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GPET Resolution
The policy for the application process for City of Sheridan General Purpose Excise Tax Funds was first adopted in 2020 and amended in 2023 to guide the local nonprofit applicants through the City’s GPET funding process. City Clerk Ashlee Foster said that during the Fiscal Year 2026 application cycle, staff recognized a need to simplify the timeline and reduce redundancy across policy documents.
At Monday night’s City Council study session, Foster said that a resolution has been crafted with the goal of improving accountability and setting clearer expectations for both the City and funding recipients.
Foster said that eligibility remains unchanged, only non-profit and governmental organizations may apply for the GPET and that there are no changes to funding levels or the City’s adopted budget as a result of this resolution. It was not determined at Monday’s study session if the resolution would come before the City Council for consideration at their next business meeting on August 4.
Dennis Fox
July 29, 2025 at 5:32 pm
Always just the spending side. Never a story on the millions of dollars that are extracted from the hard-working citizens of Sheridan county and how they could put their own money to better use, if it wasn’t taken from them, via the state’s highest county sales tax.
And no story on the County Commissioners, just re-imposing the maximum, highest in Wyoming, Mill Rate Levy, which keeps our property taxes sky-high.
When will we learn that it’s our money and if the elected public servants are over-spending and mis-using OUR tax-dollars, that it’s up to us to remove them from office.
Lower Taxes Are Better!
Dennis Fox
July 30, 2025 at 1:00 pm
With a 3-2 vote, if just one of the 3 big-gov’t commissioners had changed their vote, we’d all be enjoying a nice tax break.
Gee thanks for keeping our taxes at the maximum allowed by law.
Thanks to commissioners Siddle, Wright and Haswell’s vote, the high-tax yoke stays on the backs of all of us.
Since one vote would have changed the outcome…that means that just one misguided person imposed millions in taxes on every property owner in Sheridan County.
Is that the way our Republic is supposed to operate?
Remember in 26, three commissioner seats come up and 2 of them are currently occupied by the high-taxers.
Just saying.
Dennis Fox
July 31, 2025 at 1:03 pm
Guess taxes are like the weather. Everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it.
Dennis Fox
August 2, 2025 at 9:59 pm
GPET will only be “Resolved” when we get rid of it.
It’s time to lift the high-tax burden off our backs and vote ourselves a Tax Break.
Lower Taxes Are Better.