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Schools Want More Tax Money

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“To maintain and improve the quality of education”. Does that mean more parking lots and football stadiums?

The tax, called Measure V, will go before the voters on the November 8 ballot. It asks for a $60 tax per parcel for four years to fund academic services and programs.

 

If approved by two-thirds of the voters, it would eventually replace Measure X, a $35 parcel tax passed by 70.84% of Pacific Grove voters in 2008. The new measure would add roughly $230,000 per year to the budget beginning in the 2012-2013 year, according to the PGUSD website.

 

District officials said Measure V will be used as a mechanism to maintain and improve the quality of education in Pacific Grove.

Schools Want More Tax Money

Save $11,000 A Year Sending License Renewal Work To Fresno

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And charge businesses to do so.Fresno Connection

Moe always mentions Fresno as where many P.G. tourists come from..

The decision to work with Muniservices came in response to budget pressures and concerns that not all businesses in the city were paying the tax, Becklenberg said. The amount of the tax owed is linked to the annual gross receipts of the business.

Before contracting with Muniservices, Becklenberg said, the city had only a half-time worker to process about 1,600 business licenses at a cost of $38,000 per year. The new system is expected to reduce that cost to $29,000 a year, he said.

Save $11,000 A Year Sending License Renewal Work To Fresno

Who Wants To Tax Grocery Bags?

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Sarah Hardgrave, another substainable kook that thinks taxes will change behavior. Taxing me even more on safe, clean packaging from stores makes me change my mind to shop in Sand City.

Bag Grab

Senior city planner Sarah Hardgrave, environmental programs manager for the city, sought authorization to prepare a report about alternatives that would allow the city to regulate single-use carryout bags — paper as well as plastic.

Such regulation could encourage shoppers to bring their own reusable bags.

Residents cited the environmental harm reportedly caused by bags when they wash into Monterey Bay and are eaten by fish and other sea life.

Europeans routinely bring their own shopping bags to stores, said resident Inge Larritzen Dumer.

Yes, and Europeans urinate in the street.

Residents Marciel Price and Terry O’Connell argued that reusable cloth bags can pose a health hazard.

“Different people have different sanitary standards,” O’Connell said.

Merchandise carried in reusable bags often contains “germs, pesticides, all kinds of stuff,” Price said, adding that she wouldn’t want to deal with leaking packaged meats in a cloth bag.

Who Wants To Tax Grocery Bags?

Tax Loving Bill Monning Loses On Sugar Tax

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Does the tax on alcohol prevent DUIs and other drunken crimes? This is just another money grab.
Soda Tax

Amid outcry from business organizations, restaurant and beverage groups, grocers and more, an Assembly taxation committee effectively killed the bill. Sponsored by Assembly member Bill Monning, D-Carmel, whose district includes parts of Santa Cruz County, it would have taxed sodas, energy drinks, sweet teas and other sugary beverages, directing the money toward youth education and obesity-prevention programs.

Tax Loving Bill Monning Loses On Sugar Tax

Tax On Soda? Assemblyman Monning Says Yes

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Sounds to me like the politician didn’t get enough campaign contributions from the “massive corporations”.

“Taxes shouldn’t be a tool for social engineering, or an instrument to penalize people for doing nothing wrong,” said J. Justin Wilson, a research analyst at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Consumer Freedom, in a statement posted on the group’s website.

While Monning admits part of his goal is to change consumer behavior, he refuted the social engineering argument.

“The real social engineering is the massive corporate advertising that targets young people,” Monning said. “It’s open season on young people to market these beverages.”


Tax On Soda? Assemblyman Monning Says Yes

Another Library Tax Fails

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Hasn’t it been proven enough or do the supporters assume that the masses are not smart enough to know better?

Liberry

In a repeat of the November 2009 municipal election, supporters of Measure Q again failed to garner the two-thirds supermajority needed to pass a special tax to fund the Pacific Grove Public Library.

The final unofficial vote tally from Tuesday’s election showed 2,827 votes in favor of a parcel tax for the library to 1,796 against. With just more than 61 percent approval, the measure fell short of the 66.6 percent needed to pass.

Another Library Tax Fails

Read Someone Else’s Books, No New Taxes

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Measure J was close, but not close enough.

With all the votes counted, including the late ones and the questionable and damaged ballots, Monterey county Elections reports that Measure J, which would have funded our library with a $96 parcel tax, missed passage by a very scant margin.

Hear-Old reports it at 3 votes. Well, here was 2 of them:

Vote 2009
Two No On J Votes

I cannot support this or any other begging from the city until they show that they can manage what they have already.

Need a start?
– End all city supported funding of the ineffective Chamber Of Commerce.
– Cut all ties with “ICLEI”, the Local Governments for Sustainability.

Read Someone Else’s Books, No New Taxes

Book Lovers To Do “Whatever They Can” To Fund Library

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Ask for more taxes!!

Wonder if they have a backup plan?

Liberry

A campaign committee in favor of Measure J, a parcel tax to support the Pacific Grove Public Library, was formed late Wednesday after a meeting at the Pacific Grove First United Methodist Church.

 

Measure J, which would levy a flat $96 tax on each parcel and $75 for each unit of a multi-family residential building, is expected to raise an estimated $630,000 annually from the city’s 6,000 parcels plus apartment units, said city Management and Budget Director Jim Becklenberg.

That alone wouldn’t be enough for 40 hours a week, Headly said.

Think that this added tax will benefit the library only? Wrong. The city will be able to draw money away from the library to fund other things. Say forinstance, sustainable seagull repellent for the roof of city hall.

Monterey Hear-Old, 8/25

“It is a way to set the library up with a base outside of the city’s general fund,” Becklenberg said.

 

Passage of the measure, he said, could secure the future of the library and provide general fund savings of approximately $400,000 toward the $2 million city budget deficit, since Measure J funding would allow the city to use its regular library budget for other purposes until the budget can be balanced.

Book Lovers To Do “Whatever they can” To Fund Library

Hotel Room Tax Revenues – Down

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Million or so less after paying ransom to the Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau and putting up more signs.

Well, who wants to pay over $200 to stay in one of these crusty inns?
Dumpster Sea Breeze Motel 071216

I’m in favor of tearing these moldy tired hotels down and rebuilding but not increasing the room count. Cannery Row & Seaside are getting all the business.

In a small city with a lot of hotels, the decline in hotel tax is significant.

“It’s 19 percent of the general fund,” said Jim Becklenberg, Pacific Grove’s director of management and budget.

Pacific Grove hotel tax revenue dropped 14 percent in fiscal year 2008-09 from the previous year, less of a drop than the city was anticipating. Pacific Grove has “a relatively small reserve,” Becklenberg said.

Hotel Room Tax Revenues – Down

P.G. School District – Tax, Spend, Beg, Tax, Spend

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Lather, rinse, repeat. Odd that they spend the money on all things except books & supplies to teach our precious fry. Well at least we can play football on artificial grass.

If there were ever a monument to how local public entities waste taxpayers’ money, it is the Pacific Grove Unified School District’s use of the $42 million in Measure D tax revenues.

This money was designated for classroom and school facility repair and construction. Even though the existing stadium was adequate, $6.5 million of this money, 15 percent of all available Measure D funds, was used to build a state-of-the-art shrine to Jockdom under the euphemism of “stadium reconstruction.”

P.G. School District – Tax, Spend, Beg, Tax, Spend