65 and older exemption
Response to editorial and articles on Measure I failure
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Since my name was raised in the Gazettes editorial and the Press Telegram article about the failure of Measure I , I want to be clear again, that I was the only council person to vote against placing Measure I on the ballot because it was brought forth with just two hours of debate (not six […]
Bad drafting derailed the first proposal for a parcel tax
Monday, October 27th, 2008God bless citizen activist Terry Jensen for taking the time to publicly debate the merits (or lack) of Measure I — the ballot measure to place a parcel tax on all property owners in Long Beach.
He has been out in the community publicly speaking and today he wrote an op-ed piece in the Press Telegram […]
I campaigned on a promise of “no increases in property taxes”
Monday, October 20th, 2008Some people have a short memory. I know there are days I need to go back and re-read things I wrote a couple years back. I did that and confirmed that I had made an issue in my campaign for city council of “no increases in property taxes.”
The last time I checked, a parcel tax […]
Unemployment and fiscal crisis means parcel tax in trouble
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Make no mistake about it. Long Beach needs to fix its infrastructure. It needs to repair the sidewalks and streets it let linger in disrepair. It needs to rebuild some of our fire stations and fix the problems in the Main Library –problems which it deferred fixing.
How we go about paying for these repairs is […]
It was wrong..and other thoughts
Friday, September 26th, 2008The City is telling everyone how much we needed additional revenue to be able to get our infrastructure fixed…but wait…
Sale of 100 Long Beach Blvd.
It was wrong for the Council to approve the sale of the property at 100 Long Beach Boulevard for $5 million when not one of us had ever seen the appraisal […]