McClain County Commissioners voted Wednesday, July 9, at a special commissioners’ meeting to call for a special election September 9 to make the county’s sales tax permanent.
Commissioners Wilson Lyles and Terry Daniel met without commissioner Glen Murray, who was absent at the meeting at the county courthouse with attorneys Kristina Bell and David Floyd present.
Due to the way Oklahoma law is written, each portion of the sales tax must have a specific purpose so they have to break the 1/2 cent tax into two pieces with 3/4 of the current 1/2 cent going to providing funding for public safety services. These include Mc-Clain County rural fire departments; county public safety operations and programming facilities, and any other lawful purpose relating to the same.
