With careful planning, we could set up a funding mechanism by 2015, which is when the Open Space and Road Tax expires. I advocate continuing the 2% sales tax, but reconsidering how it is divided up, making sure that there is a minimum of 10% to be used in the area of public transit.

That's how I would address public transit. It's a long ways to get to it, but it would work.

This way you fund transit is by a tax that already exists, rather than adding another tax on to the people and the citizens of Prescott. It is a sales tax, people that come from outside the community will pay for it, and it is a very valid way of doing it without raising the taxes on anybody else. If we don't do that, then we're going to have to raise property taxes, and that affects the property owner.