Scott City does away with vehicle registration stickers

Vehicle registration stickers will soon be a thing of the past for residents of Scott City.

At its Tuesday meeting, the Scott City Council passed an ordinance that does away with city vehicle registration stickers starting next year.

Before the Aug. 3 primary election, the Scott City Council said the city's vehicle registration stickers would be done away with if voters passed a city sales tax extension that would allow for the continuation of the quarter-percent sales tax for another six years.

In a related item, the council members also confirmed the election results at its Tuesday meeting. Voters approved the sales tax extension by a vote of 596 to 298.

In other business, the city council amended a section of the city code that deals with water connection fees.

Instead of the fees for water disconnection and reconnection going into a water deposit fund as they previously did, that money will now go toward the Scott City Public Works Department.

According to Scott City Mayor Tim Porch, this is being done because of the large number of residents who do not pay their water bills. That costs the public works department, which has to disconnect and reconnect customers' water.

Also at Tuesday's meeting, city administrator Ron Eskew announced that Scott City received a $24,010 grant from the Department of Homeland Security.

The city requested the grant in April to be used for six police car cameras and geographic information system hardware, software, aerial photography and assessment.

Out of the total grant money awarded, $11,370 will be spent on the police car cameras and the rest on the GIS system.

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