City Adopts User Fee

Where: Wheeling, WV

What’s a User fee? $2 weekly tax on people who work within the city limits

Why a user fee? A method to fund a  $21 million public safety building which failed to gain voter approval

How would the user fee be implemented?

• Employers will take the fee out of paychecks
• Self-employed individuals will make quarterly payments
• $1 of the fee will fund the public safety building
• $1 would go toward infrastructure

The Intelligencer | City Officials Talk User Fee, Public Safety Building