Arkadelphia Voters Head To The Polls NEXT Tuesday
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
While voters statewide go to the polls
tomorrow, Arkadelphians will also be voting next Tuesday in a
special election.
They will decide then whether to accept a 1/4% tax
for parks and a temporary 3/4% tax to raise funds
for a sports complex.
City residents already voted in a temporary One percent tax to
raise $5.6 million for the sports complex and
park improvements, but it turned out to not be enough.
The complex was supposed to cost $1.4 million to build. City Manager Barbara Coplen now says Arkadelphia needs
Three million dollars more to finish the sports complex.
Coplen said the city was planning on receiving corporate
sponsorships for the project when it began in 2000, but blamed the
September Eleventh attacks of 2001 for drying up sponsorship
options.
