PALMDALE EXPECTS PROSPERITY; COURTHOUSE, CITY BUILDING IN BUDGET PROPOSAL.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer A courthouse, a new city building, and the extension of the Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling greenbelt are part of Palmdale's $101.1 million budget plan for 1998-99. The proposed budget reflects an improved economic outlook for the community, with city officials projecting 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. revenues to hit $7.9 million, a 5 percent increase. ``The economy is improving,'' said Mayor Jim Ledford. ``We see some optimism in this budget.'' General fund expenditures - the fund for the city's day-to-day operations - are $30.8 million, up 2.9 percent from the current level. The general fund includes a $1.3 million reserve. The budget plan includes $10 million to build a courthouse for civil cases for which the Lancaster courthouse has no room, and a new building that will house public works public works pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. , economic development, code enforcement Code Enforcement is the act of enforcing a set of s, principles, or laws (especially written ones) and insuring observance of a system of norms or customs. An authority usually enforces a civil code, a set of rules, or a body of laws and compel those subject to their authority to officers and other city functions now spread about different locations. The courthouse and the Development Services Building would be built at the city's Civic Center, facing the new Civic Square. The proposed 16,500-square-foot courthouse would have four courtrooms, a civil court clerk's office, and a multipurpose mul·ti·pur·pose adj. Designed or used for several purposes: a multipurpose room; multipurpose software. multipurpose Adjective room that would serve primarily as a jury assembly room. Palmdale is proposing to build the courthouse and provide it rent free to 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 in exchange for a commitment that it would use the facility for at least 10 years. City officials hope to learn whether Los Angeles County will agree to the project in the next few weeks. ``The highlight this year will be the courthouse and the Development Services Building,'' Ledford said. The proposed budget includes $550,000 for the extension of the Sierra Highway greenbelt to the stretch between Palmdale Boulevard and Avenue R. The $1.4 million first phase, a stretch between Avenues Q and Q-7, was completed this spring. The city's projected 5 percent increase in sales tax revenue is the largest increase in several years, city officials said. ``I feel kind of encouraged,'' said Bill Ramsey William Thrace Ramsey (born October 20, 1920 in Osceola, Arkansas) was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Boston Braves in 1945. On November 1, 1944 he had been drafted by the Boston Braves from the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1944 rule V draft. , director of administrative services and the city treasurer. ``That tells me things are perking up around 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 .'' Other indications that the city's economy is turning around include a mention of the Dillard's department store chain, which is planning to build a 150,000-square-foot, two-story store at the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California. Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0. . The budget message said Dillard's is looking to open July 1999. The city also budgeted $1.7 million for street and curb improvements in the area of Division Street and Avenue P, near the shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into that contains Wal-Mart and Home Depot, as an incentive for a prospective retail company. City officials did not identify the company. Palmdale's law enforcement budget will increase from $9.1 million to $9.7 million. Most of the increase - $490,296 - is the result of cost-of-living increases. The remainder will go toward maintaining seven deputy positions that have been primarily funded through state grants. A public hearing to review the budget will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in council chambers at 708 E. Palmdale Blvd. In addition, the city plans to mail out Toone's eight-page budget message to residents. ``They should have an idea of what we're doing and where we are going,'' Ledford said. |
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