Posted by Katherine Rose | Jul 12, 2021 A proposed ballot question to tax motor fuels in Sitka won’t get a second reading when the Sitka Assembly meets on Tuesday (7-13-21). Assembly members Kevin Knox and Rebecca Himschoot sponsored the proposal, which the Assembly approved on first reading in June. If approved by voters, it would have added 3 cents to every gallon of marine and motor fuel sold at the pump. In an interview with KCAW on Monday (7-12-21) Himschoot said that money would have gone toward aging harbor and road infrastructure. “I think everybody in town has noticed that our streets really need attention and those are something that we keep deferring year after year,” Himschoot said. “Kevin and I were looking for a way to get sort of a dedicated funding stream so we could at least incrementally, year-by-year, start chipping away at this deferred paving list year by year that we have in the city.”