For the second meeting in a row, the Pittsburg City Commission on Tuesday discussed the differences between the wording of its street maintenance sales tax ordinance, and the description of the sales tax on the city’s website.
“The revenue from said sales tax shall be used to pay for the maintenance and repair of city streets, and not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) annually to pay for a sidewalk repair matching fund for property owners,” states the text of Ordinance No. S-1048, passed in July, 2017.
The tax “shall be used to maintain and repair city streets, and shall expire five (5) years from the date such additional retailers sales tax is first collected,” an earlier version of the ordinance passed in 2015 states.
A description of the street maintenance sales tax on the city’s website, however, uses slightly different wording, stating that “Pittsburg voters overwhelmingly approved renewal of a quarter-cent street sales tax in September 2015 to provide additional funding for the construction, alteration, repair, and maintenance of City streets.”
(Read more: Pittsburg, KS – Morning Sun)