Last week the Sedgwick County Election Office notified the Wichita City Council that changes impacting polling locations would affect over 26,000 voters in Wichita ahead of the March 3rd special election regarding a proposed 1% sales tax increase in Wichita. Eleven of the county’s regular polling locations won’t be available. They also stated that the need for alternative polling locations increases the cost to hold the special election by $20,000, bringing the total cost to $170,000. That cost includes sending postcards with updated locations to the impacted voters. Wichita Mayor Lily Wu spoke Monday morning on KNSS' Woodward and Whit.
The City of Wichita will pay for the election from the city manager’s contingency budget. They remind voters that a public workshop “to discuss an administrative structure for the management and distribution of the collection from the proposed sales tax increase,” is set for 9 a.m. Jan. 27 at City Hall. A group opposing the proposed 1% sales tax increase in Wichita, the “Save Taxpayers No Coalition” argue in part that the proposal is “too big, too vague and too rushed.”