TARGET DATEThe sales tax agreement expires on May 23, 2011. According to the agreement, budgets would remain in effect until the end of the 2010-2011 fiscal year, which is June 30, 2011.
Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield said again Friday he thinks the sales tax agreement between the city and Hamilton County will expire in May with no new pact in place.
“Don’t expect it to be something worked out quickly, and perhaps not even quietly,” Littlefield said at a Southeast Tennessee Political Action Committee meeting.
The sales tax agreement guides distribution of sales taxes collected in the county and its cities to a variety of government and social service agencies.
Littlefield said he expected negotiations with the county and its 10 cities to take months. He held up copies of old newspaper articles showing months of stories and editorials when the original agreement was crafted in the 1960s.