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Scott council hears pitch for 1-cent public-safety sales tax, tables related agenda items
Summary
Fire Chief Sonnier and Police Chief Chad Leger outlined how a proposed 1-cent public-safety sales tax would be used; Chief Leger asked the council to table a related agenda item for joint discussion with another item and the council approved tabling.
Fire Chief Sonnier and Police Chief Chad Leger presented the council with an overview of a proposed one-cent public-safety sales tax and how revenues would be designated to support public-safety needs in Scott.
Chief Leger asked the mayor and council to table agenda item 12 so it could be discussed together with item 19; the mayor and council approved the request. The transcript records the chiefs “thoroughly explained what the tax dollars is needed and would be designated for,” but does not list specific line-item uses or revenue estimates.
The request to table means the council will consider the sales-tax proposition alongside the related agenda matter at a later point; no formal vote on the tax proposition itself took place during the Feb. 6 meeting. The meeting record does not include a roll-call vote tally for the tabling motion.
The discussion followed other public-safety reporting in the meeting, including a separate 2019 departmental recap presented earlier by Police Chief Chad Leger.
