PB – Special assessment tax and outsourcing police

[jpinpb]

From a poster on the UT:

Pacific Beach Business Improvement Association, which already gets business-member-only tax dollars from its Business Improvement District (BID) members. DiscoverPB’s stated mission in its legal financial filings is to “promote and support businesses.

Can’t the alcohol tax cover this, since the crimes are alcohol related.

There are so many ways to come up w/money for this and the burden should not be on homeowners. I’m pissed.

Also posted on UT:

According to Luis Ojeda in the Economic Development department, lord overseer of BID-enforced MADs, property revenues are UP, thus the special assessments funds are UP, because of late-payment fees

[Anonymous]

“Can’t the alcohol tax cover this, since the crimes are alcohol related.”

Well, you would think that the heavy police presence at night would do something. They mostly seem to sit in the parking lot of Roberto’s on Garnet, but they could be useful if they were put on beat patrol instead. It at least seems like 10-20 police patrolling a mile strip of land should be able to exert control. The businesses also aren’t responsible for the potholes, broken water mains and broken sidewalks. This special assessment is really to transfer wealth from taxpayers to private individuals with zero accountability for services provided. Secondly, they won’t be able to make any capital improvements, so the roads, sidewalks and water mains will still be crappy.

[Anonymous]

“Can’t the alcohol tax cover this, since the crimes are alcohol related.”

Well, you would think that the heavy police presence at night would do something. They mostly seem to sit in the parking lot of Roberto’s on Garnet, but they could be useful if they were put on beat patrol instead. It at least seems like 10-20 police patrolling a mile strip of land should be able to exert control. The businesses also aren’t responsible for the potholes, broken water mains and broken sidewalks. This special assessment is really to transfer wealth from taxpayers to private individuals with zero accountability for services provided. Secondly, they won’t be able to make any capital improvements, so the roads, sidewalks and water mains will still be crappy.

[Anonymous]

“Can’t the alcohol tax cover this, since the crimes are alcohol related.”

Well, you would think that the heavy police presence at night would do something. They mostly seem to sit in the parking lot of Roberto’s on Garnet, but they could be useful if they were put on beat patrol instead. It at least seems like 10-20 police patrolling a mile strip of land should be able to exert control. The businesses also aren’t responsible for the potholes, broken water mains and broken sidewalks. This special assessment is really to transfer wealth from taxpayers to private individuals with zero accountability for services provided. Secondly, they won’t be able to make any capital improvements, so the roads, sidewalks and water mains will still be crappy.

[Anonymous]

“Can’t the alcohol tax cover this, since the crimes are alcohol related.”

Well, you would think that the heavy police presence at night would do something. They mostly seem to sit in the parking lot of Roberto’s on Garnet, but they could be useful if they were put on beat patrol instead. It at least seems like 10-20 police patrolling a mile strip of land should be able to exert control. The businesses also aren’t responsible for the potholes, broken water mains and broken sidewalks. This special assessment is really to transfer wealth from taxpayers to private individuals with zero accountability for services provided. Secondly, they won’t be able to make any capital improvements, so the roads, sidewalks and water mains will still be crappy.

[Anonymous]

“Can’t the alcohol tax cover this, since the crimes are alcohol related.”

Well, you would think that the heavy police presence at night would do something. They mostly seem to sit in the parking lot of Roberto’s on Garnet, but they could be useful if they were put on beat patrol instead. It at least seems like 10-20 police patrolling a mile strip of land should be able to exert control. The businesses also aren’t responsible for the potholes, broken water mains and broken sidewalks. This special assessment is really to transfer wealth from taxpayers to private individuals with zero accountability for services provided. Secondly, they won’t be able to make any capital improvements, so the roads, sidewalks and water mains will still be crappy.

[jpinpb]

As someone posted on UT:

“Think about DiscoverPB’s incentives: They want more for their members and more power to get more for their members. They do not act in the interest of the residents, unless those residents are local member business owners. They’re the ones who want to “set up and maintain” the parking meters and permits so that they can funnel more cash into their interests and have more control to give themselves even more money and power. ”

And someone else says:

“All this assessment district is really about is conferring the power to tax and to contol taxes to the private group, known as DiscoverPB (legally, PB Business Improvement Association). ”

Jordan – Police have to hang there b/c of all the fights and stabbings and DUI. It mostly is concentrated there. They are actually told to be in that area and focus of DUIs and fights. Unfortunate, but that’s how it is. Our tax dollars paying police to monitor drunks coming out of the “businesses.”

