The fate of Wichita’s 1% sales tax will soon be in voters’ hands, after the city council unanimously voted Tuesday to put it on the ballot. Wichita Forward, the organization that originally brought the sales tax proposal to the council, celebrated the decision. “[Citizens] have an opportunity to support investments in our homelessness challenges, to invest in our first responders, to lower property taxes,” Matt Burchett, a Wichita Forward board member, said after the vote. “With this opportunity city council provided, the citizens get to choose those opportunities for the city.”
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