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Forest Park council discusses places-of-eating tax as one option to plug budget gap
Summary
Council members debated a proposed places-of-eating tax to help close an estimated multimillion-dollar general-fund shortfall, but several members and local business owners said timing and harm to small businesses counsel caution; leaders said no tax would be enacted at this meeting.
Forest Park council members discussed a possible "places-of-eating" (restaurant) tax as one of several revenue options to address a reported general-fund deficit, but emphasized the village would not impose the tax immediately.
A council member (speaker 7) framed the tax as a tool used by neighboring towns and said Forest Park is "$4,000,000 in the hole…
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