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CUDAHY, Wis. (CBS 58) -- The people here showed up, packed a Common Council meeting Thursday night, and in the end, they got their way. The council voted against implementing a $50 vehicle registration fee, which would have been the most expensive local wheel tax in Wisconsin.

The vote happened during a special meeting, as the council considered new urban forestry fees, as well as the new wheel tax. The meeting room was packed to the point where residents had to go into a nearby room to bring in extra chairs while other stood along the wall.

"That's quite high," Janet St. Louis said of the proposal. "And we have a lot of people within the city that have a fixed income or they don't have a lot of money, and now, you wanna add this on."

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