Will a sales tax for WRTA be on March ballot?


December 5, 2007 at 7:03p.m.

Will a sales tax for WRTA be on March ballot?

YOUNGSTOWN — Officials from the Mahoning County Department of Job and Family Services met today with Mahoning County commissioners and Western Reserve Transit Authority officials to discuss the WRTA’s attempt to put a 0.25-percent sales tax on the ballot in March for countywide transportation.

WRTA officials are seeking backing from the commissioners for putting the request on the ballot, but commissioners were undecided on whether to give that support.

Judee Genetin, acting director of the JFS, said the loss in September of some of WRTA’s busing routes on weekends and evenings has added about $20,000 per month to their cost of providing transportation help to clients who need rides to help them hold down jobs.

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