Friday, February 15, 2013

Our Chamber of Commerce view of sales tax consideration


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."
"Editor:  On Thursday, Feb. 7, at the Pacifica City Council and the Financing City Services Committee meeting, a committee member stated that the business community and the Chamber of Commerce would have supported a sales tax last year. That is factually incorrect.

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

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

Shilling for these shake down artists.

At 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.

Anonymous said...

Don't you take that snippy tone with me, Mister!

What would the Trib be without the LTE's?

Anonymous said...

The vitriolic snipes at the Chamber sound like they are coming from someone who is either disgruntled or has no clue.
If 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.

Anonymous said...

What would the tribune be without LTE's?

Realtor ad's, a couple legal notices, and Mayburrito's piece.

Anonymous said...

like 1015 said

Anonymous said...

I hear this council is disbanding the Financial services committee. Good.

They have done nothing but try to increase taxes. Oh yeah, they put out that phony survey.

Goodbye.

Anonymous said...

Yeah 139 who needs 'em? Council can try to raise taxes all by itself.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps council found that managing FCSTF had become like trying to herd cats.

Anonymous said...

I 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.

Steve Sinai said...

Now they can disband the Open Space Committee.

Anonymous said...

Disband, but don't tell the committee. Now there's a conspiracy.

Anonymous said...

Why bother? The damage is done.

Anonymous said...

@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.

Anonymous said...

Tough 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.

Anonymous said...

How much money has the open space committee brought into town?

Rough guess anyone?

Anonymous said...

OSC brings in a lot of revenue. look at all the people who visit Mori Point and spend money at all the nearby businesses.

Anonymous said...

McDonald's dollar menu!

Anonymous said...

@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!

Anonymous said...

449 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.

Anonymous said...

The 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.

Anonymous said...

Plater? 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.
For those who think OSC is on its way out, this beach grab will prove in a few years time to be quite a legacy.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

nah, being closed down. plover burgers. usfws and osc had a fit.

Anonymous said...

New hippie joint taking Denny's spot. Going to be called
Seeds & Weeds, How Pacifica Feeds.

Anonymous said...

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!

Anonymous said...

The coffee shop rent Keri's went up to $4,000 bucks and they wanted the guy to sign a 10 year least.

I would think the owner is in his 70's.

That is a lot of ham n eggs to pay that rent.

Anonymous said...

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

http://www.pacificariptide.com/files/2010-941608148-07d39dd9-zo.pdf

Anonymous said...

That explains the huge increase in dues.

Anonymous said...

business owners in open revolt
chamber 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

Anonymous said...

the ship is sinking? hell, commodore, the whole friggin' fleet is going down. to the lifeboats!

Anonymous said...

good 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?

Anonymous said...

1:51

Sounds alot like city hall.

Anonymous said...

We want Don!

We want Don!

We want Don!

Repeat after me!

Anonymous said...

@248 Peebles ain't coming back. You need to forget him.

Anonymous said...

@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.