After passionate debate, intense lobbying and with one vote to spare, the Salt Lake County Council voted Tuesday to place a sales-tax hike for transportation on the Nov. 3 ballot. The vote was 7-2. But a two-thirds majority (6-3) was required by an ordinance passed just last year to normally restrict tax-hike initiatives to general elections in even-numbered years, when voter turnout is much higher than in municipal elections. Voters now will decide this year whether to raise sales taxes by a pe...
Salt Lake County Voters Will Decide On Sales-tax Hike In November
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Tue, 08/04/2015 - 5:33pm
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