Streets and sidewalk committee discusses gas tax

Havre City Council member Andrew Brekke said Monday during a meeting of Havre City Council’s Streets and Sidewalks Committee that he would be against a two-cent per gallon countywide gas tax on domestic gasoline to help cover the cost of repairing the city’s streets, saying the cost would be paid more by locals than by tourists.

“Let’s not lull ourselves into a false sense of hope that tourists pay all the taxes. You probably buy most of your gas if not all of your gas here,” Brekke said at a meeting of the City Council’s streets and sidewalks committee Monday night.

The dis...