Res Ipsa Loquitur

20% beats %50.

We had something similar in Billings about a year ago. There was a "safety levy" on the ballot, and if you gave it a cursory read, it sounded like it would be x mills one year, then a little more the year after, then a little more the year after that.

What most people didn't recognize was that it was a cumulative total. I don't remember the exact figures, but what they were getting was x mills the first year, then x + x + 1 mills the next, then 3x+1 the next, and so forth.

Now they're trying to repeal it, and of course the recipients of that funding (PD and FD) are screaming bloody murder that if the levy is revoked, there will be no officers on the streets and no fire coverage and so forth.

I think the repeal is on the ballot in November, but I'm not sure. I stopped caring a couple of months ago. :)

True Valerie, but it should've been 0%. The sewer plant was supposed to be up & running years ago, and I've yet to see a legitimate, plausible reason it's not. I was glad the road & trails thing passed though. That's been needed for a while.

That's what usually happens here when it's time for an added tax to expire. And there's always doom-mongering to get one passed. I remember one year when my kids were in elementary school, my daughter came home crying because all the teachers were telling the kids if their parents didn't vote for a millage increase, all these terrible things would happen at her school.

Which pissed me off so much that even though I'd been intending to vote for it, I voted against it.

The first two bonds(sewage) extended the current sales tax(sewage) other 2 years. It's to cover the "cost over-runs". The cost over-runs sounds like a mixture of true increased costs and some lack of administrative oversite. The 20% increase in the sewage bill, is the increased cost of operating the plant. You have to pay for the extra people and operating expenses. A increase sewage rate was know to occur when they first start the plant, they just didn't know how much it would be. On the whole, the taxes won't be bad. Fayetteville's city tax was less than other cities and this will make even with Sringdale, Rogers, Bentonville and Fort Smith. If you shop in Fayetteville, thank you very much for the money. I've seen the plans for the streets. It will make traveling in Fayetteville a whole lot easier.