Cornelius tax referral unlikely to qualify for November ballot

Notification rules, tight timeline for filing, could bump the question of Cornelius’ newly-enacted 2-cent tax into next year

The Forest Grove News-Times, Jul 21, 2010, Updated Jul 21, 2010

While petitioners are poised to start collecting signatures to send a new two-cent-per-gallon gas tax to Cornelius voters, it might not make it to the ballot in November.

The filing deadline to get on the November ballot is Oct. 5, but it’s unlikely opponents of the gas tax could collect signatures and jump through the various hoops in time to make that deadline.

The city’s own effort to enact the tax hit the same snags.

“We’re just reading right out chapter-and-verse of the good election book,” said Cornelius city manager Dave Waffle.

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