County officials will consider the possibility of hiring a third party to conduct surveying related to a sales tax measure in 2016.
San Benito County supervisors at their 9 a.m. Tuesday meeting are set to discuss limitations on a sales tax campaign along with the potential to authorize the county administrative officer to hire a consultant to survey the public on potential passage of a tax.
San Benito County, Hollister and San Juan Bautista officials met in a joint meeting earlier this month over sales-tax options for next year’s ballot. There was no official action out of the meeting, other than a continued expectation that the county and city would separately ask voters for respective tax increases.
Supervisors have been exploring options for a possible sales-tax question on a 2016 ballot. They had talked about the potential of forming some kind of tax-sharing deal with Hollister, which has a 1 percent tax running through the spring of 2018, but that type of agreement seems off the table at this point.
