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Commissioners tentatively settle on 73.5% county, 26.5% city split in sales-tax talks
Summary
After hours of negotiation over revenue forecasts and how to finance priority projects, commissioners and city representatives agreed in principle to a 73.5% county / 26.5% city split for the proposed local sales-tax proceeds and recessed before formally recording a final vote.
Chair (S1) opened the discussion of the single new-business item — the final review of the projects list tied to the proposed local sales-tax — and urged the parties to find common ground. After extended negotiation over competing offers (previously as high as 80/20), participants gravitated toward a compromise.
Committee member S5 proposed a middle-ground split and urged, "let's split the difference," pressing arithmetic that would place the county at roughly 73.5% and the city at 26.5%. Multiple commissioners and staff echoed that compromise as numerically reasonable given conservative revenue forecasts. Committee member S7 said the compromise "pretty much gives both sides what they wanted." The transcript records a motion to recess during the bargaining and, after resuming, participants accepted the split-the-difference approach before moving to adjourn without a formal roll-call adoption in the transcript.
Why it matters: the percentage split determines how much each jurisdiction receives to pay for projects on the agreed list, and small percentage shifts represent hundreds of thousands of dollars. Staff had presented a roughly $39,000,000 revenue baseline for the sales-tax cycle, which both sides said justified a modest adjustment from prior shares. The agreement is described in the meeting as a tentative, negotiated settlement; the transcript does not show a formal ordinance, intergovernmental agreement, or final recorded vote adopting the split.
