My town (well about 5% of it anyway) voted to increase their property taxes so that we could have a fancy new Firehouse/Police Station/DPW sandbox even though what we already had was fine! The Police Station was brand new in the 90's and it's not like our population has exploded since then. I guess the big draw was "well, it allows for the diggers and snow plows to be inside a building at night so that they can be warm and cozy." Instead of trying to just fit it into the town budget and have the Police maybe not buy $75k vehicles to be used for traffic cops they figured that residents should just pay more as it is.
At least our town councilors don't want medical marijuana to be sold here, so that's a plus! That local tax revenue sure wouldn't help.