Pacifica Tribune Letter to the Editor, 2/12/12. "Chamber view on sales tax increase," by Jim Wagner, Pacifica Chamber of Commerce Board Member
| "...the Chamber did not support any tax last year." |
With so many tax initiatives already on the ballot, the Chamber did not support any tax last year and there was no visible support for such a tax in the larger business community.
In the future, I would expect members of the Financing City Services Committee to be more careful with their statements. If and when a tax initiative is launched in Pacifica, the Chamber's Board will meet, debate and decide if we should support, oppose, or remain neutral on a new tax. We will conduct a survey of our membership to ask their opinions prior to any formal decision. We at the Chamber are extremely sensitive to anything that would increase our members' cost of doing business."
Posted by Kathy Meeh
Shilling for these shake down artists.
ReplyDeleteAt least Don, did nothing while running the Chamber into the ground.
This chamber will crash and burn trying to double the rates, and not including non members in the phone book.
The chamber returns to being just a phone book.
Don't you take that snippy tone with me, Mister!
ReplyDeleteWhat would the Trib be without the LTE's?
The vitriolic snipes at the Chamber sound like they are coming from someone who is either disgruntled or has no clue.
ReplyDeleteIf you'd rather go back to the good 'ole days when Don E. was taking orders from those fonts of wisdom at Pacificans for Sustainable Development, make it quick, we are almost flat broke.
What would the tribune be without LTE's?
ReplyDeleteRealtor ad's, a couple legal notices, and Mayburrito's piece.
like 1015 said
ReplyDeleteI hear this council is disbanding the Financial services committee. Good.
ReplyDeleteThey have done nothing but try to increase taxes. Oh yeah, they put out that phony survey.
Goodbye.
Yeah 139 who needs 'em? Council can try to raise taxes all by itself.
ReplyDeletePerhaps council found that managing FCSTF had become like trying to herd cats.
ReplyDeleteI guess Maryanne and Boy Blunder are smarter and much more well versed in business than a great think tank for the City finance problems.We are screwed.
ReplyDeleteNow they can disband the Open Space Committee.
ReplyDeleteDisband, but don't tell the committee. Now there's a conspiracy.
ReplyDeleteWhy bother? The damage is done.
ReplyDelete@341 Nah, they're bringing in Gilligan and Mrs. Howell to get us out of this mess. Consultants. You heard Marianne's explanation of why they need consultants, didn't you? Yeah, whatev Marianne, but watch for Gilligan and the old bat.
ReplyDeleteTough love is tough regardless of your role. Cut the Chamber some slack. They are suffering their own slings and errors over on Riptide. Arrows, arrows.
ReplyDeleteHow much money has the open space committee brought into town?
ReplyDeleteRough guess anyone?
OSC brings in a lot of revenue. look at all the people who visit Mori Point and spend money at all the nearby businesses.
ReplyDeleteMcDonald's dollar menu!
ReplyDelete@720 oh yeaaaah, thousands of visitors, tens of thousands every month, just dripping with money to spend on our dazzling array of restaurants and shops and cinemas and those real special eco-attractions. We're being overrun. Don't those people have homes? Oh yeah. We the bomb!
ReplyDelete449 Let's be clear on this...any revenue produced by the OSC is completely accidental. Making money, shudder, is not their goal, never was their goal, never will be their goal. All they want is open space and you better not clutter it up.
ReplyDeleteThe Snowy Plover take of Linda Mar Beach and our tax dollars is a fraud. Stop it before Plater discovers a new source of revenue and minions of slow wits to support him.
ReplyDeletePlater? They didn't need Plater to take the beach. Lancelle put that in motion a few years ago with the Open Space Committee leading the way. The plover's best friend is Noel Blincoe who has been a leading member of OSC since it began. Once they involved USFWS it was game over. Pacifica lost, as usual.
ReplyDeleteFor those who think OSC is on its way out, this beach grab will prove in a few years time to be quite a legacy.
the nobies got the beach. they got the quarry. they got mori point. they will get Denny's next, I heard it is going out of business.
ReplyDeletenah, being closed down. plover burgers. usfws and osc had a fit.
ReplyDeleteNew hippie joint taking Denny's spot. Going to be called
ReplyDeleteSeeds & Weeds, How Pacifica Feeds.
Is that Denny's a franchise or a company store? Hardly fine cuisine but it has its place and serves a lot of locals and tourists. There's nothing else late-night, early morning. Hope it's just a rumor. We don't need a vacancy in such a visible spot, or, a series of failed restaurants in there. Say it isn't so!
ReplyDeleteThe coffee shop rent Keri's went up to $4,000 bucks and they wanted the guy to sign a 10 year least.
ReplyDeleteI would think the owner is in his 70's.
That is a lot of ham n eggs to pay that rent.
Chamber tax returns. Looks like the chamber is broke also. So much for the shills who get on here and riptide and shill for the chamber
ReplyDeletehttp://www.pacificariptide.com/files/2010-941608148-07d39dd9-zo.pdf
That explains the huge increase in dues.
ReplyDeletebusiness owners in open revolt
ReplyDeletechamber members in disarray
a board turning on itself
public criticism on multiple fronts
bleeding money
jacking fees
open cronyism in front of council
a council that wants an audit
blub blub the ship be sinking
the ship is sinking? hell, commodore, the whole friggin' fleet is going down. to the lifeboats!
ReplyDeletegood grief. i guess that huffy anon on 2/15@1009 was referring to the chamber being almost flat broke. from habit i just figured he meant the city. another financial disaster, huh? can we blame Bray?
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ReplyDeleteSounds alot like city hall.
We want Don!
ReplyDeleteWe want Don!
We want Don!
Repeat after me!
@248 Peebles ain't coming back. You need to forget him.
ReplyDelete@247 There are a lot of similarities. How depressing is that? All that business expertise and phffft. Talking about the chamber, of course. We all know city hall is a no-expertise zone.
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