Street tax option for city
In July, the Sequim City Council placed a Transportation Benefit District initiative on the ballot. It provides for revenues to be used exclusively for approved city transportation projects. A two-tenths of 1 percent increase in city sales-and-use taxes would be levied on certain items and services; the cost of a $10 purchase would increase by 2 cents. Necessities such as groceries, prescriptions, gasoline, rent, insurance and mortgages would not be affected.