Thursday, March 22, 2007

It's not quite characteristic for a city clerk to not like a source of city
revenue. But Clerk Pat Garrity sees one particular revenue stream on
Hibbing's
books that he doesn't like, and he wants something done about it. Garrity
asked the council to consider elimination of the charitable gambling tax,
better known as the 10 percent contribution fund, during a Committee of the
Whole meeting Tuesday. "I feel we should consider whether it's in the best
interest of the city and of the nonprofits that run the operations to
continue taxing charitable gambling groups on a 10 percent basis," said
Garrity while handing out a spreadsheet.