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Council debates indexing municipal service fee, sales-tax allocations and revenue compliance
Summary
At the March 31 workshop councilors debated indexing the municipal service fee to CPI-U to restore purchasing power, considered whether sales-tax allocations to parks and pensions should remain fixed, and supported investing in revenue-compliance work after staff identified substantial uncollected fees.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — During a lengthy workshop discussion about fiscal sustainability, Morgantown council members weighed three types of measures: (1) index the municipal service fee (MSF) to inflation, (2) revisit the 1% municipal sales-tax allocation and (3) invest in improved revenue-compliance systems.
One council member proposed adjusting the MSF to track CPI-U and to "catch up" with inflation since 2016. Staff said indexing back to 2016 would reflect a cumulative…
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