I’ve read some of the information that Mr. Powell has been putting out. He speaks to seniors, giving them the wrong attitude and view of many respected people.Like teachers, policemen, and firemen — my goodness, he doesn’t want to pay a fair wage to the very people that education us, protect us, and save us!There is also a conflict of who is doing what - like the reported $40,000 donated by the Home Builders to those people who want a propterty tax. Isn’t this the same group that recently donated money to a councilmember running for office that is against the property tax? Tell us about it.There is a lot of scary stories about a primary property tax, check out the facts, don’t believe everything you’re told. The cap is $30 million, the amount you pay most likely will decrease as the population grows. I don’t think seniors, or anyone else, wants to be deprived of some of the services we really depend on and give us a quality of life in Mesa.Some folks are just cranky and don’t realize how fortunate we are to have a well functioning city, we need to continue to help make it a better place too. Vote yes for both the primary property tax and the sales tax!
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The property and sales taxes proposed by the City of Mesa are a lazy solution to a very complex problem.
I would like to see some accountability from the City why services provided to citizens are less than those of twenty years ago, but taxes are more.
HOA’s happen to provide the functions that were formerly responsibilities of the City government. Now, before a contractor can begin building within the city, said contractor must arrange for an HOA for the homes he will build. Why is it that the city can require people to pay additionally for the services that used to be performed by the city, and not relax the taxes that same person is already paying?
If the City of Mesa can’t survive the budget crunch, we need new leaders, and we need to cut the fat. I do believe that the City of Mesa is a glutton, wasteful and inefficient to the point that city government is a hinderance to it’s citizens rather than a help.
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I agree with the previous poster, Ryan.
I am the Treasurer on the HOA board in my community, since January 2002.
When our community was completed in 1999 and later the HOA turned over to the Homeowners by the Developer, we discovered that the City of Mesa had required that runoff from Ellsworth Road run into a retaining basin on the common property owned by the HOA (and thus owned by the homeowners).
The developer was required by the City of Mesa to create this retaining basin for the runoff.
(A simple connection of the storm drains to the City Sewer on Ellsworth would have sufficed.)
This water, of course, is dark, brackish, containing oil, grease and whatever runs off from the paved street.
Liablity for this water which runs off of a City Street into the retaining basin?
Yep.
That’s Imposed onto the HOA, for any damages (possible drownings of neighborhood children), mosquito control, stench and sludge left behind when the water evaporates, etc.
The City of Mesa has been offloading services they normally provided as the City of Mesa has grown onto the HOAs. Yet it still wants more in taxes while these City services have decreased.
Vote NO on both the increased City Sales Tax and the City Property Tax.
I have to admit that dumping the responsibility of duties that were formly the cities to the HOA are tough on the HOA, but keep in mind this: People want the city to cut costs and save tax dollars, well, here’s a good example. The city cut the costs but that doesn’t mean that these services go away! someone has to pick them up, in this case, the HOA.
The city saved tax dollars but it cost the private citizens more money! Sometimes we get what we wish for and suffer the consequnce.
You make very little sense, Mr. Ikeda.
The point is if these city services were “dumped” onto the HOA to save the city money, then there is no reason for the City of Mesa to be asking for increased taxes.
It is very difficult Mr. Reed. Its very clear that because of rising costs and diminishing income sources that Mesa cannot sustain the basic essentials of running a city without a stable revenue source and we’re all feeling it. We need to change this by voting yes for propositions 1 & 2 in May.
The City knew of the potential growth yet continued to allow it.
The “Yes For Mesa” mailer states that new growth will eventually pay for itself, yet knowing this the City allowed growth to continue without allowing the tax base to increase.
If growth will continually pay for itself, thus solving the problem, then why a permanant property tax to solve a temporary problem?
The property tax is a bad solution.
The Yes For Mesa organization is nothing more than an extension of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce PAC: Mesa Citizens for Responsible Public Policy.
This PAC or Political Action Committess is a tax-exempt organization.
Yes For Mesa is, a tax-exempt PAC using tax-free donations to convince voters to pay additional taxes.
Smacks of hypocrisy