Referendum items officially make ballot
If there was any question local residents would get to decide on two special referendums this fall, it’s official.
Elections Administrator Donna Yates reported the election commission will add two referendum issues to the ballot for the November election.
Yates said election officials considered requests on Friday from the city of McMinnville to hold a sales tax referendum asking voters to approve an increase to the local option sales tax from 2 percent to 2.75 percent, as well as a local option petition for a proposed referendum for liquor by the drink.
She said those two issues were formally certified and will appear on the November ballot, with 351 signatures certified on the liquor petition – over 100 more than was necessary.
The issues will be decided only by voters or qualified property owners inside McMinnville city limits voting in the November election.