Comments on: Decatur City Commission to Vote on $70 Property Tax Credit

By: SFmaster

SFmaster — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 10:32:37 +0000

I guess I didn’t realize that the school and city budgets had no overlap. When I first read this I thought – wow didn’t we just ask our teachers to take a paycut – did we? I thought I read that. I just tried to find it on the CSD website and perhaps I made it up.

I am also remember (perhaps not accurately) lots of governments who were rolling in dough and then found themselves in crisis (especially in California). I love that they are trying to be responsible but I say some rainy day fund and some well-picked projects. There will be other years when we cut things painfully and there is no money to round it out. Adjustments should be made in future collection of taxes not in floating it back in high times.

Congrats to the city for a surplus.

By: AH

AH — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:05:25 +0000

I appreciate the $70 and could use it. Nice, simple way to reward everyone for improving/maintaining property values and keeping spending down. And, for motivating people to keep it up. Huge corporations do this all the time and it’s great for spirits.

Love the idea of spending your $70 on local businesses!

By: JC

JC — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:57:58 +0000

I’m sorry, but don’t you all know that we live in Tea Party country, and you’re NOT SUPPOSED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING MONEY BACK FROM YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT! Seriously, what are you trying to do, start some sort of “rational” convesation about responsible government. You people obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. Meet up at Java Monkey this weekend so we buy out their tea stash and talk revolution.

By: Judd

Judd — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:11:33 +0000

Make that $360K.

By: Judd

Judd — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:10:53 +0000

It is a nice gesture, and its impressive they can make it, although I too wondered about the emergency fund. We do have one, and a the City wants to use considerable chunk of it — a lot more than $36K, I think — to begin paying for a new $16,000,000 debt.