While you might assume any referendum to raise taxes as an uphill battle, voters did just that Tuesday — adding a 2.25 cent tax on every $100.00 of taxable property.
"The citizens of Lexington really value their parks and they want to see continued investment in their parks. And so we are ecstatic with the overwhelming support that the ballot referendum had," Griffin Van Meter with the Yes for parks campaign said.
While opponents argued Lexington was already seeing too much in the way of property tax increases, Van Meter said the tax can be leveraged to bring more money in to support a long list of proposed parks projects.
"This is just the baseline of the money, but there'll be state and federal matching grants that we'll be able to capture, bringing more tax dollars back in to tackle that backlog of projects even quicker," he added.
For the average homeowner of the parks, tax will mean close to $53 in additional taxes annually.
