The City of Harrison will ask voters to decide on a pair of sales tax issues that would provide funding for development and maintenance of a community center at the old junior high school building, along with other park improvements.Hometown Daily News reports the city council passed the ordinances last week to place the measures on the ballot and call the special election by a 7-1 vote, with council member Bill Boswell casting the only vote against the measures.
The measures would help fund the city’s plans for the former junior high property at Crooked Creek recently acquired from the Harrison School District.
In November 2019, Harrison voters decided against funding a $40 million community center complex.
In a special election, voters declined to pass two sales tax measures to fund the facility.
A three-quarter-cent sales tax would have gone toward building the facility and would have ceased to be collected after the bonds were paid off.
A permanent one-quarter-cent sales tax would have gone toward maintaining the complex.
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