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Mail Back Your Clean Water Ballot
THE CLEAN DRINKING WATER ballot measure before Whitefish voters earned broad support. The effort is endorsed by a diverse groups of individuals like Charlie Abell, Bob Brown, Mike Jenson, Ryan Friel, Dan Weinber, and hundreds of other locals, myself included.
Whitefish’s clean water ballot won the endorsement of the three most re- cent city mayors and both north valley state representatives. That’s decades in service and local knowledge about the issues facing our small tourist town.
The Daily Inter Lake wrote that funding the water project with resort tax makes sense. Their editorial wrote in part that, “The Whitefish City Coun- cil decided the resort tax is the fairest way of paying the city’s share of the ease- ment cost. We agree.”
The Whitefish ballot measure asks voters to increase the city’s resort tax from two to three percent for 10 years. Revenues would fund a permanent land conservation agreement with F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Company on 3,000 acres in the Haskill Basin, adja- cent to town.
Seventy percent of these new rev- enues would go toward clean water, 25 percent toward property tax relief, and 5 percent toward merchant tax collection.
The question before Whitefish city voters makes good sense to plenty of people receiving a ballot. Mail-in bal- lots have landed in the mailboxes of reg- istered voters. Ballots must be returned and received by April 28.
Many city voters will mail back their clean water ballots to the election office this week or next. Like any non-presi- dential year election voter turnout may be low, especially given an April special ballot. A low ballot return rate would be unfortunate given this question is un- likely to come before voters again.
Polling a few months ago, contracted by The Trust for Public Lands, indicated that a bit over a quarter of voters asked were unlikely to support a tourist tax in- crease for clean water.
These voters may worry about eco- nomic impacts or simply look unfavor- ably toward any new tax; even one that predominantly increases tourist tax revenues from the 500,000 visitors who stay and shop in Whitefish annually.
Citizens voting against measures are very likely to return ballots. That’s un- fortunately not the case for voters who perceive that ballot measures are a no- brainer.
The biggest reason that the clean wa- ter ballot measure could possibly fail has nothing to do with whether it is a good idea, but rather voter apathy. Given big public support for clean water, it’s a false perception that someone else will take care of it. Don’t take that chance with clean water, return your ballot today.
As election night results poured in last November the key takeaway by poll watchers was not that the north valley state representatives won, but rather that half the city voters did not cast a ballot.
If Whitefish voters leave their bal- lot on the kitchen table on April 28, it’s a shame. Whitefish won’t see this kind of clean water deal again.
Whitefish citizens who support pro- tecting Haskill Basin can demonstrate that support by voting, putting a stamp on their ballot, and mailing it back today.
Many locals live in Whitefish be- cause of the clean water, the open public lands and the lifetime of recreational op- portunities our safe community offers.
Whitefish is known to brew famous coffees and beers. The question before voters asks whether citizens want to protect the source of that clean water forever.
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Mike (Uncommon Ground) Jopek and Dave (Closing Range) Skinner often fall on op- posite sides of the fence when it comes to political and outdoor issues. Their columns alternate each week in the Flathead Beacon.
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