It was last Tuesday, November 26th, that the Danville City Council Public Services Committee forwarded to the full council a proposed all at once nine cents per gallon gasoline tax increase, in order to make up for 15 years of not charging what the city was supposed to be charging.
Now, during tomorrow (Dec 3rd) evening’s full Danville City Council meeting, there is a proposal to follow a suggestion that the increase be spread out over two years. Mayor Rickey Williams, Jr says a current city ordinance, written in about 2008 or 2009, calls for the increase to happen all at once. The mayor credits the work of City Comptroller Alyssa Sweeten and Corporation Counsel Leon Parker’s staff for bringing an ordinance calling for doing it differently to the full council.
AUDIO: That would spread it out over a two year period. Our comptroller worked on the general idea, to make sure that numbers could work for the budget. Our corporation counsel and assistant corporation counsel finalized the language for the (City) Council’s consideration.
Mayor Williams is hoping that a vote on the new budget and tax levy, which takes place every December for the new fiscal year coming in May, can still happen as planned. The city is required to have a tax levy proposal to the county by the end of December, which is the reason the budget is also usually figured out at the end of the year.
