A $300,000 question lingered over budget talks for Iola City Council members Wednesday.
Last fall, Iola voters overwhelmingly extended a half-cent sales tax, noting the proceeds have helped fund a number of major street projects and other improvements over the past 30 years.
Another project looms in the not-so-distant future — a full-depth rebuild of U.S. 54 from McDonald’s to Jump Start Travel Center — but Council members noted a large variable remains unknown.
The issue, discussed in a special budget workshop, is whether the city will be asked once again to allocate a portion of the sales tax revenues to the county-owned Allen County Regional Hospital.