{"id":8362,"date":"2013-02-06T17:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T01:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/chamber-dont-use-bo-tax-revenue-for-256th-street-project\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T18:10:29","slug":"chamber-dont-use-bo-tax-revenue-for-256th-street-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/chamber-dont-use-bo-tax-revenue-for-256th-street-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber: don&#8217;t use B&amp;O tax revenue for 256th Street project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Kent Chamber of Commerce disapproves of the use of business and occupation (B&amp;O) tax revenue to pay for a portion of the maintenance and improvements to Southeast 256th Street on the East Hill.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>While this project needs to happen, it was not on a list of priorities established by the citizens advisory committee when transportation projects and funding were recently being analyzed by the City Council.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This project should be able to be fully funded with the city&#8217;s normal revenue sources as such projects were to be funded prior to adoption of the B&amp;O tax.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The chamber reluctantly supported the B&amp;O tax as a revenue source for the highest priority transportation needs in the city, as identified by the citizens advisory committee. Using B&amp;O tax revenue to repair and upgrade 256th Street will divert those funds from projects that were deemed more important for the city by that committee.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Andrea Keikkala, executive director, Kent Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent Chamber of Commerce disapproves of the use of business and occupation (B&amp;O) tax revenue to pay for a portion of the maintenance and improvements to Southeast 256th Street on the East Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}