PALMDALE VOTES AGAINST CAR TAX REPEAL PROPOSAL; CITY WORRIES FUNDS WOULD NOT BE REPLACED.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer The Palmdale City Council voted against jumping on the bandwagon band·wag·on n. 1. An elaborately decorated wagon used to transport musicians in a parade. 2. Informal A cause or party that attracts increasing numbers of adherents: to repeal The Annulment or abrogation of a previously existing statute by the enactment of a later law that revokes the former law. The revocation of the law can either be done through an express repeal the car tax, saying the proposals do not address the greater issue of how local governments are funded by the state. In a 3-2 split Wednesday night, the council declared its opposition to repealing the car tax. The majority cited a variety of reasons, including the dysfunctional dys·func·tion also dis·func·tion n. Abnormal or impaired functioning, especially of a bodily system or social group. dys·func nature of state funding for local governments, the uncertainty of passage of a constitutional amendment to protect city revenue and the need to bolster This article is about the pillow called a bolster. For other meanings of the word "bolster", see bolster (disambiguation). A bolster (etymology: Middle English, derived from Old English, and before that the Germanic word bulgstraz education spending. During the recession of the early 1990s, the state stripped away $3 billion from city and county governments. Only $200 million has since been returned to local coffers, said Councilman David Myers. ``We should really look at a total restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). of funding for local government,'' said Myers, who was joined by Joe Davies and Terry Judge in opposing the tax repeal. An additional reason cited for opposing the tax is the possibility that state voters would reject a constitutional amendment that would guarantee local governments would continue to receive the same amount of revenue that they would get with the tax in place. That could lead to a situation in which the car tax, which provided $4.6 million to Palmdale last year, is repealed and the state would be under no obligation to make up that lost revenue. The city councils of Lancaster and 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, have indicated they are willing to support the repeal of the car tax provided their revenue streams were constitutionally protected. Lancaster received $4.9 million this year from the car tax, while Santa Clarita received $4.8 million. With the state looking to have a $4.4 billion budget surplus this year, Republicans are pushing to end the car tax. The tax, properly known as the vehicle licensing fee, has been on the books since 1935. Democrats in the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: The League of California Cities also objects to repealing the car tax, calling it an assault on a constitutionally protected source of revenue for local governments. |
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