Street Maintenance Election
It’s time to renew our street maintenance sales tax.
- Voting yes does not increase your taxes. The local sales tax is 2%. Of this, state law allows 1% to go to the general fund, 0.50% goes to the Westbank Library District, and the remaining 0.50% must be allocated by the voters.
- In 2021, voters elected to switch the use of the 0.50% from property tax reduction to street maintenance through 2025. Historically, we didn’t have a reliable source of consistent funding for street maintenance. Voters determined having such a source of funding would allow better planning and consistent, methodical improvements to our streets.
- Voting yes guarantees a dedicated funding source for street maintenance in WLH.
- Voting no in this election will simply cause us to lose the right to collect the additional 0.50%.
Early Voting:
Starts
Monday October 20
Ends
Friday October 31
Election Day is November 4th, 2025.
What we have learned from our experience:
- Projects will be identified and scheduled so the most disruptive work will occur May to August to take advantage of the typical summer exodus.
- Each fall, recommendations for the following year will be put forward to ZAPCO and City Council. We will engage in public outreach prior to the ZAPCO meeting. Our hope is that at the ZAPCO meeting, interested residents will provide their feedback so we may adjust in a timely fashion.
- We will additionally schedule a spring open house to walk through projects that will be performed in the summer.
- Street maintenance treatment options include crack sealing, mill/overlay, surface preservation, and a complete rebuild. Appropriate treatment will be determined by the streets’ circumstances.
- All of the approved treatments above have a lifespan of 3-20 years – shortest being crack seal, longest being a complete rebuild.
- We have eight years of work ahead with projected sales tax revenue to effectively address our existing street maintenance needs.
- Once each street receives the required repairs, it will still need to be maintained into the future as the repairs degrade, necessitating the continual appropriation of these funds through a sales-tax election.
Paid For By James Vaughan Individually