CITY KEEPS TAX BREAK IN BUDGET; LANCASTER EXTENDS $125 CREDIT FOR EACH HOMEOWNER.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
The City Council approved a $99.8 million budget for 1999-2000 that continues a $125 per home tax break for residents, but city officials say they don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how much longer they will be able to continue that break. For the third year in a row, the city is absorbing the $80 a year fee to homes for landscape maintenance and $45 a year for street lighting. The city began absorbing those fees in response to Proposition 218, which requires voters to approve new assessments or increases in existing assessments. ``That's money back to the taxpayers,'' Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
The City Council approved the budget with a 5-0 vote Tuesday night. Among the major forces on future budgets that may end the tax break include the increasing costs for public safety. For 1999-2000, the sheriff's contract increased by $800,000 from the 1998-99 budget to $11.7 million. The increase is being attributed to raises for deputies and rising liability costs. In the past, the city's sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. revenue has risen faster than the city's law enforcement expenses. Since the recession of the early 1990s, however, law enforcement expenses have been rising faster than sales tax revenue. For 1999-2000, sales tax revenue is projected at $10.6 million, $1.1 million under the law enforcement expenses. City Manager Jim Gilley said he could not predict whether the tax break will be included in the 2000-2001 budget. The budget for the general fund, which essentially is the city's day-to-day operations budget, will be $33.5 million. The general fund budget includes a 10 percent reserve. The city's redevelopment agency budget includes $5.3 million for the acquisition of the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. . The city is working with the fair board to relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. the fair to a larger site near Avenue H and the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . The city plans to acquire the existing fairgrounds for the development of approximately 272 homes. The plan includes keeping 10 acres of the existing fairgrounds for a park which would contain two fairground buildings - Challenger Hall and Yucca Center. The proposed budget includes $1.5 million for the addition of an administration building and four Federation International Football Association-regulation fields to the city's National Soccer Center. When completed, the center will have 34 fields. |
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