Buried under hundreds of angry emails and calls, Mayor Sam Jones’s penny sales tax died in a 3-3-1 vote on Tax Day. As many as 300 city jobs are now in question.
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Counting to Five: The Sales Tax Vote Rests on One Council Member
Mayor Sam Jones has made his case for a penny sales tax. The measure was laid over Tuesday, and the arithmetic on a seven-member council now points to a single undecided vote.
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Jones Abandons Pay Cut, Asks Council for a Penny Sales Tax Increase
With city workers descending on City Hall, Mayor Sam Jones dropped his 10-percent pay cut and took a one-cent sales tax increase to the council’s finance committee instead.