On Measure F, nowhere in the official materials do city officials tell voters how much more they would pay.
Piedmont’s Measure F would increase the parcel tax property owners pay for city services by at least 20%.
Maybe the amount doesn’t matter to most Piedmont residents. But there’s a transparency principle here that should even apply to a high-income community.also omitted the size of the increase, which was then 30%. Voters should not stand for this continuing deceit. They should vote no on Measure F. The tax allows for a cost-of-living adjustment of up to 4%. When the ballot measure was prepared, drafters assumed that the amount for 2024-25 would be 4% higher. Then the amounts for 2025-26, when Measure F takes effect, would be an additional 20%, bringing the amount for the smallest lot size to $743 annually and the amount for the largest residential lot size to $1,254. Those dollar amounts are written into the new tax rate chart that’s included in the full legal text of the measure.
As for City Attorney Kenyon’s impartial analysis, she makes no mention of the size of the increase and writes, “The measure would increase the tax rate schedule set forth … in the City Code to reflect previous authorized annual increases, but would not otherwise increase the tax rate.” Everybody in the pool? Walnut Creek tries to make new $77 million aquatic center work for throngs of swimmers at Heather Farm Park
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