DEADLINE MISSED ON COUNTY TAX VOTE.Byline: David Bloom David Bloom (May 22, 1963 – April 6, 2003) was an NBC journalist (co-anchor of Weekend Today and reporter) until his sudden death in 2003 at the age of 39. Early life Daily News Staff Writer Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Supervisors deadlocked 2-2 on Tuesday on whether to put five measures on the November ballot asking voters to authorize taxes that the county is all ready collecting. The county will continue to collect and bank, but not spend, the money, to the tune of $55 million annually, while it awaits legislation or judicial action clarifying whether the taxes are legal. Supervisors Gloria Molina Gloria Molina is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[1] Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, U.S. and Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. opposed going to the voters Nov. 5, saying it would be unwise to pay for an election if legislation or a judicial decision rendered the vote moot. ``If we're going to conduct an election, I think we should do it right the first time,'' Yaroslavsky said. ``As awkward as it is, I'm going to hold my vote.'' Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke was absent from the panel on vacation. Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San and Deane Dana proposed the vote on whether the county should continue collecting taxes on utility customers, amusement park amusement park, a commercially operated park offering various forms of entertainment, such as arcade games, carousels, roller coasters, and performers, as well as food, drink, and souvenirs. tickets, landfill gross receipts, landfill dumping fees and renters of hotel rooms. Whether these taxes are legal under state law was called into question by a state Supreme Court decision in December. But it is not clear whether the decision in a case unrelated to Los Angeles County affects taxes in place before the decision came down. So the county is impounding im·pound tr.v. im·pound·ed, im·pound·ing, im·pounds 1. To confine in or as if in a pound: capture and impound stray dogs. 2. the tax money in an account until the legal questions are answered. ``My position is if we are collecting those taxes, we should spend them,'' said Antonovich. ``But we should have a vote of the public about whether we should keep collecting the taxes in 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99. The voters should have a voice.'' The 2-2 deadlock means that the issue is dead for the current election cycle because state law requires that all measures for the November ballot be added by the end of this week. The board did approve two ballot measures that would affect the pay of two elected officials and eliminate civil service protections for some top management jobs as they are vacated. |
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