Yesterday's Southern Illinoisan has a editorial lauding Brad Cole's service as mayor of Carbondale. As a reader pointed out in an email, most of the facts in this paragraph about the tax increase passed for Saluki Way are, well, wrong:
Among the accomplishments in Cole's career have been the building of a new public safety center, giving Carbondale Police Department a sorely needed new building. And no mention of Cole's tenure is likely to go without a comment on the Saluki Way project, for which Carbondale implemented a 1 percent sales tax increase for 10 years to help pay $10 million toward construction of new facilities, most notably a new Saluki Stadium and revamped SIU Arena.
The sales tax increase was 1/2% not 1%, it lasts for 20 years not 10, and pays $20 million towards construction, not $10 million. You'd think the editorial writers at the Southern would read their own paper.
Among the accomplishments in Cole's career have been the building of a new public safety center, giving Carbondale Police Department a sorely needed new building. And no mention of Cole's tenure is likely to go without a comment on the Saluki Way project, for which Carbondale implemented a 1 percent sales tax increase for 10 years to help pay $10 million toward construction of new facilities, most notably a new Saluki Stadium and revamped SIU Arena.
The sales tax increase was 1/2% not 1%, it lasts for 20 years not 10, and pays $20 million towards construction, not $10 million. You'd think the editorial writers at the Southern would read their own paper.
And I'm sure you know, Scott, so this is more for anyone out there that doesn't:
ReplyDeleteA quarter-percent of that increase was for Saluki Way. The other quarter was for the construction of the Public Safety Center and new fire station.
"Haven't you heard?" Nobody reads newspapers.
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