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Commissioners consider county grocery GRT ballot option to fund EMS, 911 and behavioral health; no vote
Summary
County staff outlined a potential countywide grocery gross-receipts tax (increments of 1/16th percent) to fund emergency communications, EMS services and a crisis triage center; commissioners voiced concern about placing another tax on the ballot this year amid economic strain and asked staff to further study offsets and alternatives such as sunsetting the Spaceport GRT.
County staff presented an option at the May 5 work session to ask voters this year to approve a countywide gross receipts tax increment (a 1/16th percent increment was estimated to yield roughly $4.3 million countywide) that could be dedicated to emergency communications, EMS services and behavioral-health services such as a crisis triage center (CTC).
Staff sketched a possible allocation: roughly 30% for emergency…
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