City Government
I&R included in new city charter.
A committee controlled by Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin and set up to promote a Muni overhaul measure on the November ballot received a $20,000 campaign contribution from Clear Channel Outdoor Inc. just two days before Peskin and other supervisors voted to award the company a Muni advertising contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 20 years.
Voters could decide as soon as Feb. 5 whether to pay an additional 0.5 percent sales tax to hire more police officers, firefighters and paramedics.
Modesto City Council members today can take another crack at adjusting a ballot measure designed to make them more accountable to voters, but this time with an eye on making the initiative as understandable as possible.
”The charter provides for an innovative and unified form of government with a full time mayor and six
part-time
council members comprising a seven-member
council…”
WHEN is an emergency not an emergency?
When it’s a tax, we suppose.
When Mark Klaiman set out to add a second location for his Pet Camp kennel business, he had to deal with a half dozen offices of San Francisco city government. The City Planning Department. The Public Health Department. The Building Inspection Department. The Fire Department. The Public Works Department. Not to mention the urban forestry bureau within the Public Works Department.
The City Council will decide Nov. 5 whether to place a ballot measure before voters in February to protract and continue the city’s utility user tax on telephone service.
The tax, which is threatened by possible court action and changes in federal law, brings in about $10 million a year to the general fund.
A public forum tonight will lay the first bricks for what could be a heated community debate over a February ballot measure that would require Newport Beach’s city hall to be built next to the city’s central library.
Former Modesto Mayor Carmen Sabatino on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the city, claiming a voter education program describing a November ballot measure was a ploy to undercut a campaign for district elections.