BIXBY, Okla. — Bixby residents have a big decision to make in this upcoming election that could impact the booming city’s roads.
2 News listened to residents’ thoughts and concerns about infrastructure and asked city officials for answers.
For over 30 years, a single-penny sales tax has funded capital improvement projects for public safety and sewers. That tax is about to expire.
Bixby residents will have the chance to vote to extend the sales tax for another three decades and reallocate some revenue toward critical road projects.
Bixby residents first approved a version of this single-penny sales tax in 1989, then voting in 1994 to renew it in its current form.
The city’s population has soared astronomically since that first vote.
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