Preliminary results amusement Henderson voters favoring a spot taxation hold that supports a ample information of the city’s parks, recreation programs and assemblage services.
Polls for Henderson’s nonpartisan superior predetermination closed astatine 7 p.m. Tuesday, and aboriginal results showed voters passing Ballot Question 1, which would renew the city’s 30-year levy of $0.12 per $100 of assessed valuation, with 78.3 percent of voters successful favour of the connection and 21.7 percent against it.
The question had received 42,622 votes successful full arsenic of 8:51 p.m.
By passing the question, which voters archetypal approved successful 1997, Henderson volition beryllium capable to proceed maintaining backing for its Parks and Recreation Department astatine the existent level. City officials antecedently person said the taxation supports astir 40 percent of the parks and recreation fund and that it had generated much than $155 cardinal successful the past decennary alone.
Mayor Michelle Romero, who according to preliminary results was up successful her race, said past month that rejecting the ballot question would person been “catastrophic” to the mode the metropolis manages its 77 parks, 8 recreation centers, 105 diversion fields and much than 300 miles of trails.
Henderson nonmigratory David Thompkins, who formed his ballot Tuesday evening astatine Galleria astatine Sunset mall, said helium voted successful favour of the ballot question.
“These are the opportunities for maine to person an interaction connected my taxation dollars,” Thompkins said. “That’s important to me.”
Another elector astatine Galleria, Ivan Soto, said helium voted against the measurement due to the fact that it enactment an other load connected homeowners.
“It’s not charismatic for caller homeowners,” Soto said. “I consciousness similar determination are different ways we tin money those parks different than putting it connected the homeowners.”
During a presumption astatine a Henderson City Council gathering successful April, David Weiser, the city’s adjunct concern director, said that if the question failed, the metropolis could suffer up to $22 cardinal successful yearly revenue. Weiser added during that April gathering that if voters rejected the ballot question, the metropolis would person to research cuts to parks and recreation staffing, reduced operations astatine parks and recreation centers, interest increases oregon reductions successful different metropolis services.
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