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LOST Tax Removed From The August Primary Ballot
June 28, 2014
The renewal of the one-cent Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) in Escambia County won’t be on the August ballot.
Escambia County Commissioners voted to take the renewal off the ballot for now as they work through funding issues following the area’s historic floods in April.
The tax — which is used to fund infrastructure improvements like road paving, parks and construction of buildings like the new Ernest Ward Middle School — won’t expire until 2017. It’s not known when commissioners will put the tax, which must be approved by voters, back on the ballot. But it does not appear that it will make the ballot for November general election either.
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