Possible New Property Tax Levy Next Year
Voters will probably be asked to approve a new property tax levy in order to pay for the Waterfront Redevelopment Plan and the renovation of Civic Field. The City Council gave vocal support to a special levy for those two projects during a meeting on the 2012 budget.
Property taxes will not go up even if a new levy is approved, because the levy that funded the Port Angeles Senior Center will lapse next year.
Property taxes will not go up even if a new levy is approved, because the levy that funded the Port Angeles Senior Center will lapse next year.
posted by Tom Harper at 1:47 AM
13 Comments:
Seems to me like levy's should not be used to pay off loans, but collected and put in SAFE interest bearing accounts until you have enough funds do what you want or need to do.
According to a story I read yesterday the bankers have really screwed cities on a lot of loans. Bankers must have learned their trade from car salesmen, they both make loan sharks look like saints.
It also seems to me like the county folks benefit from projects like a library, senior center, civic field, etc.
So shouldn't they also help pay for them? They would get paid off faster.
I hear a lot of arguments against government getting into banking but it seems like that's the best way to control banking.
Maybe a few cities should start their own banks and see how that works out?
Or maybe mankind is just generally too greedy for anything to work as it should.
Waterfront redevelopment? Have you seen the drawings of what is proposed?
The "esplanade" is to be built on Railroad Ave, between the Coho ferry terminal (what a beautiful facility THAT is!) and the PenPly log yard. Anyone who thinks that by spending millions to build a walkway, people will flock to the area, should take a walk down there right now, and see what will remain. Still log yards, heavy machinery, smokestacks and more.
As they say "You can put lipstick on a PIG, but it still is a PIG"
All the same "consultants" will get paid, and that really IS the point, isn't it?
"You can put lipstick on a PIG, but it still is a PIG"
But it doesn't look bad on Sarah Palin, hehehe
It doesn't look bad on Sarah Palin,
that's for sure,
but it sure doesn't help Hillary or Michelle
They'll spend millions on the waterfront, the indians will decide its theirs cause their great-great-granddaddy pooped there and the taxpapers will, once again, get nothing.
How many millions did they spend on the graving project?
As of this moment, there are five posts. Four are from BBC. 'Nuff said - I wish...
I think we're all against any levies, if the city and county can't handle their money any better than stupid projects that will benefit NO ONE. They're doing it to get grants because they just can't get off that government teat.
Don't be talkin' smack about Billy. He's Da Man 'round here!
WTF? and RCP are just namby-pamby mamas boys and flakes. The Watcher is a pinhead. Capitalist secretly reads Karl Marx. Anonymous is just a loser.
Mess with Billy and he'll take you out into the alley and show you who's the Boss!
"As they say "You can put lipstick on a PIG, but it still is a PIG"
All the same "consultants" will get paid, and that really IS the point, isn't it?"
Yes, Port Angeles is a pig, and the folks that run it have learned how to get lots of feed from the government trough.
Feed that pig, but it still is a pig.
We should change the name of this burg to "Pork Angeles".
"We should change the name of this burg to "Pork Angeles"."
LOL! Yes! You hit that one dead on.
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