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Cowlitz County weighs 0.2% public-safety sales-tax referral; commissioners debate timing and impact
Summary
Commissioner Sean Roe presented a draft resolution to refer a two‑tenths‑of‑a‑percent public-safety sales tax to the ballot, estimating roughly $3.6 million county collection and a $6 million countywide total; commissioners debated revenue sharing, vehicle-sale exemptions and whether to proceed to the April 28 agenda.
Commissioner Sean Roe presented a draft resolution and explanatory statement to place a public-safety sales tax on the ballot and told the board the county would need to approve language and put the item on the public agenda by April 28 to meet a May 1 deadline for the voter's pamphlet.
"We would need to review these, get them on the agenda in public, and need to have it approved before May 1," Roe said, and added that the county was proposing two‑tenths of a percent as the county option. Roe explained vehicle sales would be exempt and that collection under the proposal was estimated at about $3.6 million for county collection…
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