SEQUIM – The City of Sequim’s Transportation Benefit District tax (or TBD) has been in place since 2010, but it sunsets this year, so city residents will be voting on whether or not to renew it in November.
A mailer that will be going out to voters soon says Proposition 1 will extend for 10 more years the collection of a 0.2% sales tax (the equivalent of 4 cents on a $20 purchase) on goods and services sold inside the Sequim City limits. All the money collected is used for transportation projects in the City.
The mailer says that over two-thirds of the tax is paid by people who don’t live in Sequim, and Public Works Director David Garlington thinks it’s probably even more than that.
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Since 2010, over $5 million has been raised by the TBD sales tax, over $700,000 in 2017 alone.
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Renewal of the TBD sales tax for an additional ten years will be on the November 6 ballot as City of Sequim Proposition 1. Only City of Sequim residents will be able to vote on the issue.