RTA judge to decide on attorney’s fees

By Heather Smathers | Casa Grande Dispatch

A judge will decide next month on whether the county is on the hook for a plaintiff’s attorney’s fees in a legal dispute over the ballot language for last year’s road tax vote.

Judge Christopher Whitten will hear arguments in Arizona Tax Court on Nov. 15 on whether Pinal County will be responsible to pay attorney’s fees to the Goldwater Institute, which sued Pinal County on behalf of Casa Grande resident Harold Vangilder.

Vangilder took umbrage with the language on a ballot initiative known as Proposition 417, which sought to create a new sales tax on purchases in Pinal County. The money raised would go toward myriad traffic infrastructure projects throughout the county.

Voters approved Proposition 417 with 51 percent in November 2017.

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