{"id":25466,"date":"2024-10-05T16:14:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T22:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/questions-about-the-countys-proposed-sales-tax\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:17:34","slug":"questions-about-the-countys-proposed-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/questions-about-the-countys-proposed-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions about the county\u2019s proposed sales tax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=31b3968b-90e3-50f3-a48b-8f2a914573b0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"704\" height=\"1094\" alt=\"County Sales Tax Presentation poster. (Courtesy Karen Sheek)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">County Sales Tax Presentation poster. (Courtesy Karen Sheek)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Community members will have the opportunity to ask questions about the county-wide sales tax on the ballot this November.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County\u2019s League of Women Voters is putting on the event at the Sunflower Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A Q &amp; A will follow a slideshow presentation. County Commissioner Jim Candelaria and Sheriff Steve Nowlin will be there to field specific questions.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue from the proposed tax would benefit the Sheriff\u2019s Office,  Detention Center and the county\u2019s drug task force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can be adverse to tax increases, but when you pay taxes, you support services for the whole community,\u201d said Karen Sheek, the leader of Montezuma County\u2019s LWV. \u201cLaw enforcement services are some most of us don\u2019t want to be without.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Sunflower Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78950,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25466\/revisions\/78950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25466"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}