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Napa County supervisors vote 5-0 to reject sales tax initiative for November

NAPA, Aug. 5, 2008 – Napa County supervisors today voted unanimously to leave the ballot measure to increase sales tax one-half cent for road repairs off the ballot in November.

Supervisor Bill Dodd said that with the conversation about the governor’s one-cent proposed sales tax, local races, the presidential election and the struggling economy the board did not feel it was fair to put it on the ballot.

“The problem in not going away,” he said. “We have congestion problems that are still important to our community, but right now it is not the prudent time.”

The Napa Valley Transportation Authority had been working on the measure for more than a year.

“It was unanimous that this was the right plan, but it was unanimous that it was not the right time.”

“This will be back,” he said. “We need to take stock in the state budget and go from there.”