The Assembly wants to know if voters would still want to exempt food from sales tax if that also meant one of the following: raising the year-round sales tax rate to 5.5%, raising the sales tax rate seasonally to 6%, or raising property taxes.
At the beginning of June, the Assembly was leaning toward asking. The questions would have paired the tax break with different options for new taxes to recoup most of the cost to the city.
But by the end of June, most Assembly members had become concerned about how those non-binding questions would look alongside separate, tax-related questions that will be on the ballot and are binding.
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