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Wrong Time to Raise Taxes and Fees in El Segundo
by Michael D. Robbins
Director, Public Safety Project, PublicSafetyProject.org
March 3, 2014
Updated and expanded March 6, 2014.
This is the wrong time to raise taxes and fees on residents and businesses in El Segundo, for multiple reasons.
First, the existing three-year City employee union contracts are expiring later this year, and the City Council will negotiate new union contracts later this year after the April 8, 2014 City election. Raising taxes and fees before then will greatly weaken the City Council’s bargaining position with the unions, especially the politically active and extremely aggressive firefighter and police unions, which are the primary cause of the City’s financial problems.
Second, Mayor Bill Fisher and Councilmembers David Atkinson and Marie Fellhauer have claimed that the City’s financial problems are largely due to El Segundo receiving a lower percentage of the property taxes generated from property in the City than other cities in California receive.
That claim is false for multiple reasons.
The percentage of total property tax revenue generated in El Segundo that the City receives has not changed in many years, and the last time it changed, it went up due to the extraordinary efforts of Mayor Carl Jacobson. In fact, although El Segundo gets about 6.2% of the property tax revenues generated by property in the city, compared to the average of 11% for all 88 cities in Los Angeles County, El Segundo property values are much higher than the values in many other cities. The higher property values in El Segundo help compensate for the lower than average percent of property tax revenue allocated to the City of El Segundo.
But most striking is the fact that the City is receiving the highest amount of property tax revenues it has received in any year since fiscal year 2000/2001, and probably in the City’s entire history, as shown by the bar chart below. The FY 2012/2013 property tax revenue is at a record high of $6,332,163 – up by 46% and $1,994,509 above FY 2000/2001 property tax revenue. Property tax revenue has increased in 9 of the last 13 fiscal years, with an average yearly increase of 3.6% and $166,209.
Mayor Fisher and Councilmembers Atkinson and Fellhauer have repeatedly berated El Segundo residents for not paying enough property taxes. City residents paid about $20,770,813 in property taxes in FY 2012/2013, which is about 20.9% of the total, of which $1,287,790 came back to the City (about 6.2%). The 20.9% figure is not surprising given that only about 25% of the city’s land area is residential property and about 75% is industrial and commercial … Continue reading
April 8, 2014 El Segundo General Municipal Election News and Information
Last updated: Friday, May 9, 2014 at 01:45 AM PT.
This page will be updated regularly with links to informative articles about the upcoming April 8, 2014 El Segundo General Municipal Election.
Bookmark this page and review it often for breaking news and information.
(Posts are in priority order, not chronological order; newer posts appear in bold text.)
April 8, 2014 El Segundo General Municipal Election
Ballot Argument and Rebuttal Against El Segundo Measure A Tax Hikes
City of El Segundo 2014 Measure A Tax Hikes – City Attorney’s Impartial Analysis
Recapping the Election – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Michael Robbins
El Segundo Flyer #1: Vote “NO” on Measure A – Eleven Tax Hikes in One Measure!
El Segundo Flyer #3 – Vote “NO” on Measure A, and Against BILL FISHER!
El Segundo City Employee Unions Contributed $17,500 to Measure A Tax Hikes Thus Far
Have the Measure A Supporters Earned Our Trust?
City of El Segundo Can Save $3.3 Million Per Year in Employee Pension Costs
Welcome to the City of El Segundo $100K+ CalPERS Pension Club!
El Segundo Herald Misreports City’s $6.3 Million Property Tax Revenue as $1 Million
El Segundo Firefighters’ Union is Bankrolling the Measure A Campaign to Hike Taxes
El Segundo Measure A Co-Chair Joe Harding was Against the Tax Hikes Before He was For Them
Wrong Time to Raise Taxes and Fees in El Segundo
Which El Segundo City Employee was Paid Nearly $600,000 in His Last Year?
2009-2010 City of El Segundo Separations due to Budgetary Reasons Mostly Early Retirements
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
April 15 Council Meeting – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Mike Robbins
Post-election Council meeting – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Michael Robbins
Council pay procedures – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Marianne Fong
Fellhauer is a Union Puppet – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Marianne Fong
Can We Save Mayberry? – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Marc Rener
Recapping the Election – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Michael Robbins
Fire Union Bankrolling “Yes on A” Campaign – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Marianne Fong
No on Measure A – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Michael Robbins
Not happy with Measure A – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Marianne Fong
No on Measure A – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Mike Robbins
Something Fishy About Measure A – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Marianne Fong
NO ON “A” – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Art Lavalle
A Correction is In Order – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Mike Robbins
No on Measure A – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Helen Armstrong
Frustration – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Richard J. Switz
Measure ‘A’ – Letter to the El Segundo Herald by Richard J. Switz
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Which El Segundo City Employee was Paid Nearly $600,000 in His Last Year?
by Michael D. Robbins
Director, Public Safety Project, PublicSafetyProject.org
March 3, 2014
Firefighter and Police Unions are Breaking the City’s Budget
Generally, El Segundo sworn firefighters and police officers are by far the highest paid City employees. Their “associations” (unions) endorse, contribute money to, and campaign for the City Council candidates who will give them the biggest pay raises and increases in benefits and pensions, and then raise taxes and fees on residents and businesses to pay for it all. Their total compensation, including salary, benefits, and pension contributions paid by the City’s taxpayers, has been about $150,000 to more than $330,000 per individual per year.
