Two separate taxes were explained by Go Forward Pine Bluff CEO Ryan Watley and Pine Bluff Mayor Shirley Washington during Tuesday s press conference the three-eighths-cent sales tax, better known as the public safety tax, and the five-eights-cent tax renewal.
The Pine Bluff branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) unanimously voted on Thursday during their regularly scheduled meeting to oppose Go Forward Pine Bluff s proposed 5/8-cent tax renewal and new 3/8-cent sales tax.