Tax talks timeline for Lawton sales taxes 2006 2007
Timeline shows Lawton City Council and Comanche County officials debating multiple sales tax proposals from Oct 2006 to Jan 2007. Proposals include quarter-cent and half-cent taxes to fund infrastructure, jail costs, and unincorporated area sales. Delays, task force reviews, and joint sessions mark the process.
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Lawton
Keith Jackson
Randy Warren
Chamber of
Schoos
Gail Turner
Fairgrounds
Comanche County Juvenile Detention Center
Vote date set for tax proposal amid funding clash
County and city officials press a tax plan varying from Ward 8 Councilman Randy Warren best, seeking to fund infrastructure and capital needs beyond current finances. Jackson opposes raising city sales tax, while Warren and Mayor Purcell push a temporary three-eighths percent city tax and one-eighth county tax lasting 18 months starting July 1. Countywide taxes sunset June 30 and December 3, 2008.
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Chamber of Commerce
Ward 8
Randy Warren
Jackson
Warren
John Purcell
Comanche County OKs Sales Tax Plan With Langton City
County commissioners backed a one eighth cent county tax and a three eighths cent city tax to run seven and a half years starting July 1 this year. If approved the combined 0.25 percent rise would lift the legal rate to 8.50 percent for 18 months and revert to 8.25 percent after December 31, 2008. Proceeds would fund jail operations, capital projects and county facilities, with an April 3 special election set to decide.
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Comanche County
Lawton
Comanche County Detention Center
Central District
Ron Kirby
Kirby
Comanche County Fairgrounds
Gail Turner
Sheriff's Department
Lawton weighs safety fee with tax plan changes
City council eyes replacing a rolling stock fee with a safety fee to fund police and fire officers, starting at 3.20 and falling to 0.63 over five years, with Feb 13 meeting to discuss. Budget plan also splits sales tax into infrastructure, water mains, streets, homeland security, vehicles for safety, and miscellaneous. Chamber warns against 8.5 percent tax and suggests reserving funds for school facilities.
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Lawton
Larry Mitchell
Jackson
Chamber
John Hester
Hester
Lawton Welcomes Miss America Lauren Nelson
Lawton residents celebrated Lauren Nelson winning Miss America with watch parties at the Nelsons church. Stiles notes Nelson’s inner beauty and singing gift, while friends like Jana Manning and Yolanda Shorter praise her as a Lawton native who will represent the city and state with honor and character. Nelson heads to New York for media appearances and a March welcome home gala is planned.
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Lauren
Stiles
Centenary United Methodist Church
Nelson
Las Vegas
Jana Manning
Lawton
Manning
Lauren Nelson
New York
Regis and
Kelly
Yolanda Shorter
MacArthur High
Lawtonians
Stolen Stamp Collection Worth 15000 in Ada Report
Ada resident Tommy Howerton reports theft of nearly 20000 in property from 1211 NW Lawton between December 10 and December 20 2006. Items include a stamp collection valued at 15000. A houseguest allegedly admitted taking the items but has not returned them. charges may be filed. A separate incident notes a hotel guest sustaining lacerations to lip and head.
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Tommy Howerton
Ada
Lawton
Johnny Mills
Kevin Scott
A County
John Scwhenk
Relax Inn
Cache ‘Road
Lake View Lots For Sale at Lawtonka Lake
Lake view lots for sale near Lawtonka. Call 580 280 0039 for Lawton housing listings and plots.
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Lawtonka
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