[Vision2020] Bursting water mains

[Pat Kraut]

Well, thanks for the info on sales tax but I didn't say anything about that
because this is not news to me. But if you feel better OK by me! I believe
that as a city grows more taxes are collected by a wider base and that would
be good for the city as a whole and perhaps...just perhaps some property tax
could be relieved. I know it is more complicated than that but I would like
to see some new business in town and something besides another coffee shop.
Moscow is not exactly a destination location we are more on the way to
somewhere and thats not all bad but to stay here there must be options.
Thanks tho I enjoyed all the comments.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cynthia nichols" <cynthiann0 at mac.com>
To: <pkraut at moscow.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bursting water mains


Pat,

I wish to disagree with you on this one.

  It seems like most of the new business growth goes into buildings
that were built and paid for by tax money (alturas, business
incubator, east side marketplace, even the old tidyman's)--and the
money they pay that would be property taxes normally, is actually
applied toward paying off the cost of the building--not going into
city coffers to pay for infrastructure.  The people who are so-called
"pro business" anti Moscow city interference actually LOVE to accept
tax money to get them started--but then hate it if the people want to
regulate them or put any constraints on them.

I still maintain that those businesses end up leaving US holding the
bag on infrastructure. Think about the new urban redevelopment agency
for the silos---they want THEIR sewers/water mains to be updated to
bring them up to date WITH TAX MONEY--but they won't be paying into
the coffers to repair the water mains farther up 6th st. Pretty
selfish. And if you mention sales tax, I'll just have to chuckle--cuz
the sales tax goes to the state and is reapportioned--we never get it
all back.

cordially,

cynthia
On Oct 20, 2007, at 12:49 PM, pkraut at moscow.com wrote:

> New growth brings new taxes especially if it brings in new business so
> paying for more city stuff won't be a problem.
>
>
>> Reading BJ's e-mail about water, made me think of another water
>> issue.
>>
>> I'd like to know how the pro-growth advocates will pay for new water
>> mains when all this growth completely overtaxes existing city
>> infrastructure like water mains. I know of at least two water main
>> bursts that took place about a month or two ago--those are merely the
>> ones I'm aware of--there are probably other incidents as well.
>>
>> Are you going to have taxpayers foot the bill? (I know that you'd say
>> asking developer fees to offset the cost would certainly be "anti-
>> business".)
>>
>> Of course, when the water's gone, I guess we won't have to worry so
>> much about water mains bursting--but shouldn't we be planning ahead
>> and taking care of what's already here before outgrowing our
>> infrastructure?
>>
>> cynthia nichols
>>
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