Merriam, Kansas, Sales Tax Measure (January 2020)
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| Topic City tax and Local sales and use tax |
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Merriam Sales Tax Measure was on the ballot as a referral in Merriam on January 28, 2020. It was approved.
A “yes” vote supported levying a 0.25% sales tax for up to 10 years to fund street, bridge, and drainage improvements and to use the tax revenue to repay general obligation bonds issued for those projects. |
A “no” vote opposed levying a 0.25% sales tax for up to 10 years to fund street, bridge, and drainage improvements and to use the tax revenue to repay general obligation bonds issued for those projects. |
Election results
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Merriam Sales Tax Measure |
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1,595 | 79.63% | ||
| No | 408 | 20.37% | ||
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- Results are officially certified.
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Text of measure
Ballot title
The ballot title for Sales Tax Measure was as follows:
| “ | Shall the City of Merriam, Kansas be authorized to levy a special purpose city retailers’ sales tax in the amount of one-fourth of one percent (.25%) and to use revenue from such tax to pay the cost of improving certain City streets, bridges and associated drainage, which improvements may include grading, curbs, gutters, pavement and other surfacing, driveway entrances and structures, drainage work incidental thereto, service connections from utility mains, conduits or pipes necessarily lying within curb lines, streetlights, street lighting systems, storm water drains, retaining walls and area walls on public ways or land abutting thereon, sidewalks, street trees and landscaping, storm-water drainage projects, and all related improvements (“Improvements”) and all things necessary and related to such Improvements, and be authorized to pledge such sales tax for the payment of the principal and interest on general obligation bonds issued to pay the cost of such Improvements, provided that such retailers’ sales tax shall expire ten (10) years from the date it is first collected (expiration date of December 31, 2030), all pursuant to K.S.A. 12-187 et seq. | ” |
Path to the ballot
This measure was put on the ballot through a vote of the governing body of Merriam.
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