Monday, October 31, 2005

Gas Tax Extension?

On tomorrow's Hernando County Commission agenda is a request from Charles Mixson to schedule a public hearing on November 15, 2005 at 10 a.m. to consider a proposed ordinance to extend the Local Option Gas Tax for 10 years. In addition to extending the two cent Local Option Fuel Tax, a recommendation to create a Pavement Management Program is requested to allow allocation of funds for both collector and residential roads based on the most cost effective method to reconstruct, resurface or overlay each roadway with no greater emphasis on either roads, collector or residential. A question begs to be asked in light of this current request for the creation of a Pavement Management Program which is, "What happened to the penny-forever Local Option Fuel Tax that was approved in 1999 for this very maintenance program?"

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