MANSFIELD — Mansfield City Council on Tuesday will consider asking voters in May to renew a pair of income taxes earmarked for specific purposes.

The city administration hopes to gain approval for a pair of four-year, quarter-percent tax issues — the Pothole Haters Tax and the PRIDE tax.

As renewals, neither tax represents an increase.

“Crucial is the best way to describe both of these taxes,” Mayor Jodie Perry said Monday morning. “The PRIDE tax funds a good chunk of our safety services, demolitions and our entire parks budget, other than what we allocated this year from the general fund.

“We do millions of dollars of street resurfacing every year and we would not have the money in our budget to do that work without these funds,” Perry said of the Pothole Haters Tax.

Both issues, each of which will generate about $4.8 million annually, were overwhelmingly approved in May 2021.

The Pothole Haters issue received support from 76.2 percent of city voters four years ago while the PRIDE tax was approved by 72.3 percent of the voters.

Both tax issues have long histories of success in the city.

The origins of the PRIDE tax fund in the Mansfield date back more than a decade as the city emerged from a state-ordered fiscal emergency.

It’s an acronym for a voter-approved, quarter-percent municipal income tax that helps pay for a combination of parks and recreation, illumination (re: streetlights), demolition and emergency services (police/fire.)

Funds from the tax are divided among those areas — 50 percent to police and fire, 22 percent to parks and recreation, 20 percent to demolition and 8 percent for illumination.

The tax was narrowly first approved by city voters in the general election in 2013 with 3,414 (51.05) percent in favor and 3,273 (48.95) against.

The city began collecting the tax in January 2014. It emerged from fiscal emergency in July of that year.

The PRIDE tax was renewed by wider margins during primary elections in 2017 and 2021.

The “Pothole Haters” tax has helped local road work, including resurfacing, for more than three decades.

Residents have overwhelmingly supported the issues in recent years. Taxes collected under it can only be used for city streets.

In 2024, the city resurfaced 18.8 miles of its 321 miles of streets at a cost of $4.3 million.

In other action Tuesday, City Council is scheduled to:

— vote to appropriate $110,000 from the unappropriated safety services PRIDE fund based on actual and anticipated revenue through Dec. 31. The money will be divided equally between the police and fire department operations.

— discuss during caucus proposed amendments to Section 355.01 of the City of Mansfield codified ordinances related to “off-street parking.”