Carbondale Mayor Brad Cole is offering to help the the Jackson County Board make another attempt at passing its Safety Tax, but, as Andrea Kempwerth reports, his offer of cooperation is viewed skeptically by County Board Finance Commissioner Gerald Compton.: "Cole said he wasn't necessarily endorsing a future public safety sales tax increase referendum. However, he said he is interested in seeing that information about the public safety tax is distributed to the public differently the next time the referendum is offered on a Jackson County ballot." From what I can tell, the Board website has no information about the special tax or the reasons for it. So that's at least one thing the Board could do next time to win voters' (especially this one's) approval.