Depending on how the voting goes on Tuesday in four southern Davis County cities, the popular — but seriously cramped — Rodgers Memorial Theatre could be moving in the next couple of years into a larger, much more comfortable space.

Similar to Salt Lake City's ZAP tax and Ogden's RAMP tax, Davis County has a proposition on the ballot for what is being called the RAP tax.

If approved, the funds raised — one cent for every $10 spent on non-food items — would go to a variety of entities in the South Davis Arts Coalition, including Rodgers Memorial Theatre, the Bountiful Performing Arts Center, the Bountiful Davis Art Center, the West Bountiful Arts council and the Joy Foundation.

As taxes go, this one is relatively painless. No assessments from the city or county in your mailbox every year. If you purchased $7,000 worth of non-food products in any of the four cities involved (Centerville, Bountiful, West Bountiful and Woods Cross), just $7 would go into the RAP fund ("RAP" is an acronym for Recreation, Arts and Parks, the areas that would receive a percentage of disbursements from the cities involved).

Thousands of Davis County residents have been funneling dollars into Salt Lake County's ZAP-tax program. Every time you buy clothes or books or other non-food items in Salt Lake County, you're paying taxes that help support the zoo, arts programs and parks.

Initially, a large proportion of the Davis County funds would go toward the construction of an all-new, 500-seat Rodgers Memorial Theatre — twice what the theater has now — plus an intimate Black Box theater for smaller productions.

RMT already has an option to purchase a site directly north of Zions Bank, just a couple of blocks from the I-15 interchange on Parrish Lane. The current RMT is slightly off the beaten path, especially for those traveling from outside of Centerville.

Several other Davis County cities were offered the opportunity to join in the proposition but either declined or let the offer slip through the cracks.

I highly recommend that residents in the four cities involved vote in favor of the RAP Tax on Tuesday. I would, but since I live outside the polling jurisdictions, I can't. An affirmative outcome will go far in expanding the arts and recreation throughout the area.

Check out the www.southdavisrap.com for details.

• THE ST. GEORGE MUSICAL THEATRE is dealing with a similar, arguably more desperate, problem than the Rodgers.