Group pushes for extension of citywide sales tax to fix Topeka streets

Voters may feel some disappointment that Topeka’s city government hasn’t done more to fix its streets using the revenue from a citywide half-cent sales tax, a leader for the campaign to renew the tax acknowledged Thursday.

Still, Jim Parrish said, the predominant message he is hearing from people in this community is that “we need to continue the march.”

Parrish is chairman of the nonprofit group Future Forward, which is running an advertising campaign to promote passage of a ballot question that would extend the tax for 10 years. Topeka governing body members voted July 17 to schedule the ballot question vote.