Chandler leaders, legislators discuss what’s best for city

By Maria Polletta

The Arizona Republic

Mayor Jay Tibshraeny

With the Legislature reconvening Monday, Chandler leaders have been meeting with delegates to ensure that the city’s hopes for the new session are known.

“We always start out talking about local control,” Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny said. “In general, it’s about, ‘Don’t come in and prevent or circumvent what we’re doing as a city and put more regulations and more rules on us.’”

Tibshraeny, who served as a state senator from 2003 to 2011, said he focused on the importance of protecting city revenues in recent meetings with legislators from Districts17 and 18. He specifically urged them to fight a construction-related tax-reform proposed by a task force that Gov. Jan Brewer assembled.

The suggested change would limit taxation to raw materials purchased by contractors instead of allowing cities to tax the final price of the product, shifting revenue from the cities where businesses and homes are constructed to the cities where construction materials are sold.

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