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City Government Stories Posted in October 2007
Proposed Hemet sales tax increase would boost public safety
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: The Press Enterprise
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 council may change wording of City Hall measure
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: The Modesto Bee
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.
Opinion: Easton would control destiny with home rule
Category: Initiative and Referendum · State: Pennsylvania · Source: The Morning Call
''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...''
Ballot measure worth mulling
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: SGV Tribune
WHEN is an emergency not an emergency? When it's a tax, we suppose.
S.F. ballot measure would create center to help small businesses
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: San Fransisco Chronicle
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.
City council's decision on property tax due Nov. 5
Category: Taxes · State: California · Source: The Sierra Madre Weekly
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.
Public meeting to focus on city hall ballot measure
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: Daily Pilot
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.
Sabatino sues Modesto over voter education
Category: Election Reform · State: California · Source: The Modesto Bee
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.
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