Well I could see the benefit to a wheel tax ie: city sticker. My apprehension would be that what is collected would actually be used for road repair. First things first. Where are we wasting $$ that could be moved into an account that is in need (street repair). I think $10 is too much. Next would be how often would the tax go up?? Here's a start to move funds around. Stop collecting leaves every fall. How much do we spend as a city to collect leaves? Mulching mowers work wonders or place leaves in the bags so that one person and one truck can go house to house picking up the leaves rather then a truck, a tractor followed up by the sweeper to clean the gutters. I believe there are areas in the city budget to save and shave $$$..

Another tax. Imagine that. Don't we already pay taxes to pay for street repairs?

Repairs to the streets are definitely needed! Janesville streets are becoming more and more treacherous to drive on. Winter weather and lots of traffic are taking their toll on our streets. Where is the money that has been allotted for these projects going? What is the city doing with it? Every night there are people being arrested for driving related incidents (speeding, DUI, inattentive driving, accidents, etc.), where is this money going? Maybe the money generated from the issued fines should be used for repairing roads, purchasing salt and any maintenance required for the roads, along with the tax money that is currently being allotted. Just do the math every night when these figures show up in the "Public Records". There is a lot of money that goes WHERE?

Just another example of not raising taxes, just putting the cost in another pocket. We need to realize that expenses go up everywhere & unless we are willing to give up services, taxes are going up. I would love to hear an honest politician tell me that. I also agree that we could probably tighten things to help keep things lower...

Beloit has has the wheel tax since the mid-80's, it doesn' bother me as a city resident except for 1 thing. Normally when this is enacted they will cut the regular funding by the amount of the revenue generated by the fee or tax.(ie for example lets say we spend 1,000,000 on road road but we increase the fees to generate say 200,000 they take 200,00 out of the 1,000,000, and still only spend 1,000,000 why not spend the 1,200,000 look at how great the infrastracture would be in 10-15 years.

maybe people will get thier pos of the streets and lawns then!!!!!

Why is it always more taxes instead of less spending...I would like to see a listing of all the tax increases that have been proposed in Janesville the past couple of years.
It's always "only a few dollars per avg janesville $112,000 house"
Add them all up and it's more like several hundred dollars per year.