[jpinpb]

As someone posted on UT:

“Think about DiscoverPB’s incentives: They want more for their members and more power to get more for their members. They do not act in the interest of the residents, unless those residents are local member business owners. They’re the ones who want to “set up and maintain” the parking meters and permits so that they can funnel more cash into their interests and have more control to give themselves even more money and power. ”

And someone else says:

“All this assessment district is really about is conferring the power to tax and to contol taxes to the private group, known as DiscoverPB (legally, PB Business Improvement Association). ”

Jordan – Police have to hang there b/c of all the fights and stabbings and DUI. It mostly is concentrated there. They are actually told to be in that area and focus of DUIs and fights. Unfortunate, but that’s how it is. Our tax dollars paying police to monitor drunks coming out of the “businesses.”

[jpinpb]

As someone posted on UT:

“Think about DiscoverPB’s incentives: They want more for their members and more power to get more for their members. They do not act in the interest of the residents, unless those residents are local member business owners. They’re the ones who want to “set up and maintain” the parking meters and permits so that they can funnel more cash into their interests and have more control to give themselves even more money and power. ”

And someone else says:

“All this assessment district is really about is conferring the power to tax and to contol taxes to the private group, known as DiscoverPB (legally, PB Business Improvement Association). ”

Jordan – Police have to hang there b/c of all the fights and stabbings and DUI. It mostly is concentrated there. They are actually told to be in that area and focus of DUIs and fights. Unfortunate, but that’s how it is. Our tax dollars paying police to monitor drunks coming out of the “businesses.”

[jpinpb]

As someone posted on UT:

“Think about DiscoverPB’s incentives: They want more for their members and more power to get more for their members. They do not act in the interest of the residents, unless those residents are local member business owners. They’re the ones who want to “set up and maintain” the parking meters and permits so that they can funnel more cash into their interests and have more control to give themselves even more money and power. ”

And someone else says:

“All this assessment district is really about is conferring the power to tax and to contol taxes to the private group, known as DiscoverPB (legally, PB Business Improvement Association). ”

Jordan – Police have to hang there b/c of all the fights and stabbings and DUI. It mostly is concentrated there. They are actually told to be in that area and focus of DUIs and fights. Unfortunate, but that’s how it is. Our tax dollars paying police to monitor drunks coming out of the “businesses.”

[jpinpb]

As someone posted on UT:

“Think about DiscoverPB’s incentives: They want more for their members and more power to get more for their members. They do not act in the interest of the residents, unless those residents are local member business owners. They’re the ones who want to “set up and maintain” the parking meters and permits so that they can funnel more cash into their interests and have more control to give themselves even more money and power. ”

And someone else says:

“All this assessment district is really about is conferring the power to tax and to contol taxes to the private group, known as DiscoverPB (legally, PB Business Improvement Association). ”

Jordan – Police have to hang there b/c of all the fights and stabbings and DUI. It mostly is concentrated there. They are actually told to be in that area and focus of DUIs and fights. Unfortunate, but that’s how it is. Our tax dollars paying police to monitor drunks coming out of the “businesses.”

[largemammal]

I’d like to buy all of PB and MB, a bulldozer, and the gas to power it. The place is such a friggin dump. I can imagine few things more satisfying than pushing the whole area into the sea. The wreckage might show up somewhere in baja, and it would probably look just like PB/MB today.

Sigh.

[largemammal]

I’d like to buy all of PB and MB, a bulldozer, and the gas to power it. The place is such a friggin dump. I can imagine few things more satisfying than pushing the whole area into the sea. The wreckage might show up somewhere in baja, and it would probably look just like PB/MB today.

Sigh.

[largemammal]

I’d like to buy all of PB and MB, a bulldozer, and the gas to power it. The place is such a friggin dump. I can imagine few things more satisfying than pushing the whole area into the sea. The wreckage might show up somewhere in baja, and it would probably look just like PB/MB today.

Sigh.

[largemammal]

I’d like to buy all of PB and MB, a bulldozer, and the gas to power it. The place is such a friggin dump. I can imagine few things more satisfying than pushing the whole area into the sea. The wreckage might show up somewhere in baja, and it would probably look just like PB/MB today.

Sigh.

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