Editor,
Thank you Rudy Espinoza for your latest column, “Not another tax” on March 28 on the proposed new parcel tax for wildfire and sea-level rise mitigation. I also appreciate the honorable mention of the Latinx Dems Club endorsement of my candidacy for Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder & Chief Elections Officer.
As the community saw with Proposition 15, Schools and Communities First ballot measure in 2020, the current officeholder opposes split roll and other enforcement with corporate interests and major property owners out of fear of the potential for assessment appeals and concern that enforcement would overall unduly burden the office’s staffing, workloads and technology resources. In other words, corporations will lawyer up, so let’s go after the easier targets of working families.
Before considering yet another tax on the many of us who are already struggling to make ends meet, we need to focus on greater transparency, accessibility and equity in the current property tax system and greater accountability in county government oversight.
David Pollack
San Carlos
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Mr. Pollack - none of these would be under your authority to change. "focus on greater transparency, accessibility and equity in the current property tax system and greater accountability in county government oversight". Another election slogan? We have a County Manager who would not recognize "oversight" if it hit him between the eyes. As far as the rest of your identified issues, those are statutory.
Mr. Pollack, focus should be placed on the additional costs and fees tacked on to property tax bills in addition to costs and fees developers must pay before they dig up the ground. The higher the fees and costs, the higher the rents and costs of building housing, especially affordable housing. As the Assessor-County Clerk-Recorder, you may be able to provide greater accountability and transparency. However, as for “equity” – you’d probably need to first define what you mean by equity.
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