Normal Town Council to discuss sales tax revenue next week

Posted on September 29, 2015

By Joe Ragusa

NORMAL – The town of Normal will start collecting one-percent more in sales tax starting Jan. 1, but what that revenue will be spent on is still up in the air.

Some members of the Normal Town Council have expressed interest in using the money to fund a new soccer complex. Normal City Manager Mark Peterson told WJBC’s Dan Swaney the idea shouldn’t be written off.

“As we reach out and try to attract new investment and new jobs and businesses here, those are things companies look for,” Peterson said. “So I wouldn’t consider it just a want. Now, it’s not the highest priority that we have, but I think at some point as a community we need to address that issue.”

Bloomington also passed a one-percent sales tax increase and is going to use 75 percent of the new revenue for road resurfacing and its structural deficit.

The Normal Town Council will meet Oct. 5 to figure out what it will do with the revenue it receives from the sales tax increase.

Joe Ragusa can be reached at [email protected].

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