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Posted on August 6 at 11:50 p.m.
Meth, your TV example may be ok but your car example is not. As long as you register your car in Lyon county you will pay the Lyon county sales tax in the full amount on your car. It doesn't matter what the percent is in another county.
I have no doubt that the half of the sales tax that the county has earmarked for property tax relief will take place. I do question the use of the city share of that tax. All they have said, to my knowledge, is that they will use it for capital improvements. Does that mean they intend to pay for the capital improvements they have already borrowed money to pay for or does it mean they want to spend for new purchases when they are having difficulty paying for what they have? The city should be extremely appreciative of what the county has done for them. The county instigated the idea, the vote and the vote passed. The city now has over $2 million a year just dropped in their lap. Let's hope they have the management ability to take advantage of their good fortune and use it wisely. The county will be free of debt in about three years and their 1/2 percent sales tax will no longer be collected.
Posted on July 29 at 3:27 p.m.
Mayor, thank you for the detailed description of the sales tax issue. It seems to me there has been very minimal coverage of this proposal and the Gazette has done little to explain and publicize it. While nobody wants higher taxes this would seem like a pretty good solution for most local residents. It would certainly bail the city out of a very tight situation while lessening the property tax burden on every property owner in the city and county. I really do not understand why we have heard so little from those who usually voice opinions on this type of thing such as the Gazette, the Chamber and the City Manager. I have heard that they all want the sales tax issue to fail so they can come in and propose a city sales tax where the city would keep all the money and those outside the city would receive nothing but those paying the tax would remain roughly the same people. I would hope that this rumor is not true as it would simply be one more area where the city wanted to fight with the county and would also be one more reason not to shop in Emporia. Greed has a way of biting one in the butt. Working together is always the best policy.
Posted on July 17 at 11:59 p.m.
I think it would be really interesting to know how much of that $18 million came from numerous government entities. I'm guessing most of it was given to REG and that they have little or no money of their own. Notice their recent transactions were all stock deals requiring no cash money. How much of that seed money was provided by local governments? REG has to keep saying they will continue to build or some governement entity might want their money back and I'm betting REG has no money. My money says that deal will never be finished. Lenders are still loaning money to solid businesses.....REG is blaming the financial markets for their poor planning. How many of you would put $18 million into a project and have no idea how you were going to finish it? Even if all the $18 million was given to you. Something fishy here.
Posted on July 10 at 8:58 p.m.
powercat, you need an attitude adjustment and some enlightenment. For your information, the county is in fine shape, it's the city that is in trouble. And go back and read where the sales tax proceeds would go if it is approved. The city would get the lion's share of the money on that deal too. The county commission has done a reasonably good job, not so sure you can say that about the city commission. Learn the facts so you can be a better representative of the powercat name It's nice the county has stepped in to try and make the community a better place to live. Doesn't seem that the city fathers are aimed in that direction.
Posted on July 5 at 11:14 a.m.
Driving through Emporia yesterday evening it was about as dead as I've ever seen it. I couldn't help but think if there were several thousand people milling about with 4th of July activities they would probably have spent a lot more money that those fireworks would have cost. Wonder if the city fathers gave that any thought?
Posted on July 3 at 1:32 p.m.
I'd sure vote for Lisa. She knows the job, she knows the people she would be working with and they know her.
Posted on June 30 at 8:34 p.m.
From what I've read we have 12 fireworks stands selling fireworks but, supposedly, a complete ban on shooting them off in the city. Soooo where will they be shot off? Well, I'm guessing the county wll receive the honor of trespassers and trashed up roads etc. But that is ok as it will get the burden out of the city. This is a fine display of city - county cooperation by the city. Surely they could have, at least, designated some of the city parks or the fairgrounds as public shooting areas and let people enjoy their fireworks. The city has just given this whole situation no prior thought.
Posted on June 30 at 8:02 p.m.
Smith seems to have plenty of manpower to enforce the fireworks shooting. I do grow weary of hearing folks continually whining about not being able to do their jobs because they don't have enough money. Few of us do have enough money. And we just never hear of any efforts to figure out ways to do jobs more efficiently....just that there isn't enough money. He must have thought there was enough money when he took the job.
Posted on June 25 at 10:51 p.m.
Some years back I was attending a meeting where Steve Commons was present. It was winter and a number of folks were complaining to Commons about the awful snow removal. Commons response was "God put it there, He will take it away", At the time I thought he was kidding....later I decided he wasn't. Just imagine how bad things would be if we only had 3 commissioners and no six figure city manager!
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Posted on August 28 at 4:07 p.m.
Surely Frevert can find something useful to spend money on instead of a big brother watch system. Does he stay up late at night thinking up ways to fritter off someone else's money? He needs more worthwhile work to do than to spy on every county employee. Suppose he'd want to hire another person to watch how long employees go to the bath room. If the employees can't be trusted then they should not be working there. This is a ridiculous waste of tax dollars. He needs more work assignments to keep him busy. Sounds like he is trying to expand his own little empire rather than understanding he works for the county tax payers. I hope the commissioners can see through this awful waste of money.
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