GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – What had been proposed as a $20 per vehicle, wheel tax as part of the 2018 budget for Green Bay, has been shot down by a city committee.
But one Alderman claims the entire premise of the tax was misleading to begin with.
Chris Wery says the tax was advertised as a way to raise money, an estimated $2 million, to fix roads.
But he also says there was no specific language that clarified where the money was actually going.
“That was the number one concern of people, that if we create this income source that it would be used for other, other items.”
Mayor Jim Schmitt calls the committee decision short-sighted.
But Wery says using the tax as a way to plug a budget hole is simply dishonest.
“We’re not killing the wheel tax, we’re just killing this revenue source that’s not going to what it was intended.”
The full city council will vote on the final budget next week and could overturn the Finance & Personnel committee’s decision.
A wheel tax proposal was also tried this summer. It was shot down on a 7-5 vote.
