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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Donovan- nice condecending tone. One question
though, have you ever signed a commercial triple net lease? No? So you really
don't know what you're talking about. So in the mean time, STFU!!!!</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=coolerfixer@adelphia.net
href="mailto:coolerfixer@adelphia.net">Mike Deleve</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 22, 2007 3:31
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Palouse
Monopoly Empire Mall; Gas/Food prices</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Mike,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Tenants don't pay property taxes, they pay fees that the property owners
pass onto the tenants. I checked this with the County Assessors office a year
or so ago.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>What you don't seem to follow in my argument is that if the Palouse
Empire Mall was forced to pay the taxes or lose all of its tenants. It
would choose to pay the taxes. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Let me explain it this way, Mike. If management raised your rent from say
$1500 a month to $2000 a month, and the taxes were raised $300, your rent
would go from $1500 a month to $2300 a month. If the most you could afford was
$2000 a month, then PEM would have to either lower your rent down $300, or
lose you as a tenant. If it loses you as a tenant, it still has to pay the
property taxes, and it has lost income from a tenant. If all businesses
caved unless the PEM lowered rents, it would lower rents rather than lose
every tenant. PEM can only charge what its richest tenants can afford. PEM
would have to counter act the government's increases through lower rents, or
go bankrupt. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I hope you followed that. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Let me also point out that the PEM is already forcing
out non-chains and locally owned businesses anyway. So the
only businesses we would be taxing from would be big national chain
stores competing with small locally owned shops. And even if it didn't
remove all the private locally owned businesses, remember, the taxes
collected would be given to locally owned merchants as tax breaks. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>You are already out of the mall for a reason, Mike, you were not good
enough for PEM Management. Why you want to protect these people, that did
you in unjustly, only baffles me.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Donovan <BR><BR><B><I>Mike Deleve
<coolerfixer@adelphia.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gee Donovan, what a great idea! As a former
tenant of the Palouse Empire Mall, I can speak with great confidence about
the taxation there. Let me be very clear here. <STRONG><U>IT'S NOT THE
MALL THAT PAYS THE TAXES!!!!! IT'S THE TENANTS!!!</U></STRONG> Furthermore,
the "common area" space taxes are paid through common area fees.Common
areas include the parking lot and any non retail space inside the mall,
as well as any green areas outside. It's all divided up through a
convoluted formula based on store frontage and total square footage of the
store. So, no, the mall owners aren't going to be taxed any more at
all. This is a very sore subject for me, I had months that the common
are fees exceeded $2000.00 per month! That was for my little 600 square foot
store. So yeah, lets revalue the mall, increase the taxes, chase away
the remaining businesses in there so people have even more reason to spend
money in Spokane. Sheesh.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=gussie443@hotmail.com
href="mailto:gussie443@hotmail.com">Ellen Roskovich</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 21, 2007 1:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Palouse
Monopoly Empire Mall; Gas/Food prices</DIV>
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<DIV>Food prices are only going to go up even more for several
reasons;</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>1) The massive extinction of honey bees has created a void in
pollination of 1/3 of the US food supply. 60% of honey bees have died,
with no cure or solution in the near future.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>2) Increases in fuel prices increase the shipping costs of
food. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>3) Many crops were wiped out this year due in the freakish
winter storms. For example, oranges had a massive freeze.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>4) The UI and WSU student populations have decreased, the main income
for Winco. With a reduced volume in sales, Winco has to raise prices to
cover losses in volume sales.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>5) No competition. With no other discount grocery stores in the area,
like say a Super Wal-Mart, Winco can raise its prices with no
consequences, everybody has to eat.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>6) The owners of the Palouse Empire Mall are raising their rents.
</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I think it is obvious, Moscow needs competition in the area to curve
rising prices. It also needs to do some sting operations on gas price
fixing which obviously is going on. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Maybe, many of you guys should call Pat Vaughn and ask him to
reassess the property value of the Palouse Empire Mall, which is monopoly.
Perhaps if the mall can make such huge increases in their leases, the
value of the only active retail mall on the Palouse is much higher than
what the County Assessor has it listed as. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If I had the time, and a personal interest at stake, like so many of
you do, I would contest the taxable value of the Palouse Empire Mall. It
is clear that it has a really high value since it is able to charge so
much for its lease spaces and has no real competition. Moscow is
probably losing $100,000s in tax revenue that could go to things like
finding a new space for the public bus to park on the west side of town,
and to give property tax breaks to locally owned businesses that are
having a hard time due to the fact no mall will let them conduct business
on their property. Just a thought to those litigious and want what's best
and for our community.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Donovan<BR><BR><B><I>Ellen Roskovich
<gussie443@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE><STRONG>As the cost of gas continues to climb at the
pumps, the price of food starts to rise at the grocery stores. Has
anyone else noticed this recently?</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE><STRONG>Ellen Roskovich</STRONG></DIV></DIV><BR
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