St. Francois County Joint Communications Center will be asking voters on April 6 to make permanent the 3/8-cent sales tax they last approved in 2014. The tax generates about $3 million annually for round-the-clock, emergency 911 dispatch services serving St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve counties.
The tax was scheduled to sunset this year, but due to the almost-total loss of the landline-phone tax—a tax whose decline drove the center to pursue the sales tax about seven years ago in the first place — the center relies “100%” on the revenue the 3/8-cent generates, said Director Alan Wells… READ MORE
