By Jeanette Johnson
Staff Writer

WORLAND – It’s now up to the cities and county to get the approval of their councils and commissioners to proceed with a resolution to continue the one-cent General Purpose Tax to Oct. 30, 2012.

Worland, Ten Sleep and Washakie County leaders met in the commissioners’ room to participate in a conference call with Dan Noble at the Department of Revenue on Friday morning.

“We got everything straight on the way it’s going to have to be worded and what the right dates should be,” Commission Chairman Ron Harvey said following the meeting.

Harvey plans to contact Commissioners Terry Wolf and Aaron Anderson and advise them of the results of the meeting. He didn’t know if they will vote on the resolution during the next commissioner meeting on Feb. 16 or will wait until they see what Worland and Ten Sleep decide to do.

Harvey said he is comfortable with the resolution and that it will be worded correctly.

“That was my concern,” he said.

After recently discovering a clerical error was made when it wasn’t advanced to the General Election in 2007, an effort has been underway to determine how to correct the issue.

“Basically all we decided (during the meeting) is it can be done by resolution,” Washakie County Clerk Mary Grace Strauch said. “If we do it by resolution, the date will stay the same – Oct. 30, 2012. The plan is to put it on the General Election ballot in November 2012.”

If the tax is passed by the voters at that time, it continues for another four years, she explained. If it’s defeated, it won’t stop until June 30, 2013 by state statute to allow vendors and businesses time to make the change.