Sales tax election today

Posted on the August 14th, 2007 under Goin' to Town by Jeff

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The sales tax election is today. I hope everyone turns out and votes in this important election. You are well aware of my concerns related to the lack of planning in conjunction with this tax and the direction of our city. However, after today, I hope you’ll give your input to our city officials as to future vision and planning for our community.

I still think our county and city leaders desperately need strategic coordination for us all. I still think that more proactive long-term planning needs to be done. I still think Monticello is an incredible place to live. Whether you’re a pro-taxer or a pro-planner or anti-taxer, anti-planner, whatever, we are blessed to live in a great place.

I look forward to seeing the results of the election. In the 1997 election for the one-cent tax that expires this year, only 1000 folks voted. The tax passed then with only 613 voting in favor of the tax, while 345 voted against it. At the very least, I hope that there’s better voter turnout this time around.

Go vote. Let your voice be heard, one way or the other.

One Response to 'Sales tax election today'

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dean said, on August 16th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

well, what’s done is done, now its up to our city leaders to do the right thing(s) with the money that will continue to pass through their hands for the next 15 years… money with even less constraints on it than the last 10 years’ worth.

i read the front page article in yesterday’s advance, and the mayor was giving credit to those who were responsible for the election results. all i can say about that is, i dont see how any “credit” can be given for such an abysmal voter turnout. what you CAN say is they did a slightly less miserable job of getting people out to vote than we did :-)

in the end though, nobody - no matter how rich, powerful or articulate they are - can force anyone to do something they dont want to do, and obviously 85% of the registered voters in monticello dont want to participate in how (or how much of) their money is spent by the city.

ok… mayor, city council, medc, chamber…. show us what you can do!