Keyword: 'half-cent sales tax'

Keyword: half-cent sales tax

Hobbs signs transportation tax legislation to send to …

8/1/2023

PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs signed legislation Tuesday to allow Maricopa County voters to decide on extending a half-cent sales tax for transportation projects, setting the stage for the fight to come at the ballot box.

Valley municipalities fight for tax extension that …

6/12/2023

For nearly 20 years, Proposition 400, a half-cent sales tax approved by voters in 2005, has been funding some of the Valley’s most traveled roads, freeways and transit projects.

Hobbs negotiating with Republicans to craft deal to …

6/3/2023

PHOENIX — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs is directly negotiating with Republican lawmakers who control the Arizona Legislature to try to craft a deal to ask Maricopa County voters to extend a half-cent sales tax that for nearly 40 years has paid for new freeways, bus routes and light rail transportation projects.

Maricopa County transportation sales tax extension …

2/13/2023

PHOENIX — State lawmakers are moving to wrest control of transportation planning from local officials to instead represent their own political philosophies.

Maricopa County mayors sound off about governor’s …

7/22/2022

BUCKEYE — Buckeye Mayor Eric Orsborn often uses his comment time at the end of city council meetings for lighthearted or positive comments about recent events. That didn’t happen this …