DISTRICT TO PAY COST OF RECALL? BILL WOULD PASS ON ELECTION TAB.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - A State Senate bill seeking more than $3 million from the Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² Water Agency to help fund the recall election would result in local water rate and fee hikes, officials said Thursday. The bill, SB 407, was scheduled to be discussed by the Senate Appropriations Committee In the United States government, the Appropriations Committee can refer to either:
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Robert Oakes, a spokesman for state Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, who introduced the bill. ``In a perfect world, we wouldn't have this,'' Oakes said. ``It's an issue of fairness - every city and county and the majority of special districts have had to deal with this.'' If passed, the bill would require several special districts throughout the state - districts previously granted exemption from the fees - to pay into the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund. According to a CLWA CLWA Chip-Level Weibull Analysis CLWA Children living with AIDS (Lancaster, OH) Floor Alert in opposition to Torlakson's bill, SB 407 would ``further enshrine en·shrine also in·shrine tr.v. en·shrined, en·shrin·ing, en·shrines 1. To enclose in or as if in a shrine. 2. To cherish as sacred. the ERAF ERAF Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (California) ERAF Erythroid - Associated Factor concept as a component of California fiscal policy, contrary to the recent attempts to eliminate ERAF and restore property taxes to local government entities.'' When the ERAF fees went into effect in 1993, about 10 percent of property tax-collecting special districts were exempt from paying them. Due to the state budget crisis, Torlakson drafted SB 407 to get ERAF back from exempted districts that have revenue-generating capacity, called enterprise special districts. Enterprise special districts, Oakes said, will be able to make up for the lost revenues with adjustments to their own business plans. CLWA falls into the category because it has the capacity to earn its own revenue through water rates and connection fees. In essence, local property taxes that now go to CLWA will be taken by the state and used to pay for the recall election. CLWA customers will be forced to make up the difference. ``We're pretty upset - this is local money collected from local taxpayers for local water supply projects,'' CLWA spokeswoman Mary Lou Cotton said. Nicholas Grudin, (661) 257-5255 nicholas.grudin(at)dailynews.com |
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