The managers’ salaries, benefits, and pensions are increased along with those of their subordinates, to prevent “salary compaction”, and to maintain a minimum 5% higher level of compensation than their subordinates.
Existing sworn police and firefighter employees, including managers, can retire as early as age 50 (police) or 55 (firefighters) with a guaranteed annual pension income of up to 90% of their single highest year salary, including all the “Special Compensation” add-ons in their union contracts for things that are already a requirement of the job or are unrelated to the job.
Thus, Mayor Bill Fisher increased the employee pension income and the pension cost to the taxpayers for the police and firefighter employees (and for all City employees) every year of the Great Recession, because he gave them all excessive and unsustainable raises every one of those years!
City of El Segundo $100K Pension Club
Here is a list of retired El Segundo City employees in the “$100K Pension Club”, i.e., with CalPERS pensions paying them in excess of $100,000 per year guaranteed by the taxpayers regardless of pension fund investment performance:
http://www.FixPensionsFirst.com/calpers-database/?first_name=&last_name=&employer=EL+SEGUNDO
Highest Paid El Segundo City Employee in Calendar Year 2009
Former El Segundo Police Chief David Cummings was the highest paid City employee in calendar year 2009. He retired in 2009 with about eleven weeks left in the year, and had total 2009 compensation of about $596,657. This included his City contract income and his CalPERS pension income while he continued working as the El Segundo Police Chief after his retirement. Cummings’ post-retirement City employment contract acknowledged that he would be receiving his $210,000 per year CalPERS pension income while he continued working as the City’s police chief after his retirement. …
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State Ballot Measures – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Michael D. Robbins
Please vote “yes” on Propositions 32 and 35, and “no” on all others, including all tax measures, all L.A. County measures (except B?) and El Camino Measure E. Taxes are unreasonably high. We’re forced to pay for massive welfare fraud (at least 25 percent, billions of dollars per year statewide) and K-12 education costs for illegal alien children who are not supposed to be in California (about 40 percent, $20 billion per year). … Continue reading
No to Proposition 30 – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Kurt Schweter
It seems that The Beach Reporter has decided to jump into the political arena and into the deep end for that matter.
Proposition 30 is yet another shifty tax increase, disguised to “save the children” yet once again. The money will go to schools and nobody can touch it, just like Jerry Brown promises. (Anybody buying this one?) But where in the “schools” — classrooms, teachers, supplies, teacher benefits? … Continue reading
Wrong Choice – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Bob White
No congratulations on your first endorsement of a proposition. The column has total emphasis on that old emotional manipulator, education. Voters should be aware that Proposition 30 has no guarantee of funds going exclusively to education. It will only provide more money to a state that is already spending too much in the wrong direction. Priorities are badly scrambled. Not many students are likely to be taking the “Bullet Train” to class. … Continue reading
R.B. schools have received enough – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Mitch Kimball
The Redondo Beach School Board and Superintendent Keller should be ashamed of themselves. Putting another bond on the ballot four years after the last $140 million Measure C is a slap in the face to all the parents who constantly support the fundraisers, the never-ending cash requests and the Ed Foundation donations.
What’s worse are the deceptive glossy mailers coming to our homes. … Continue reading
Don’t Support Measure E – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Marilyn Montenegro
As a longtime, knee-jerk supporter of education, the decision to oppose Measure E was not easy. In making my decision I considered the following:
El Camino College is unable to provide instruction to meet the needs of current students. There is not enough money to pay operating expenses … Continue reading
Not Another Bond – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Sanford Motte
Are you as exasperated with yet another school bond as I am? If Measure Q passes, it will be the third bond in the last 11 years totaling a quarter of a billion dollars in property tax hikes for homeowners in Redondo Beach. For people who purchased their homes in the late 90s or within the last 12 years, you will assume an abnormally large portion of this property tax increase. People who have homes valued between $600,000 and $1 million will see very noticeable increases to your already expensive tax bill. … Continue reading
No New Taxes – Letter to The Beach Reporter by Marianne Fong
Please vote “yes” on Proposition 32 and “no” on all tax and bond measures, including 30 ($6 billion/year income and sales tax hike), 38 ($10 billion/year income tax hike), 39 ($1 billion/year tax hike); L.A. County Measure J (another 30 year sales tax hike), and El Camino Community College District Measure E ($350 million in new bond debt, probably costing about $700 million with interest).
Taxes are too high, and we also pay business taxes which are passed on to us as consumers. Bond measures create additional debt and require taxes to pay principle and interest. Bonds often cost double the amount borrowed with interest. … Continue reading