- Target:
- Pigeon Forge, TN
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.forging-ahead.org
Last November, Pigeon Forge voters went to the polls in record numbers to approve liquor-by-the-drink sales in licensed restaurants. We wanted to provide Pigeon Forge schools with the same level of funding as Sevierville and Gatlinburg schools, which benefit from hundreds of thousands of dollars from liquor sales taxes every year.
As reported in The Mountain Press, Chancellor Telford Forgety has ordered a new election on this issue, after the Sevier County Election Commission declared that 287 voters who do not live within city limits were mistakenly allowed to cast ballots on this issue. The re-vote is scheduled for THURSDAY, March 14, 2013.
We’re asking Pigeon Forge voters to make it count by going to the polls and finishing what we started in November. Already, sales taxes from alcoholic drinks in restaurants are coming in, and Pigeon Forge schools are preparing budgets that will include hundreds of thousands of dollars in new revenues- but only if we re-approve these sales in the new election. This March, we’ll have a chance to reaffirm our support for education funding on the same level as Sevierville and Gatlinburg. The stakes are too high, and our kids’ education is too important, to do anything else.
Learn more at: www.forging-ahead.org
We, the undersigned, support the sale of liquor-by-the-drink in licensed Pigeon Forge establishments. Our community deserves an alcohol policy that:
- Contributes to the local tax base,
- Strengthens the Pigeon Forge education budget,
- Puts Pigeon Forge on an equal footing with Sevierville and Gatlinburg, and,
- Preserves the essential character of our community.
Sincerely,
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The Make It Count: Protect Alcohol Tax Revenue For Pigeon Forge Schools petition to Pigeon Forge, TN was written by Forging Ahead and is in the category Education at GoPetition.