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City Council to Consider GPET Service Agreements
Funding requests from local nonprofit agencies for General Purpose Excise Tax funds from the City of Sheridan will be considered by the City Council at their regular business meeting Monday night. Sheridan Mayor Rich Bridger talks about the process of vetting the applicants.
The Council will also be receiving an update from Building Supervisor Jessie Koltiska and a budget timeline for the upcoming fiscal year from City Administrator Stu McRae. The City Council meeting will be Monday at 5:30 pm in Council Chambers on the third floor of Sheridan City Hall.
Dennis Fox
April 19, 2025 at 1:49 pm
Forced-taxation should not be used for anything except police, courts and basic infrastructure.
It is unconstitutional and therefore illegal to give-away tax dollars to private organizations that also accept voluntary donations.
It’s right there in the Wyo Constitution. Read it!
If our electeds would stop squandering our tax money, maybe we could vote ourselves some much-needed Tax Relief!
Lower Taxes Are Better!
Dennis Fox
April 22, 2025 at 6:09 pm
It was a foregone conclusion. the Sheridan Socialist will only stop their wasteful spending habits, when we limit the amount of our money the get their hands on.
We need to vote “Against” the Generally mis-Purposed Excess Tax in 2026.
The only way to limit gov’t waste and mis-use of our money is to limit the amount of our money they take from us.
Lower Taxes are better.
Dennis Luszcz
April 24, 2025 at 6:53 am
NGO’s are entities that should be financed by donations from voluntary supporters that agree with the NGO mission and projects. My tax money should not be donated to NGO’s I may not agree with against my wishes. Some of the recipients of the GPET monies do good work which I might agree with but others may not.
Another problem is that these grants represent a slush fund that politicians can hand out without any guarantees on what the money is planned to used for and no checks on how it was actually spent. This is no way to do business.
One NGO in particular has received grants for several years and may be spending this money on a project that may be doing damage to something of interest to County residents. I am a retired state wildlife biologist. Research has repeatedly shown that catch neuter and release of feral cats can be doing great damage to songbirds and other native wildlife. I object to my tax money may be used for this. These grants are not being responsibly managed at the very least. We need to hold our elected officials accountable on how our tax monies are being spent
Dennis Fox
April 28, 2025 at 10:23 pm
The best way to “hold our electeds accountable” is to limit the amount of OUR money that THEY can get their hands on.
That’s by voting “Against” re-imposing the Generally (mis) Purposed One-Percent Excess Tax (GPET). That EXcess Sales Tax has been misused for decades and has, in fact, become a “Slush Fund” that politicians use to buy votes from Special interest groups and NGO’s.
Let’s vote our selves a temporary tax break in 2026 and end this mis-use of our hard-earned money!
Lower Taxes Are Better!