Nixa Sales Tax Fails Igniting Police Department Budget Cut Discussions

Nixa City Officials are studying ways to cut budgets after a sales tax increase failed to pass in the last election.

City officials had planned to use the money from the tax increase to build a new police station and sports complex. Now they are looking at ways to cut the budgets in several departments, including the police department.

Nixa has not had an increase in it’s sales tax since 1987.