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JPs call for sales tax holiday |
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Friday, 20 February 2009 |
Saline County justices of the peace adopted a resolution encouraging the state to adopt a sales tax holiday.
The Quorum Court approved several other ordinances at its regular meeting on Tuesday.
JP Doug Curtis, R-Benton, chairman of the Finance and Personnel Committee, said he hopes the state enacts such a day to help stimulate the economy.
“They did this in Texas and in the parking lot there were nothing but cars with Arkansas licenses,” he said.
The resolution sets forth no action on the Quorum Court’s part. It does not suggest what goods or services for the state to exempt. It simply is a formality to encourage the 2009 legislative session to enact the tax relief day.
Sales tax holidays are an “emerging tax relief trend that states are consistently enacting and extending to decrease the tax burden on their citizens during these troubled economic times,” the resolution states.
It further states, “the state of Arkansas currently has a state budget surplus of over $300 million and could afford to provide tax relief for its citizens during this time of surplus without having to provide additional permanent tax reductions.”
In other business, JPs approved the following ordinances:
•Appropriating $5,000 from the county general fund to the public defender fund.
•Re-appropriating $36,518.95 from the 2008 budget to complete the tower installations at Sardis and Paron.
•Appropriating $7,500 from the prosecuting attorney’s office as asset forfeitures to the special projects drug control program of the Sheriff’s Office.
•Appropriating $16,923.35 from the 2008 budget to complete the parking lot project at South and East streets.
•Appropriating $7,562.04 for the 911 emergency fund for house numbering.
Confirmed to the Public Facilities Board were Jim Shults, Eddie Black and Harry Allen.
Eric Scruggs and Robert Berry were confirmed to the Lake Norrell Fire District Board.
And confirmed to the Saline County Planning Board were Eric E. Krebs and Michael Darren Baker.
No action was taken, but Quorum Court members again heard from opponents to the Rock Island Parkway plan.
The county seeks to turn the old Rock Island Railroad into a road fit for commercial and individual use. Residents in the area near Bauxite and in the eastern part of the county leading up to Little Rock are concerned of the project’s possible encroachment of their property.
County Judge Lanny Fite said results from a lengthy survey process to determine who owns the property along the old railroad should be available by next month’s Quorum Court meeting.
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