(Audubon) At Monday’s City Council meeting, Audubon City Clerk Joe Foran reviewed the history of the Local Options Sales Tax and the intent for the revenue from the tax. The measure will be on the November ballot, and Foran wants the public to know what they are voting on.
Foran says the one percent local option sales tax was initiated in 2000. It stated in the ballot language that 100 percent of the revenue would be used for road construction and repair. During a fiscal year 2021 audit, the Auditors noted the restricted language in the ballot measures.
Foran says after this was discovered in the wording, the city had to move all the expenses shared between the two funds primarily to road use and some to the general fund.
Foran says if the measure on the ballot fails, they will have to begin looking at cuts to help out the general fund. He says the goal is to get back to what it was intended for.
