A plan to fund arts and culture services in Sedgwick County through a sales tax continues to move forward. Currently, arts and culture services are paid for with property taxes. County commissioners are trying to come up with a way to lower property taxes while funding community-centered programs. Commissioner Jim Howell thinks such a plan may need to get approval from the state legislature but says it could be a way to keep funding going without ever touching property taxes. He says property taxes should only fund core government and public safety services and is proposing a one-eighth-cent sales tax to pay for everything else. “If the economy thrives and there’s growth in the economy, then the sales tax generates more money, and that eighth of a cent generates more money they can share between, and we would have to have some type of advisory board that would create recommendations for it to be adopted by the commission on how that money should be split up,” Howell said.
Source: KSN-TV
