KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A proposed new jail will need a sales tax to fund it. As FOX4 first reported Wednesday, a city jail is slated to be built on land next to Jackson County's Jail, off 40 Highway, northwest of I-70 and 435. That sales tax will also require a vote of the people before construction would start.  The city plans on using the one-quarter cent or two-eighths of a cent public safety sales tax that shoppers in the city already pay for to help build this. Councilman Crispin Rea says that the tax expires in 2026, so it would need to be renewed. "The last tax was for 15 years," Rea said. "We need to look at the revenue forecast and the cost of the project to make sure that that period covers the construction and the operating costs, so we will have to make a decision on the length of the tax, but like I said, my hope is that it is just a renewal." New plans for former Kansas City Star printing plant FOX4 talked to folks on the Country Club Plaza Thursday afternoon. However, it was found that they really didn't know a whole lot about this potential project. "Hearing that it's for taxes we're already paying is an easy [ask]," Kansas City resident Riley Dahlquist said. "It's not extra, you would think that's an easy 'yes,' or an easy sell, but I don't know."  The city plans to buy part of the county's property for $2.3 million, and the vote for the city jail could be April 5, 2025. Rea said they'll need to educate voters on the differences between the county jail that will be next door in 2026 and a city jail. "We are not talking about murderers or felony level rapists, or anything like that," he said of who would be in a city jail. "We're talking about quality of life crimes, property crimes, things that happen with a high level of frequency most often in our neighborhoods."  One group that will try to get people to 'vote no' on this issue is DecarcerateKC. It opposes the construction of any new jail in the city.  "We can do way more with that," city resident Heru Amen-Ra said, talking about the $2.3 million the city plans to spend on the purchase of some of that county property. "Resources for the community such as mental health issues, housing issues, utility issues and just about anything besides this. We already have a jail that's housing people." Amen-Ra is a leader with DecarcerateKC. The 'this' he was referring to is the soon-to-be new Jackson County Jail, just east of where the Blue River goes underneath 40 Highway. "We believe that restorative justice is the key to helping these issues," he continued. "What they're trying to do with these prisons is just stockpiling people. It's not the key. It's not helping. They've been doing it for I don't know how many hundreds of years, and instead they just continue to get bigger and bigger and bigger."