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Little Rock Board votes to call 1% sales tax election amid chaotic meeting Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. (file photo)
The
Little Rock Board of Directors voted Tuesday to call a special election September 14 to ask voters to approve a 1% sales tax increase, which would generate an estimated $53 million per year. But the meeting was marred by chaos and confusion.
The board considered three items related to the election: an ordinance to call the election, an ordinance that described how the tax would be levied and for how long and a nonbinding resolution that spells out how the city intends to spend the tax money. The ordinance to call the election passed, but an emergency clause on it failed. The ordinance that described the tax passed. And the resolution failed.
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Little Rock sales tax proposal changed to include 10-year sunset; spending changes.
Little Rock sales tax proposal changed to include 10-year sunset; spending changes and promises on an early childhood program
As Lindsey Millar reported earlier this week, a compromise appears in the works on a
Little Rock sales tax proposal.
With backing from
Director Kathy Webb, who’d earlier led a move to delay a vote on calling a special election until July, the Board will take up the issue sooner, this Tuesday.
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The agenda now includes an ordinance to call a special election Sept. 14 on a one-city sales tax increase effective Jan. 1 (which will mean 5/8ths of a cent increase in the current rate because of the expiration of a 3/8ths of a cent 10-year tax.) But it would expire in 10 years, on Dec. 31, 2031. Previously, it would have been permanent.