Oklahoma County commissioners have another sales tax proposal to fund the construction and operation of a new county jail to consider.
The Citizens Bond Oversight Advisory Board unanimously approved the proposal during a special meeting Tuesday. It would create a four-tenths-of-a-cent tax, and could last from 25 to 30 years.
The tax would be used to fill in the multimillion dollar budget gap to replace Oklahoma County’s plagued detention center. Voters overwhelmingly approved a $260 million bond to fund the construction of a new jail in 2022, but the facility’s price tag ballooned before the county was able to break ground…