Mary Suhm Tells the Council What Would Get Restored If There Was, In Fact, a Tax Hike
| Click to embiggen to see how much it'll cost in hiked taxes to restore services to parks, rec centers, street maintenance and libraries. |
And then there's the chart you see above, in which Suhm spells out which services would be restored to the FY2010-11 budget just in case the council goes ahead with a tax increase -- anywhere from one cent to 4.93 (since, after Monday's council walkout, that's the cap). Suhm also notes that overestimated the costs of implementing the General Obligation commercial program by $800,000 -- and says that money should go toward reducing "the amount of debt that the City will issue for settlement of the EMS billing lawsuit with the federal government." 8-27-10 Memos

































