WPCNR QUILL & EYESHADE. January 18, 2008: City Hall announced the city 2nd Quarter Sales Tax Collection figures today and the "handle" is  $11,841,285  (essentially the same as last year: $11, 939,364).  The total for the first six months of fiscal 2007-2008 to date is $22,759,093 compared to the comparable July through December period last year, $21,977,064.  The city is up in sales tax collections 6.3% over 2007. City Hall characterized the report as "great news. 

Last year the city collected a record sales tax of $44.9 Million ($44,853,308). If the second half of 2007-2008 generates last year's January through June collections of $22.8 Million the city will make its sales tax target ($43 Million), with a surplus, of $2.5 Million ($45.6 Million).