Friday, April 23, 2010

Public Hearing - Sales Tax Increase

Don't forget that there is a public hearing on Monday @ 7:30PM as part of the city council meeting.

The purpose of the public hearing will be to review an application for a community improvement district at 10 Quivira Plaza (Shawnee Mission P'kwy and Quivira Rd). This is the shopping center that contains, among others, the Price Chopper store. If approved, the CID will include a 1% sales tax increase just on the stores in that shopping center.

Since this involves a sales tax increase it is important that folks attend and voice their objections or concurrences with the proposed sales tax increase.

Funny little side note: I did not notice any info in this past Wednesday's Shawnee Dispatch about this........as a reminder to the public. I guess that the possibility of a sales tax increase is not a newsworthy item. It's almost like somebody wanted to keep this under the radar so to speak.