Council Approves $389,000 in GPET Funding Requests

The Sheridan City Council considered requests from the applicants who applied for General Purpose Excise Tax funding at their regularly scheduled business meeting Monday night. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter has the details.

There were 16 applicants who applied for GPET funding and all of the organizations received a certain amount of the funds except for the North Main Association. In total, the Council approved $389,000 to be allocated to the 15 different organizations. Sheridan Mayor Rich Bridger.

The Council also approved second reading of an ordinance to raise the salary of council members from $500 a month to $1,000 and accepted the financial audit for fiscal year 2021 that was conducted by Porter, Muirhead, Cornia and Howard. We’ll have more from the council meeting for you in future stories.