After postponing residential water rate hikes until at least next year, members of the Nevada City Council got their first look Wednesday at proposed expenditures of added, voter-approved sales tax revenue. The discussion at the council’s second monthly meeting Wednesday came close to three months after voters approved Measure L, a three-eighths of a percent sales tax hike, by a 75 percent majority. Revenue from the measure will bring in $325,000 annually until its sunset clause kicks in after five years. While the preliminary expenditure list was put on the agenda to gauge the council members’ support of the proposed …












