The city currently has 400 of these cameras. Crane said the city could potentially double that number with the revenue generated from the tax.

The second of Slay’s tax proposals depends entirely on the sales tax’s passing.

If voters approve the sales tax, the city’s lesser known “use” tax would also automatically increase by a half-cent, generating an estimated $4 million a year.

Businesses pay the use tax when they buy materials, parts and other goods from out of state.

Voters first approved a city use tax in 2001, with proceeds going to health care and affordable housing. It is now 8.013 percent.

Under Slay’s plan, voters will decide whether the revenue generated by the half-cent increase in the use tax can be used to help fund a downtown soccer stadium.

The ownership group SC STL has said they could ask for as much as $80 million from taxpayers to help fund the $205 million project.

The city could use the $4 million per year to back more bonds for a soccer stadium. But Crane said the money would be contingent on a few conditions.