary-property-tax levy mechanics. Using a 0.8 secondary…
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