Wyoming Business: Laramie voters will decide fate of capital facilities tax

LARAMIE — Laramie and Albany county voters will go to the polls May 6 to consider extending the county’s optional one-cent capital facilities tax for two packages.

One package contains a recreation center and money for a senior center, and the other includes a sewage-treatment operational fund, water improvements in Rock River, new fire trucks and other county needs.

Albany County Commissioner Pat Gabriel said the commissioners decided to split a $28 million total request into two packages because of voter concerns, especially over the recreation center.

Cheyenne experienced similar resentment to a rec center on its capital-facilities tax last year, and…