8/28/2009
Individual votes, Outagamie Co. Sales Tax
As you may have read here earlier this week, Resolution No. 48, taken up by the Outagamie County Board Tuesday night, would have authorized “the formation of the County Sales Tax Study Ad Hoc Committee to study issues related to reducing the property tax levy, ramifications of a county sales tax to businesses and taxpayers and what goods and services will be subject to the use tax."
Resolution No. 48 was defeated by the County Board Tuesday night by supervisors committed to nixing any new sales tax in Outagamie County before it so much as sprouted.
Those Supervisors voting against the Resolution, i.e., opposing a county sales tax or even the study of it were (Thunes was absent):
Anthony, Shiocton
Beckley, Appleton
Culbertson, Greenville
Defferding, Appleton
Duncan, Grand Chute
Hofacker, Ellington
Steineke, Vandenbroek
Kramer, Freedom
Mahan, Appleton
McAndrews, Buchanan
Mueller, Appleton
Pleuss, Grand Chute
Schmidt, C., Appleton
Stevens, Grand Chute
Stueck, Appleton
Thern, New London
Vanden Heuvel, Little Chute
Ware, Appleton
Weyenberg, Black Creek
Those Supervisors voting in favor of the Resolution, i.e., willing to look at the possibility of a county sales tax in the future were:
Austin, Oneida
De Groot, Little Chute
Gitter, Hortonville
Gosse, Appleton
Hammen, Kimberly
Herner, Appleton
Hirte, Kaukauna
Janssen, Appleton
McDaniel, Kaukauna
Nagler, Appleton
Rabec, Appleton
Sanderfoot, Kimberly
Schmidt, A., Greenville
Schommer, Kaukauna
Schuette, Seymour
Strauch, Appleton
The County Board also took up Resolution No. 53 Tuesday night, which would approve placing a moratorium on the enactment of any size sales tax until the 2015 budget, unless a majority of the Board voted to set aside such moratorium.
Those Supervisors voting in favor of the sales tax moratorium were (Thunes was absent):
Anthony, Shiocton
Austin, Oneida
Beckley, Appleton
Culbertson, Greenville
Defferding, Appleton
Duncan, Grand Chute
Gosse, Appleton
Herner, Appleton
Hirte, Kaukauna
Hofacker, Ellington
Jim Steineke, Vandenbroek
Kramer, Freedom
Mahan, Appleton
McAndrews, Buchanan
Mueller, Appleton
Pleuss, Grand Chute
Rabec, Appleton
Schmidt, A., Greenville
Schmidt, C., Appleton
Schommer, Kaukauna
Schuette, Seymour
Stevens, Grand Chute
Stueck, Appleton
Thern, New London
Vanden Heuvel, Little Chute
Weyenberg, Black Creek
Those Supervisors voting against the sales tax moratorium were:
Nagler, Appleton (abstained)
De Groot, Little Chute
Gitter, Hortonville
Hammen, Kimberly
Janssen, Appleton
McDaniel, Kaukauna
Sanderfoot, Kimberly
Strauch, Appleton
Ware, Appleton
Perhaps this is good information to print out and remember at election time next year….
Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net
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