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In Springfield, a new 30-member Citizens Commission on Community Investment is looking at renewing a city sales tax that bailed out the old police-fire retirement pension back in 2009. Commissioners are expected to make recommendations to City Council on how the money should be spent in the future, now that the retirement fund has been largely paid for. But city officials say there’s a cost to doing nothing.
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A 30-member Citizens Commission on Community Investment was appointed by Springfield City Council earlier this week. Commissioners will soon start work. Their task is deciding whether to ask voters to renew a key sales tax passed during the Great Recession — and how to spend the money.