The Orange County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing on Tuesday to gather public comment on a potential Nov. 8 referendum on a quarter-cent sales tax.
In it’s 2007 budget, the legislature gave counties the option of a quarter-cent sales-tax increase of a 0.4 percent land-transfer tax to help compensate for money taken away from counties when the responsibility for paying for Medicaid was turned over to the state. A sales-tax referendum was narrowly defeated in the November 2010 election and commissioners have said they would like to revisit the measure. The sales tax is expected to generate $2.5 million annually.
The hearing will be held during the board’s regularly scheduled meeting at 7 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road.