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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To all regarding Donovan-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I now know all I need to know about this person and
his opinions. Broad brush everything because he THINKS he knows something. I
suggest eveyone ignore him and send him to sit in the corner alone. By the way,
for your info Donovan, the tenants DO pay the taxes, it is you that does
not grasp the subject at hand.</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 1:25
PM</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>I am sorry you think I am being condescending, that is not my intent, but
I know I can come across that way over the Internet. I am sure you knowledge
of the PEM far outweighs my own. I am just trying to explain something to
you and you are the one being hostile and emotional rather than trying to
understand what I am saying. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>No, I would never sign a triple NNN, or even a NN lease because
I know what one is. That is way to much of a risk for my
personality. Again, you don't pay the property tax, you signed a contract
to pay a fee to cover the cost. You in part were probably kicked out
because your business cannot be a Bond-Lease, which means they cannot get any
money out of your contract with them. If they only have chain stores, the
value of the mall increases because they get rent no matter what happens,
and they can take loans and sell the contracts. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The Mall Management reserves the right to reduce rent. It would if meant
all the businesses in the mall would vacate or declare bankruptcy which would
leave them nothing. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Best,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Donovan</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Mike Deleve <coolerfixer@adelphia.net></I></B>
wrote:</DIV>
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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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<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=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.
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<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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