The City of Shelton is currently accepting applications for tourism funding grants, allocated through the City’s lodging tax fund. The City collects a 4% tax on lodging within Shelton city limits, dedicated for the use of promoting tourism, supporting the operations of tourism related facilities and activities, and general operations of special events and festivals designed to attract tourists to Shelton.
The Port of Shelton is one payment away from paying off its first loan from the state’s Community Economic Revitalization Board (CERB). The $280,000, 20-year loan was issued in 1996 for construction of a new building for a softwood mill on John’s Prairie. That mill was occupied by North Star Lumber Company until it shutdown in 1999 after filing bankruptcy.
[VIDEO] The Shelton City Council passed a resolution Tuesday night supporting Mason County’s Public Safety Sales Tax Proposition voters will find on the August 6th Primary Election Ballot. Shelton Mayor Bob Rogers:
Council Member Joe Schmit:
If approved by voters, the proposition would increase the sales tax in unincorporated Mason County by three-tenths (0.3%) of a percent and increase the sales tax in the City of Shelton two-tenths of percent (0.2%). The County’s sales tax rate would go from 8.5 percent to 8.8 percent. The City’s sales tax rate would increase from 8.8 percent to 9 percent.
Starting in July, Washington’s Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program is replacing paper checks with WIC Cards, a more flexible, convenient way to shop for almost 275,000 participants who use the program.
[VIDEO] Mason County released information on the Public Safety Sales Tax Proposition voters will find on the August 6th Primary Election Ballot. If approved by voters, the proposition would increase the sales tax in unincorporated Mason County by three-tenths (0.3%) of a percent and increase the sales tax in the City of Shelton two-tenths of percent (0.2%). The County’s sales tax rate would go from 8.5 percent to 8.8 percent. The City’s sales tax rate would increase from 8.8 percent to 9 percent.
[LIVE VIDEO] Watch the July 16, 2019 Shelton City Council meeting. There are two ways to watch the council meeting live at 6 PM: hcc.net/news and MasonWebTV.com. You can also watch on demand on hcc.net/news or MasonWebTV.com. Rebroadcasts on Hood Canal Communications’ local channel are Thursday at 3 PM and Saturday at 9 AM.
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[LIVE VIDEO] Watch the July 16, 2019 Mason County Commission meeting. There are three ways to watch live at 9 AM: hcc.net/news, MasonWebTV.com r Mason County’s website (co.mason.wa.us.) You can also watch on demand on hcc.net/news, MasonWebTV.com or Mason County’s website: co.mason.wa.us. Rebroadcasts on Hood Canal Communications’ local channel are Thursday at 6 PM, Saturday at 2 PM and Sunday at 9 AM.
Here is the meeting’s agenda:
The Shelton City Council will consider a resolution supporting Mason County’s proposed Public Safety Sales Tax during their meeting at 6 PM Tuesday, July 16. MasonWebTV Powered by HCC will broadcast Tuesday’s City Council meeting live.
If approved by voters on August 6, 2019, the Public Safety Sales and Use tax would increase to three-tenths of 1%. A City news release says because Shelton residents approved a ballot measure in 2011 to collect a one-tenth of 1% sales tax dedicated to public safety, approval of the county ballot proposition would raise the tax by two-tenths of a percentage to a total of three-tenths of 1% within Shelton city limits.
