Question from Anonymous

I just bought a yard sale permit--$5! Why can't the permit just cost only a dollar or two? The ladies taking care of that permit were already employed and I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't be affected by lowering the fee--and maybe more folks would get legal and get a permit.

Steve Connelly answered:

The charge for a yard sale premit is a regulatory fee. It is an attempt to defray the cost of issuing the permit, keeping records and enforcing the rule. It may be that all fees should be reviewed with the idea of using the collectives\ charges to pay the cost of safety officers. That would probably mean an increase in the yard sale permit fees.