City pavement vendors agree to environmental tax

City vendors in attendance during the Town Clerk’s presentation

Pavement vendors on Water and Regent streets yesterday agreed to pay the city a weekly environmental tax of $1,000, which will go towards keeping the areas in which they operate clean.

However, they were warned by Town Clerk Royston King that they will still be obliged to keep their surroundings tidy. “Not that you not going to clean, but we are going to do extra cleaning,” he told the approximately 400 vendors gathered at the City Hall parking lot. He noted