Local option gas tax CPI adjustment
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A next policy issue, another FAC proposal. Um this is another one where the state has the ability um to uh uh uh have a um the the local Tax revenues increase with cost of living on that. So wanna uh have our county engineer Nick Juren come up here and explain a little bit of what we're seeking. It's just a parody uh across the board uh with the state um as we try to cover the
cost of increases for construction for transportation.
Good morning. Nick Uren, uh County Engineer for Pasco County. Pleasure to meet.
We've all been saying his last name wrong. Wait,
I but I've been saying it wrong for twenty yeah
the
whole time that my wife and I have been married. So Yeah, I I say along you, you ran. But anyway, it's nice to meet you. Uh short story of this is there there is a um escalation clause written into statute that allows for the local taxes plus the SKTS taxes to increase over time based on the consumer price index. But local taxes are a fixed rate. per gallon, so only the sketch tax gets the benefit of the increase in the consumer price index
over time. So what we are suggesting with this proposal is that both the local taxes, the one through twelve cent local option fuel taxes that County Commissioners have the ability to levy are also able to be increased based on the increases in the consumer price index over time. And that basically allows us to maintain our purchasing power to construct the infrastructure necessary to produce a thriving a transportation network to support a thriving community.
The Pasco's at twelve cents. We we have chosen to levy all twelve local option gas tax cents. We are at the cap. That's correct. And we use that revenue as for a combination of maintenance. We we t we designate seven cents of the twelve toward the maintenance of our transportation system that's already existing, and five cents of that twelve goes toward the expansion of that system to accommodate growth and influx of new residents, businesses, etc. But over time, that just like the Federal tax rate is capped at 18.3 cents
per gallon, the the purchasing power of that revenue stream has substantially diminished since its inception. And we're just looking for ways to uh keep pace with the the growth and the challenge of our system.
Yes, is that part of the twelve cents? It is not. The MSTU that we established is a local ad valorem tax that would be a designated revenue stream for the maintenance of our transportation system as well. Again, looking at ways to supplement the failing revenue stream of the local option gas tax in keeping pace with our needs.
For Pasco. So that that one, the Penny for Pasco sales tax was re-established for a new 15-year period beginning in two weeks. Um our third generation of Penny for Pasco is gonna begin January first of twenty-five and it's gonna run through the end of calendar year twenty thirty-nine, so a full fifteen year period. Going from memory, the allocation of our penny for Pasco revenue, 45 percent of that total revenue received goes to the county government. And of that revenue,
forty percent is diverted to transportation. to the improvement of our transportation system generally primarily focused on multimodal transportation. How are we building connected pathways and facilities for bicycle and pedestrian users in Pasco County? But we do have the ability to also use that revenue to install traffic signals, to regulate improv and improve safety at intersections. And minor capacity projects. But it's not a designated stream large enough to fund some of our significant
capacity investments needed.
impact fee for all the development that's occurring.
Oh yeah.
Yes.
We have and we have mobility fees. We were the first one in the state to have
Good ordinance gotta be a chunk of change, but
It's and it's not enough. You hear all the time people complaining about crowded roads. So
we have a multimodal mobility fee that we assess as well, and it looks at the need to construct capacity on our road network as well as the bike pad component, the right-of-way component, uh transit is a component of our mobility fee, as well as the construction of roads on the strategic intermodal system or parallel facilities to to support those. So we look at things like the extension of Rangeland Boulevard as a reliever to Stay Road 54. as a use of uh mobility fees paid by developers to uh improve the
quality of service on the on the state road network as a parallel SIS facility.
You know, some of the big expenses that we've had in transportation that come to mind for me is um of course Ridge Road. Who remembers who knows the total bill for Ridge Road? Anyone here know that?
It's a nine figure number.
Then we had we we ourselves pretty much we got I think we got some help from you um did the overpass uh on seventy five. Normally that's picked up by someone else, not the local county when you're building an overpass, you know, exchange and it An interchange. I think that's the right word. Interchange. Um, does anyone know the number that we paid on that?
It's close to twenty.
At least
twenty.
I just remember Secretary Prasad saying, Why are you guys paying for that yourself? you
know. Um I have a meeting a week after Christmas with Secretary uh Purdue, so Oh nice.
Is FAC making is that a Yes, these are these are big ones.
Yeah.
Of course we have 5441 looming uh ahead of us, which is another big one. Right away. Oh my goodness.