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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 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 [...]