ABOUT BLUEPRINT 2000

In November 1989 Tallahassee and Leon County voters approved a local option one cent sales tax to provide funding for transportation projects and law enforcement facility improvements. Funds from the sales tax have allowed the community to build a new Leon County detention facility, expand and renovate Tallahassee Police Department headquarters, and complete badly needed roadway projects, ranging from traffic signal improvements to new or expanded roadways (such as Capital Circle Northeast) to improved bicycle and pedestrian facilities.

During the fall of 2000, voters were asked to extend the one cent sales tax, to the year 2019, with the emphasis on a series of critically needed community initiatives focusing on stormwater and flood control projects, greenspace acquisition and parks/recreation improvements, and additional transportation projects. Eighty percent of the projected sales tax revenues were committed to projects proposed by the Economic and Environmental Consensus Committee (EECC), a diverse group of citizens who represented business and environmental interests in the community and who were the authors of the Blueprint 2000 and Beyond report; the balance of the revenues were committed to fund projects identified as City and County priorities.

On election day 2000 (November 7), nearly 60 percent of voters approved extending the one cent sales tax. This web site will be updated to provide Tallahassee and Leon County citizens with news and information on the Blueprint 2000 program, the various projects to be funded by the sales tax extension, and the involvement of your City and County governments. Please feel free to e-mail us with your questions or comments.

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