{"id":982,"date":"2006-12-12T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/most-city-councilors-appear-to-back-spaceport-tax\/"},"modified":"2006-12-12T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T14:42:00","slug":"most-city-councilors-appear-to-back-spaceport-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/most-city-councilors-appear-to-back-spaceport-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Most city councilors appear to back spaceport tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Las Cruces City Council was receptive Monday to Do\u00f1a Ana County Commissioner Bill McCamley\u2019s presentation on the need for a 1\/4-percent increase in the gross receipts tax to help fund Spaceport America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Councilors directed staff to draft a resolution supporting the increase, which will be presented to the council at its Jan. 16 meeting, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Contrary to what was reported by the newspaper, the city council\u2019s resolution is not necessary. The county\u2019s resolution calling for a special election on April 3, assuming it receives final approval next month, is all that is required for an election, but McCamley is asking the governing boards of municipalities and school districts in the county to approve statements in support of the tax increase.<\/p>\n

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The Sun-News reported that there appeared to be \u201cpreliminary approval\u201d from the council. It was a work session, so the council could not legally vote on whether to support the increase.<\/p>\n

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The biggest questions came from Councilor Ken Miyagishima, who asked why a statewide tax couldn\u2019t be enacted, instead of just an increase in Do\u00f1a Ana, Otero and Sierra<\/st1:placename> Counties<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEverybody is going to benefit,\u201d the Sun-News quoted Miyagishima as saying. \u201cWhy should just these two or three counties pay for this when the whole state benefits?\u201d<\/p>\n

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McCamley pointed out that the state has already appropriated $115 million of the estimated $225-million cost of the facility and might authorize an additional $25 million during the 2007 legislative session, so the state is paying for more than half the cost.<\/p>\n

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The tax increase, McCamley said, amounts to 25 cents of every $100 spent.<\/p>\n

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Councilor Dolores Archuleta, according to the newspaper, said she could support the tax increase if it would decrease the city\u2019s poverty level.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think about the jobs it\u2019s going to bring, and break the poverty level we can\u2019t\u2026 seem to break,\u201d the newspaper quoted her as saying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Las Cruces City Council was receptive Monday to Do\u00f1a Ana County Commissioner Bill McCamley\u2019s presentation on the need for a 1\/4-percent increase in the gross receipts tax to help fund Spaceport America. Councilors directed staff to draft a resolution supporting the increase, which will be presented to the council at its Jan. 16 meeting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}