Capital Improvement Program (CIP) Facts

I fear my diversion, or front-loaded digression, about what it took to find out certain information about the CIP might have obscurred the facts I was trying to get to readers about the latest election in which voters approved a 1/4-cent sales tax to fund the CIP. To simply get to the facts, I wanted to repost that information separately.

Capital Improvement Election Result Facts:

> The Capital Improvement Program's 1/4-cent sales tax was last approved by voters in February 2007.

> Total voter turn out for that election was 6.56 percent.

> Of the 104,041 registered voters in Greene County, at that time, the total number of registered voters who cast a ballot that day was 6,826.

> The County identified the CIP tax initiative on the ballot as, "CITY OF SPRINGFIELD QUESTION 1."

> The 3,941 registered voters who voted "yes" to the 1/4-cent CIP sales tax in the last election represented 72.55 percent of the 6.52 percent of registered voters who turned out that day.

> The 1,087 registered voters who voted "no" to the 1/4-cent CIP sales tax in the last election represented 27.45 percent of the 6.52 percent of registered voters who turned out for that election.

> Of the 6,826 registered voters who cast a ballot that February day in 2007, 5,028 cast a vote either for or against the CIP 1/4-cent sales tax, deciding the issue for the rest of the taxpayers in the City of Springfield.

> By a margin of 2,854 votes, the 1/4-cent Capital Improvement Program sales tax was passed.

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