Posts Tagged ‘parcel tax’

GET READY TO VOTE ON ANOTHER PARCEL TAX

July 21, 2009

Yep. This time, it’s Long Beach Unified School District that will be putting a $92-per-parcel tax on the November 2009 ballot.
Are you excited yet? Here’s coverage from LBReport.com and the Press-Telegram.
“Board member Jon Meyer noted that the annual tax would amount to about $7.67 a month per parcel,” the P-T’s Kevin Butler writes.
” ‘Gee whiz, [...]

TOUGH TIMES AHEAD FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES?

June 17, 2009

The Press-Telegram’s Kevin Butler writes this morning that Long Beach Unified School District employees could have their pay and benefits cut during the next fiscal year, “as part of a possible cost-cutting effort, the school board narrowly declared Tuesday.”
“The Long Beach Board of Education, on a 3-to-1 vote, approved a resolution that district officials say [...]

LOS ANGELES TIMES LOOKS AT MEASURE I

October 27, 2008

Yep. Los Angeles Times reporter Mark Medina takes a crack at Mayor Bob Foster’s muchly-talked about parcel tax in this morning’s paper.
“Foster has tried bolstering support this fall for Measure I, a 35-year $120 parcel tax for all residential and business properties. Stacey Ann Fong Toda, Foster’s deputy chief of staff, said the mayor he [...]

DEBATE OVER MAYOR’S PARCEL TAX GOES ONLINE

October 7, 2008

Haven’t decided how you’ll vote on Mayor Bob Foster’s $571 million parcel tax? Better hurry up–you don’t want to be the only person without an opinion.
With the election less than a month away, both sides have their websites up and running–poised to try to convince you either way.
Catch the No on Measure I people here.
Then, [...]

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MAYOR’S PARCEL TAX

October 2, 2008

When Mayor Bob Foster talks parcel tax–as he does frequently–the phrase I’ve heard thrown out most frequently to homeowners is “$10 a month.”
As in, this parcel tax will cost homeowners roughly an additional $10 a month or $120 a year. (Commercial property owners may be another story.) But that’s not all it will cost us.
The [...]

MY POSSE’S ON BROADWAY?

September 29, 2008

Beer & Politics and Mayor Foster tomorrow night
Tomorrow is the last Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means: no Long Beach City Council meeting; and yes, Beer & Politics at Gallagher’s Pub & Grill.

IS SCHIPSKE BEING TARGETED FOR OPPOSING MAYOR’S PARCEL TAX?

August 19, 2008

Gerrie Schipske is the only member of the Long Beach City Council to oppose Mayor Bob Foster’s proposed $571 million tax on property owners to pay for repairs to so-far-unspecified aspects of Long Beach’s infrastructure, and the Fifth District representative may be paying the price for her brave position.
An editorial in today’s LBReport.com makes a strong case that Schipske–who on [...]

COUNCIL APPROVES PUTTING PARCEL TAX ON NOVEMBER BALLOT

July 23, 2008

Giving us one more reason to consider remembering the November election for the rest of our natural lives, Long Beach City Council voted 8-1 last night to put Mayor Bob Foster’s $571 million infrastructure improvement plan on the ballot in about three and a half months.
In other words, it’s now known as the Long Beach [...]

MAYOR FOSTER AND HIS INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN

July 17, 2008

Mayor Bob Foster gets the profile treatment from Paul Eakins in this morning’s Press-Telegram, and his $571 million plan to rebuild the city’s infrastructure gets a separate examination.
Foster’s own take on his plan–which according to the P-T will require Long Beach City Council to “unanimously approve a declaration of fiscal emergency”? He doesn’t think it [...]

 

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