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Valley municipalities fight for tax extension that will affect future generations

Officials want Proposition 400 on ballot by 2024

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.

The tax will sunset in 2025, so legislators are at work on an extension, but some aren’t seeing eye-to-eye, with Gov. Katie Hobbs saying she has a deal backed by a majority of lawmakers from both parties to let Maricopa County voters decide on the tax.

Meanwhile, GOP leaders have their own plan.

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