The Hillsborough County Commission voted Wednesday to move forward with a referendum that would ask voters in November to renew the Community Investment Tax, which has been on the books for decades.
Hillsborough County Schools approved a referendum asking voters to approve a millage increase, which now puts the Community Investment Tax in the spotlight.
They have the votes. That was the big takeaway from a recent Hillsborough County Commission workshop over whether to put an extension of the Community Investment Tax to a November referendum. But what that ballot question would include is entirely unclear. Much of the discussion centered on eliminating the diverse priorities that made the tax palatable to a majority of voters when it first .