Raymore staff and volunteers gearing up for use-tax vote; staff urges residents to review promised uses

During the April 1 work session, staff reminded the Raymore City Council and the viewing public that a use-tax question would be on the ballot the following day and summarized outreach efforts supporting the measure.

Mister Fairborn said there has been substantial work to answer public questions and described an active 'vote yes' committee conducting Facebook Live outreach and other engagement. "They've just been yeoman in trying to bring this issue forward for the public," he said.

Staff urged residents to "soberly inform themselves, take a real hard look at this, take a look at the things that we're going to be doing with it that we are promising are the only things that are going to be done with this use tax," and asked voters to participate in the election.

A council member asked whether volunteers will be present at polling locations; Mister Fairborn replied that the 'yes' committee will staff polls during strategic times and that volunteers can provide voter information that staff are legally constrained from giving.

The presentation did not list the detailed budget breakdown of projects the tax would fund during the meeting; staff said those details are in the materials distributed to council and the public and encouraged residents to review them before voting.