Additionally, Cameron voters approved Proposition 2 by a count of 280 to 36. The proposition defines a city council quorum as four members excluding the mayor. Proposition 3, allowing the city attorney to live outside of Cameron, passed by a total of 288 for and 47 against.
Cameron Mayor William C. Meacham said after the election that passage of all three propositions was “good news.”
“The items on the quorum and the city attorney were housekeeping-type issues we needed for the city charter,” Meacham said.
“I think the other proposition dealing with the sales tax gives the city more flexibility,” the mayor said.
The change in the economic development sales tax from Section 4A to 4B allows greater flexibility in the use of revenues.
Generally, allowable Section 4B expenditures include not only those available under Section 4A, but also projects that contribute to the quality of life in the community, such as parks, professional and amateur sports, athletic facilities, tourism and entertainment, affordable housing and other improvements or facilities that promote new or expanded business enterprises that create or retain primary jobs.
The Legislature in 1999 expanded the allowable uses of economic development sales tax revenues by adding job training, targeted infrastructure, job creation and retention, and educational facilities.
