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Mount Vernon committee debates shifting income-tax allocations to cover debt service
Summary
Council committee reviewed Ordinance 2026-10, which would reduce percentages for capital and roads funds and direct more income-tax revenue to a debt-coverage capital fund; staff says the change reallocates existing revenue and is not a tax increase.
Mount Vernon council members spent a committee session examining Ordinance 2026-10, a proposal to change how the city allocates portions of its income-tax revenue to better cover rising debt-service needs.
The ordinance would lower the city’s 401 capital-improvement allocation from about 19.5% to 15% and reduce the 405 roads-and-bridges allocation from about 19.5% to 11%, moving additional revenue into fund 407, a capital-improvement/debt-service fund…
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