The public referendum over a possible 1 percent Wauneta village sales tax will be Feb. 12, but trustees have some work to do before then.
    Village Clerk Evelyn Skelton told trustees Dec. 11 that they have to come up with answers to some anticipated questions before a public informational meeting on the tax.
    No date has yet been set for the informational meeting. Skelton she’s waiting to hear back from the Wauneta Care and
Therapy Center’s accountant, who will be part of the meeting, on when she will be available.
    Trustees have set the sales tax to provide money to stabilize the finances of the village-owned facility.
    Skelton said the village has yet to pay off $318,000 in revenue bonds from purchase of the facility.
    Among questions that need to be answered is how the village will collect sales taxes from online sales.
    In other business at the Dec. 11 meeting, trustees met with Hamlet Village Trustee Forrest Matti about Matti’s ideas to make it easier to get rid of abandoned buildings in small towns in the area.
    Matti, who emphasized that he was formally representing neither his village board nor Hamlet itself, showed Wauneta trustees photos of abandoned properties in his town, only one of which is salvageable.

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