Attention Citizens of Sedalia! Council Moves for Call for Action

The County Commissioners owe you $548,000 as Sedalia’s portion of a 1/2 cent sales tax approved by you in 2000 and extended every five years since. The language in the ballot said “this money will be for improving and maintaining. . . for streets, sewer, water, and storm water projects in municipalities in Pettis County.”

The Commissioners have withheld this money because they don’t want the county’s buildings within the city limits to meet minimum building code standards for fire and safety regulations. The Commissioners think that by withholding this money they can force your City to not enforce the health and safety rules. The City will not be forced to compromise our citizens’ safety.

Call the Commissioners and demand that they distribute this tax as it was described in the ballot language and their press releases. They should be reminded that many of you voted for this tax, and all of you are certainly paying it yet receiving no benefit from it.