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File photo Street maintenance is expensive but important, say Moses Lake city officials, and cities don’t have many ways to raise the necessary money. Moses Lake city officials formed a transportation benefit district to raise the money.

File photo Street maintenance is expensive but important, say Moses Lake city officials, and cities don’t have many ways to raise the necessary money. Moses Lake city officials formed a transportation benefit district to raise the money.

March 17, 2017

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City: Funding street work expensive but necessary
March 17, 2017 4 a.m.

City: Funding street work expensive but necessary

MOSES LAKE — Streets and roads, and how they’re paid for, has become a topic of discussion in Moses Lake since city officials voted to start a transportation benefit district. At least initially it will be funded with a $20 charge when Moses Lake residents register their vehicles. Moses Lake City Council members have discussed replacing that charge with a two-tenths of 1 percent increase in the sales tax.