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City of Bako: Initial damage estimates from state budget deal
As expected and feared, state officials are reaching into city and county tills to balance the budget. Alan Tandy, Bakersfield's city manager, estimates the hit to city coffers this way (the budget isn't yet published, so exact tallies aren't available):
• $6.5 million in property taxes, a loan to be repaid in three years. • $4.8 million "take" of gas taxes this year and the same next year. • $2.5 million "take" of redevelopment funds. Total estimate: $13.8 million this fiscal year; $4.8 million next fiscal year (fiscal years start July 1). LA County supes have already voted to sue the state, with other localities expected to join. In Bakersfield, the city council would have to vote on the matter, but Tandy said city staff believes the taking of gas tax and redevelopment funds are "clearly illegal." (Fun read: veteran Sac Bee columnist Dan Walters says Cali officials would be Madoff cellmates if the state was a corporation...) Developing...
- Gretchen Wenner, staff writer
2 comments from 2 users
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posted by
johnbravo6
on Jul 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Oh but taking the property taxes from me isn't clearly illegal? Scum, time to remove every single one. Does it make sense why they're called parasites yet? posted by
citybeat
on Jul 21, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Councilmember Harold Hanson sent this rallying cry:
It is difficult for me to find any good with regards to that BAND of thieves in Now is the time to replace this bunch with a part time assembly. While we are at Citizens of California. Lets go to work and regain the glory that was once ours.
- Gretchen Wenner, staff writer
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