Taxes and Alternate Motor Fuel Taxes Te Working Group on Highway Funding included in
their recommendations the need to increase the tax on motor fuels and to index motor fuels to inflation. Indexing motor fuels will assist the revenues to increase with inflation (such as the consumer price index); to correct the systemic lack of growth in motor fuel tax revenues (purchasing power); and in providing revenues necessary to prevent further decline in the public infrastructure of state, city and county bridges and roadways and public safety. Likewise, a modest increase in the motor fuels tax rate is needed in response to decades of stagnation of revenues from motor fuels. Te CJAA supports indexing motor fuels and an increase in motor fuels and alternative fuels taxes. Twenty- seven states have recently increased their motor fuels taxes and wisely revised them to account for construction inflation.
AMENDMENT 95: Approved by the People Will Expire in 2023
County judges, mayors and the Arkansas State Highway Commission have a common task: to educate the citizens on the condition of their state and local roadways and bridges and the extent that additional revenues are needed to maintain or improve the conditions. Plainly, a modest increase in the motor fuels taxes and indexing motor fuel revenues will not be sufficient to bridge the gap between revenues and needs. Te Working Group as well recom- mended consideration of adoption of a sales tax devoted to state and local roads and bridges. Te people voted in favor of sales taxes being dedicated for roads and bridges under Amendment 95, which will expire in 2023. Adoption of sales taxes to be dedicated for roads and bridges should be afforded due consideration.
Left: Pulaski County Coroner Gerone Hobbs, AAC Chief Legal Counsel Mark Whitmore, and Pulaski County Attorney Chastity Scifres pose for a photo during a reception. Second from left: Newly elected NACo President Greg Cox, San Diego County Supervisor, says a few
words.Third from left: Eddie George, an NFL legend, entrepreneur and Renaissance man, delivers a mo- tivational speech. Right: Mary Mabry, customer service manager in the Pulaski County Treasurer/Collector’s office and Tawanna Brown, chief financial officer and DAV specialist in the Crittenden County Collector’s office, smile for the camera.
NACo draws record number of Arkansans
Conference. Te conference took place July 13-16, 2018, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center. Te conference featured a multitude of workshops, meetings and sessions. Topics included transportation, justice and public safety, county communications, crisis communication, veterans and military services, the opioid crisis, the 2020 Census, and much more. Additionally, county officials attended general sessions featuring motivational speakers and participated in the election of NACo officers. — Story and photos by Christy L. Smith
M COUNTY LINES, SUMMER 2018
ore than 70 county and district officials from Arkansas made the trip to Nashville, Tenn., in July to attend the National Association of Counties (NACo) 83rd Annual Summer
Above: Boone County Justice of the Peace David Thompson, AAC Governmental Affairs Director and Saline County Justice of the Peace Josh Curtis, Pulaski County Justice of the Peace Paul Elliott, Jefferson County Justice of the Peace Ted Hard- en, and Faulkner County Justice of the Peace Randy Higgins take a group photo during the Arkansas Delegates Reception.
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