Jamestown Council Extending Tax
The Jamestown, ND city council is scheduled to vote to extend the 1% economic development sales tax and change the use at their April 5, 2010 meeting. The tax, originally scheduled to end in 2012 enacts a 1% sales tax, the proceeds of which are supposed to be used for economic development and infrastructure improvements for economic development. The city council would like to extend it’s end date to 2018 as well as divert 50% of the funds to infrastructure maintenance such as sewer replacement.
All of those changes are fine. IF the citizens of Jamestown, ND get to vote to approve them. The original ordinance was placed on the ballot and voted on by the citizens, so it should follow that the citizens should be allowed to vote on any changes to the ordinance. Am I wrong? Am I missing something here?
Unfortunately, the city of Jamestown doesn’t have any of their ordinances or election results online, so I can’t do any research that way. I guess I’ll have to go down to the city hall and see if I can find anything out in the catacombs. Welcome to the 21st century folks, it’s time to digitize your records. Especially the ones that are supposed to be publicly available.
Also, you can bet I’ll be recording in detail the election results from now on. If for no other reason than for my own research ability.