Cedar Hills gets little input on tax

CEDAR HILLS — Residents in Cedar Hills will have a chance to vote on whether or not the city should impose a one-tenth of 1 percent sales and use tax within the city, but residents still haven't given the city much feedback as to where they are leaning.

Recently the city held a public hearing, which had been scheduled for months, in order to discuss the possible sales tax increase, but not one citizen attended to voice an opinion about the increase.

"They must be waiting for the vote," Cedar Hills city manager Konrad Hildebrandt said. "I have not talked to many people at all. No one that I have heard of has given any type of negative input or even has come to ask about it. The only people I have talked to about it with are people who I have brought it up to."

The CARE tax, if it passes, will help fund any publicly owned or operated park, recreational or cultural facilities. The council chose to put the tax on November's ballot back in June as growth was beginning to fall into place with the groundbreaking for a Wal-Mart and several other retail stores in the area.

Hildebrandt said the builders have a goal to be finished by November, and Wal-Mart representatives have said they think it could be open by February. The surrounding businesses have also expressed interest in opening simultaneously with the Wal-Mart development.

"I think one of the things is our residents have paid out 100 percent of their sales tax to other cities and now it is a chance that they will pay it here and it will stay here," Hildebrandt said.

Orem residents approved a similar CARE tax in November 2005. The Cedar Hills vote will take place as part of the general election Nov. 4.

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