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UPDATE: Councilors move forward changes to make single-room housing easier to build
During their Monday, Oct. 9 meeting, the Salem City Council moved plans to allow single-room housing in more areas and changes to west Salem streets forward to a public hearing.
UPDATE: City council approves expansions at airport
During their Monday, Aug. 28, meeting, the Salem City Council approved a property purchase to add 230 parking spaces at the Salem Municipal Airport, and rejected a repeal of the payroll tax.
UPDATE: Councilors approve plans for west Salem apartment complex
The Salem City Council meets Monday, Aug. 14, at 6 p.m. to consider a motion to host discussions with constituents, plans for a west Salem apartment complex and to hear an update about ongoing infrastructure bond-funded projects.
UPDATE: Councilors approve plans for safer walking, biking on South Salem Heights Avenue
The city council agenda for Monday, July 24, includes new appointments to the Salem Public Library advisory board, plans for a west Salem apartment development and road improvements on South Salem Heights Avenue.
Salem councilors explain their votes for and against the payroll tax
Salem Reporter sent each Salem city councilor a set of questions about their vote on the payroll tax, with topics from the public comment process, their reasoning and the matter of a citywide vote. Here are their responses.
Oregon business group seeks to force public vote on Salem wage tax
Oregon Business & Industry on Friday filed a referendum petition to refer a payroll tax to Salem voters after the city council narrowly approved it July 10.
Here’s what citizens had to say about Salem’s new tax on wages
Salem Reporter gathered a sampling of the over 130 written comments Salem City Councilors received before voting 5-4 Monday night to begin taxing people working within city limits in 2024.
Salem councilors vote to tax worker paychecks after citizens overwhelmingly ask them not to
Councilors in a 5-4 vote approved a new tax on workers in Salem that would cost the average employee about $500 annually starting in July 2024. The tax would bring in about $28 million per year to maintain and expand police and fire staffing, and keep homeless shelters open.
YOUR GOVERNMENT: Council to consider new tax on worker paychecks
The Salem City Council meets Monday, July 10, to hold a public hearing and vote on the proposed payroll tax which would affect those who earn a paycheck in Salem. The agenda also includes a motion to reconsider zoning changes in the SCAN neighborhood that the council rejected in June.