LITTLE ROCK IS IN A VIRUS PANDEMIC

• Families have lost jobs or had their work hours reduced.

• Families owe back rent and other debts caused by smaller or no paychecks.

THE PROPOSED CITY SALES TAX WILL COST THE AVERAGE FAMILY $189 EVERY YEAR

• Taxing our groceries is unfair and especially harsh in pandemic times!

• Almost every retail item will be taxed including clothes, household supplies, and water, gas and electricity.

OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS ARE NOT TOP PRIORITY

• Money from the last city sales tax was divided equally among wards rather than spent fairly according to need.

Urgent needs in older neighborhoods are still waiting for their turn, not just an equal slice of the pie.

• For most people in Little Rock golf and the zoo are not their number one concern.  More than $10 million is pledged for

golf courses and $40 million for the Zoo.

• LR families were taxed for $20 million in the last decade for a “Technology Park” and now City Hall wants another $11 million for

to double down on “tech services.”

NO BLANK CHECK FOR CITY HALL!

THERE ARE FEW DETAILS ON HOW MONEY WILL BE SPENT.

•  $20 million for Housing the Homeless and Affordable Housing but NO details about where or volume of new houses, rehab or renovation.

•  $30 million for “Strategic Infrastructure”  —   NO details or explanation.

•  $37 million for Indoor Sports Complex.  The LR Mayor was asked about the seating capacity.  He said he did not know. Is this a “mini arena” with acres of parking lots to park traffic?  Where will it be?  He  did not know.  This is not a neighborhood facility but instead, the LR Mayor says it is designed to attract athletes from out–of-state to compete with Tulsa, Dallas and other cities.

•  $40 million for Child Care  but exactly for who, where, how much  and when?  Rules and eligibility?

•  $8 million for a new fire station which City Hall repeatedly has said its aggressive growth policy “would pay for [such growth].”