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Vol. 21, No. 114
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Lending a hand
Station on schedule New Hayden police headquarters expected to be finished in early June Page 11
S T E A M B O AT S P R I N G S
County has 2 fires Officials had forewarned that dry, windy conditions could cause incidents Page 3
SPORTS
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Hayden Middle School students, from left, Nate Mack, Taylor Colding and Neylan Wheat rake the ground at The Haven Assisted Living Center on Tuesday afternoon. The students lent a hand for Global Youth Service Day, organized by school-based mentors for Partners in Routt County. See story on page 4.
March sales tax down
Collections decline 22.5 percent from same month in 2008
Win forces Game 7 Page 29
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Steamboat Springs’ March sales tax report, expected to be released today, will show a 22.5 percent drop in collections for the month, city officials said Tuesday.
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Tuesday night’s Cash 5 numbers: 3-9-12-19-20 Drawings are held Monday through Saturday.
Year to date, city sales tax collections declined 18.5 percent in the first quarter compared with the first quarter of 2008. March was the city’s seventh straight month of yearover-year sales tax decreases, and the gap is widening — the percentage decrease has increased each month.
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If sales tax declines continue to accelerate, the city will be forced to consider additional budget cuts that could include layoffs, officials said. The city already has cut millions of dollars from its 2009 budget through moves including weekly furloughs for most city employees. Those cuts allowed
for as much as a 19 percent decrease in sales tax this year. “We are down at what we had projected on our revised budget,” City Manager Jon Roberts said Tuesday. “We’ll be looking now at the next month to see if the reductions flatten See Sales tax, page 18
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