Marshfield Voters Say No to Street Referendum
Wednesday, August 10th, 2016 -- 8:02 AM
(WDLB) -Marshfield voters have said "no" to a tax increase earmarked exclusively for street repair and reconstruction.By a nearly 2-to-1 margin, voters on Tuesday rejected a six-point-eight-million-dollar street referendum question, one-thousand-532 to 861. Alderman Chris Jockheck was a proponent of the referendum. He says it's frustrating that residents have identified street conditions as a major concern, and yet are not willing to pay more to rectify the problem.
The referendum would have taxed an additional one-dollar per one-thousand dollars of assessed value for five years, and would've raised five-million dollars for nine street projects which had been identified by city officials, plus another one-point-six million for numerous asphalt overlay projects. Just over 25-hundred of Marshfield's 10-thousand-600 registered voters went to the polls on Tuesday, for a citywide turnout of 24-percent. City Clerk Deb Hall had predicted 15-to-20 percent.
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