{"id":312951,"date":"2026-08-03T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312951\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:12:09","slug":"riley-county-commission-opts-to-not-renew-road-and-bridge-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312951\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley County commission opts to not renew road and bridge sales tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riley County commissioners on Monday chose to not add the renewal of a 0.2% countywide retailers sales tax to the Election Day ballot. The tax generates about $2.5 million annually for road and bridge projects.<\/p>\n

The proposal intended to continue the county\u2019s existing 0.2% retail sales tax, which is set to expire Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a continuation of the current sales tax,\u201d assistant county counselor Michael Hawthorne told commissioners. \u201cIf approved by voters, it would become effective only after the existing sales tax expires at the end of 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n

To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Riley County commissioners on Monday chose to not add the renewal of a 0.2% countywide retailers sales tax…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-312951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}