Measure to increase sales tax for city ‘dead’
Clinton City Manager Roger Houck told the City Council on Monday that pending legislation that would have increased the amount of sales tax the city would receive is dead.
The Tennessee General Assembly adjourned on Friday, April 21.
House and Senate bills dealing with sales tax reform died in committee with no action being taken on them.
If the proposed sales tax reform had passed and been signed into law by the governor, the Tennessee Municipal League estimates that the city of Clinton would have received an additional $185,000 annually in sales tax receipts.
Chris Phillips, finance director, reported to the council that the city was through 75 percent of the fiscal year with revenues at 100 percent and expenses at 83 percent of the budgeted amounts.
Mayor Scott Burton congratulated the Police Department on the receipt of a grant for body armor for K9s.
The city has agreed to purchase two new Dodge Durango vehicles for the Police Department.