Flood Protection Sales Tax | Video

Julie Leonardi | 2/27/2013

A city council committee has passed an ordinance that would add a one cent sales tax to Minot. Starting in July 2014, funds from a one cent sales tax will help the city build a flood control project. Half the proceeds will go to flood protection and the other half will go to community improvement projects, job growth, and property tax relief.

The current one cent sales tax is set to expire. In 2012, it raised $13.4 million.

City of Minot Finance Director, Cindy Hemphill, is for the proposed tax. “I think that we really need to show the people of North Dakota, including our state legislature and the citizens of Minot, that the city is dedicated to providing protection to the citizens and that we don`t want to have anyone experience what happened here in 2011. We are determined to make this work.”

The sales tax proposal will be voted on Monday at the city council meeting.

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