That's over the next five years.
City/County contract negotiations, the County proposed to raise this extra taxation burden to approx $417,000 per year. In response, the City Council recently passed a resolution to agree with a raise but to ‘only’ $100,000 per year, for a five year period. That will obligate city taxpayers with a financial burden of $500,000 over this five year period. Again, this is above what we pay in County taxes for these same services.
This gets under my skin enough,
But to not have any type of public discussion of why it's truly needed?
Now the kicker. Last August, I asked several City and County officials for the ‘Legal controlling authority’ for this double taxation. The only response I received was that the $50,000 payments were legal. Nice answer, but nothing to do with the question. Perhaps legal, but the question was why required. After I obtained independent legal advice, the basis for the extra payments was found. As was printed in the contract proposals last August, the existing fees are a result of nothing more than a "...mutual unwritten understanding" between the City and the County! No law, no signed contracts, no written record, no official resolution, no ordinance, no Council vote, no legally binding provision. Basically, nothing more than a handshake over a cup of coffee.
I think they just have no idea how to spends the funds they currently receive..
