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Hillsborough County half-percent sales tax for transit plan goes public

Published on June 11, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Cautious optimism seemed to be the mood espoused by many members of both the public and lawmakers this afternoon after Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill and Bob Clifford with transportation consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff delivered many (but not all) of the fine details of a proposed half-percent sales transit tax that could go before Hillsborough County voters in the fall of 2016 today. “We are ranked the 11th worst area for traffic congestion in the United States, and that’s something that I don’t…

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Transit activists unhappy with reported Hillsborough transit tax proposal

Published on June 10, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill was briefing some members of the Hillsborough County Commission Wednesday afternoon, a day before he’ll unveil before the public his recommendations on how the county should address its huge transportation needs. As first reported by the Tampa Tribune’s Mike Salinero, Merrill will propose that commissioners put a half-cent sales transit tax on the 2016 ballot, but with only 30 percent of those funds being allocated to mass transit. Sixty percent would be for building and rebuilding…

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Mitch Perry Report for 6.10.15 — Game changing developments?

Published on June 10, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

The big news locally this morning is Mike Salinero’s exclusive in the Tampa Tribune that Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill is prepared to recommend to the Board of County Commissioners and Mayor Bob Buckhorn tomorrow that a half-cent sales transit tax be put on the ballot in 2016, with 60 percent of those funds collected going to roads and bridges, and only 30 percent for mass transit. We’ll undoubtedly follow up, and we’ll all get the official details tomorrow. But I can…

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New report on Hillsborough transit users puts ‘maintenance’ as top priority

Published on April 7, 2015 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Will there be a transit tax referendum placed on the 2016 Hillsborough County ballot? That question remains uncertain more than a year and a half out, which is why the ongoing public outreach effort called “Go Hillsborough” is so important. The effort has consisted of a series of public forums and some telephone town halls to generate what is most on the minds of Hillsborough citizens when it comes to making transit improvements. The results so far have been listed in…

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