Property Tax Levy to go up by 1%
Port Angeles' property tax levy will go up by 1% in 2011. This should add about $40,000 to the city's property tax revenue. The increase was approved unanimously by the City Council.
posted by Tom Harper at 6:06 PM
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Amazing! Property values drop by an estimated 25%, and the city finds it a good reason to RAISE property taxes.
Makes sense to me!
The empire builders can't try to annex my area again until 2015 so, well, you know, what ever.
Besides, that would only raise my property taxes about forty cents. I am however concerned about what those knuckle draggers will do with that forty cents.
The path to freedom is having little and having it look like shit so they can't tax it too much.
Property, free and clear.
Transportation, free and clear.
Campers and boats, free and clear.
Everything I have is free and clear.
I owe this world nothing, so how is it working out for the rest of you monkeys?
Did you notice from reading the other PDN story about the City Council meeting that the council also voted to spend over around $80,000 on marketing consultants who will explain to customers that they will be receiving new utility meters? What a stupid waste of money! It's outrageous!
Why can't the City just put a note in the utility bills? Or ask the meter manufacturer to come to town and tell the public about their product? Or - maybe the City Council members could sit at the Saturday Farmer's Market with a sample meter and show people how it works? Or ---- do you suppose that City officials could put their heads together and come up some other "communications" plan that wouldn't cost taxpayers $80,000?
How rich, and so typically Port Angeles: the Council pleads poverty, votes to raise taxes, and then spends the new revenue on something frivolous like this. I suppose that the next thing they'll do will be to vote the City Manager a big fat raise.
Barf!
$80,000 on marketing consultants who will explain to customers that they will be receiving new utility meters
Hahahahaha
what you all need to understand is the consultants are going to explain how the new meters will calculate your power usage differently.
Get your Wallets out.
BBC, u live off of the taxpayers so get a job
I saw a PDN story headline saying that OMC voted to raise property taxes another 1%. Is this on top of what the City Council did Tuesday?
I will admit having not read the article. I won't waste my money buying the PDN.
BBC, u live off of the taxpayers so get a job
If you wasn't an idiot you would know that I made my own way to retirement and am not living off of your sorry ass taxes.
Get a brain, moron.
Hey Fleeced...Go check out the comments on the PDN article about the new utility meters and you'll see why someone needs to be on the job to explain them to "just folks." As it stands now, they seem to be seen as some sort of environmental whacko socialist Glenn Beck nightmare. A literal leftist power grab. But smart meters actually offer the potential for people to have much MORE control over their own power usage, not LESS, which is a good thing.
You retired too early BBC. You need to work until your're at least 80. Get a job ya old fart.
People should be up in arms over this nonsense.
It's TOTAL bullshit.
You retired too early BBC. You need to work until your're at least 80. Get a job ya old fart.
Screw you, I don't need a job, I get by just fine on my income. But if I did need a job I could find one a lot faster than a lot of you losers.
It would just take a few phone calls and I would be back to work.
What do you think about that downtown waterfront redevelopment proposal that was in the PDN today?
The picture was funny. I noticed they didn't show what it would look like, looking from the east, to the west.
Go down to Railroad Ave. at noon tomorrow, around the Landing, and count how many people you see.
Maybe someone should add up all the dollars spent in the last 15 years or so, "improving" downtown, and compare that against how many people are now down there at any given time of day (excluding special events like Crabfest).
Is there any real evidence all these projects are doing anything except providing jobs for consultants?
the meters are garbage. They calculate your bill on your USAGE, when you use it (peak time, off peak) so it causes a huge spike in the bills. you get charged MORE because now they can bill you for you actual time usage when you use it.
Don't need 80k consultants to tell me that this is a money grab. Just like the 1% raise when my house is overvalued by more than 100k and it was an arbitrary raise in the value (no basis in fact) based on unknown factors.
It's just spend spend spend, and then make a big deal out of how to get 4% out of the budget. Morons.
Anon 4:48 pm ---
Good observations about the waterfront "improvement" sketch in the paper, and the money spent on outside consultants who come up with these schemes. Looking east to west, one sees a bunch of logs piled up at Pen Ply, heavy machinery working there, and in the distance, the stacks and emissions from the Nippon mill (assuming that some big oil tanker isn't tied up at the pier).
The industrial waterfront dominates the view from the harbor, too, for those tourists coming over from Victoria. I doubt that a larger sidewalk with a few trees scattered around on Railroad Ave. will improve a visitor's first impression very much.
Another thing --- is McCloskey planning to donate his Oak Street property to the City so that the "waterfront park" will have more than a narrow strip of land? The DNR only controls a fairly narrow strip along the rip-rap and against the west sidewalk.
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