The Salt Lake City Council will postpone Tuesday’s expected vote on a half-penny sales tax increase in order to spend another couple weeks looking at where that new money will go.
The delay comes in response to one councilman’s insistence that the council has not done enough due diligence to ensure that the funds will be spent as outlined.
“What we have is a presentation from the administration as to what their recommendations are,” Councilman Charlie Luke said Monday. “What we haven’t done is discuss as a council if that actually is the direction we want to go.