The Jonesboro City Council is expected to consider a proposed sales tax increase tomorrow night. If it is approved by the council, a special election for voters in Jonesboro would occur November 10th. On the ballot would be two sales tax increases, one for a 7/8 cent increase and the other for a 1/8 cent increase. 7/8 cents of the tax would go toward funding 20 transportation projects in the city and would generate just over 14 million dollars a year. The remaining 1/8 cent of the tax would go toward the development of the Jonesboro Economic Development Commission and would generate almost two million dollars a year. If approved, money would be collected starting next June and the tax would last for 10 years. That proposal is one of the many items that is on the agenda for tomorrow night’s meeting. It takes place at the Jonesboro Municipal Center at 5:30 pm.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.