Ballot Language for
Shall the following be adopted?
Shall the City of Overland Park, Kansas, be
authorized to levy a one-eighth of one percent (0.125%)
Special Purpose City Retailers’ Sales Tax within the City of Overland Park,
Kansas, and to use the revenue from the new tax to fund a residential street
improvement program consisting of neighborhood residential street
reconstruction, curb replacement, new sidewalks and street light upgrades, and
to continue to fund a thoroughfare street improvement program, with each
program to receive as nearly as possible one-half of the new tax revenue, such
new tax to take effect on April 1, 2009, the day following expiration of the
existing one-eighth of one percent (0.125%) City Retailers’ Sales Tax; such new
tax to end March 31, 2014; and such new tax to be in addition to the ongoing
one percent (1.0%) City Retailers’ Sales Tax currently levied?