Pinal County residents may vote in November on half-cent sales tax increase to fund roadwork
by Richard H Dyer | Apache Junction/Gold Canyon Independent
The Pinal County Board of Supervisors plans to call for a November mail-in election for voters to decide if a half-cent sales tax can be added to raise $640 million for roadwork, the Apache Junction City Council was told March 6.
The tax rate is presently 9.1 percent in Apache Junction, according to www.ajcity.net/115/Tax-License.
“We identified about $1.4 billion in need but with this particular plan we’re coming up with only about $640 million … with a 20-year half-cent sales tax,” Andrew Smith, transportation principal planner for Pinal County, said at last Tuesday’s council meeting.
“If the citizens and the county approve that, would it get allocated to each of the individual cities to do work or just the county?” Mayor Jeff Serdy asked at the meeting.
