This time, voters approved the measure about 59 percent to about 40 percent. It marks the first time since 1987 the city’s property taxes have been raised.

In Greendale and Moline Acres, voters approved by wide margins proposals to impose “use taxes” on residents’ out-of-state purchases in the same amounts as the cities’ local sales taxes. Moline Acres voters approved the measure there by 58 percent to 41 percent, while Greendale voters approved it by about 84 percent to 15 percent.

The use taxes, payable on city residents’ tax returns, would apply to those who buy more than $2,000 worth of goods annually from out-of-state vendors. Such local use taxes are becoming more common throughout Missouri and elsewhere as online purchasing has increasingly pulled sales away from local businesses, depriving local municipalities of those sales taxes.

In Bel-Ridge, voters approved a measure to more than double the commercial property tax rate in the city, which hasn’t been raised since 1990, to fund police costs, road and sewer repair and other city services. The tax will increase to 65 cents for each $100 of assessed valuation from 27 cents. Bel-Ridge voters also voted to assess a $15-per-space annual fee on commercial parking lots. Both measures passed by about 60 to 40 percent.