Petition filed seeking to keep city of Topeka from raising taxes without public vote

Petition drive organizer Earl McIntosh said he submitted 2,445 more signatures than required Monday on a petition seeking to ban Topeka’s city government from raising property taxes without a public vote. McIntosh said 5,386 people signed the petition he turned in to county election commissioner Andrew Howell. … The petition seeks to ban Topeka’s city government, without a public vote, from assessing more property taxes in any given year than it collected the previous year.
Source: CJonline