Sunday, September 24, 2023
Did you hear or read about in the Jan. 25 Leader the “State of the City” speech?
If you did, you may have noticed that there was some money for streets but not enough, some money …
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Did you hear or read about in the Jan. 25 Leader the “State of the City” speech?
If you did, you may have noticed that there was some money for streets but not enough, some money for sewer repair but not enough, and working on funding for housing. They will be looking at the state’s increased car tab fees and sales tax revenues.
There was no mention of money for all the things you were told you could have at Mountain View. That is because currently there is none.
So why encourage you to think of all the wonderful things you want, knowing they do not even have enough money for streets, sewers, and housing?
To comment: publiccomment@cityofpt.us
Nancy Erreca
PORT TOWNSEND
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greggk47
You're right Msse. Erreca there's never enough money and part of that has to do with prioritizing. Since when does the City (meaning us) become responsible for supplying affordable housing? Take a look at the money spent on the Cherry Street Project, run by the city, and tell me the Evans Vista project is going to come in under budget and on time?
Going back to 2018 when EJFR annexed City of Port Townsend, the city still collected $908,000/yr for fire services they no longer provided because state law wouldn't allow them to cease collecting.
Mauro now says the streets aren't repaired because car tabs were cut. Seems like street repair is a city function that should be apart of the city taxes we pay. The $908,000 for repairs is your fire tax money from annexation. They could have used that money for Mountain View, sewer and street repair in 2021 and 2022 but they didn't.
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