Key decisions on major utility project costs, new development proposals, and crucial citizen commission appointments loom for the upcoming council session. 📝
One of the stated reasons for the Charter Review Committee is to re-visit the 3% CAP on Ad Valorem taxes the voters placed on uncontrolled spending in 2018. The City officials state that it puts too much of a burden on funding the needs of the city. It was presented in 2022 that eliminating the CAP entirely would provide about $2M in additional revenue annually. Surely, city officials can start thinking out of the box and create other sources of revenue and cost cuts to produce the same amount of revenue. Stop putting the burden on the residents.
They're going to keep asking. It was put in place with a landslide, and reaffirmed in 2022 again by landslide. I guess they don't understand no means no.
One of the stated reasons for the Charter Review Committee is to re-visit the 3% CAP on Ad Valorem taxes the voters placed on uncontrolled spending in 2018. The City officials state that it puts too much of a burden on funding the needs of the city. It was presented in 2022 that eliminating the CAP entirely would provide about $2M in additional revenue annually. Surely, city officials can start thinking out of the box and create other sources of revenue and cost cuts to produce the same amount of revenue. Stop putting the burden on the residents.
They're going to keep asking. It was put in place with a landslide, and reaffirmed in 2022 again by landslide. I guess they don't understand no means no.