{"id":1101,"date":"2018-08-30T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/08\/30\/local-trend-local-dedicated-transportation-funding-tax-source\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T22:37:00","slug":"local-trend-local-dedicated-transportation-funding-tax-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/local-trend-local-dedicated-transportation-funding-tax-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Trend. Local Dedicated Transportation Funding Tax Source."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City looking to impose a utility tax:<\/strong>\u00a0Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>What utilities would the tax apply to?\u00a0<\/strong>Memphis Light, Gas and Water bills and would operate like a stormwater tax<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would the tax be?<\/strong>\u00a0range from\u00a0$4.75 to $15<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the projected local revenue?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0$30 million in revenue each year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transportation projects to be funded?<\/strong>\u00a0offset the costs of road projects and create a dedicated source of funding for\u00a0Memphis Area Transit Authority<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/NewsBlog\/archives\/2018\/08\/29\/city-council-looks-to-implement-transportation-utility-fee\">Memphis Flyer |\u00a0City Council Looks to Implement Transportation Utility Fee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City looking to impose a utility tax:<\/strong>\u00a0Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>What utilities would the tax apply to?\u00a0<\/strong>Memphis Light, Gas and Water bills and would operate like a stormwater tax<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would the tax be?<\/strong>\u00a0range from\u00a0$4.75 to $15<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the projected local revenue?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0$30 million in revenue each year<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transportation projects to be funded?<\/strong>\u00a0offset the costs of road projects and create a dedicated source of funding for\u00a0Memphis Area Transit Authority<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/NewsBlog\/archives\/2018\/08\/29\/city-council-looks-to-implement-transportation-utility-fee\">Memphis Flyer |\u00a0City Council Looks to Implement Transportation\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-local-government","category-taxes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}