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Higher sales taxes being pursued as Sebastopol faces looming crisis
Sales taxes could rise above 10% in Sebastopol if city and county measures pass this November. It is looking more likely that Sebastopol voters will be asked to raise sales taxes in November. The Sebastopol city council, by a 3-2 vote, has authorized a poll to test support for raising the city's nine and a quarter percent sales tax by another quarter or half of a percent. The city of 7,500 is staring down a budget crisis. City Manager Don Schwartz laid out its scale to the council. "The general fund, long term prospects roughly $4.3 million plus, a year is what we...
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