Alhambra : Council Delays Vote on Tax
The City Council on Monday postponed a decision on whether to ask voters to impose a fee on residents and businesses to raise $24 million for a new police station.
Council members said they wanted more time to study the proposed fee arrangement, known as a benefit assessment district, which would effectively increase property taxes. The council may ask residents to approve the fee in a September or November election, although the fee does not require voter approval under state law.
If the fee passes, homeowners would pay $49 the first year, apartment owners $37 per unit and businesses $1164 per acre. The fees would go up 5% a year for 30 years, City Manager Kevin J. Murphy said.
In 1988, voters soundly defeated a $16.6-million general-obligation bond measure that would have financed construction of the new police station.
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