Also fully funded is $600,000 to keep the Veterans Winter Tent in the Midway district open year round. This funding will be in addition to $349,200 in FY-2014 CDBG and Emergency Shelter Grants.
$50,000 to sustain Waterman David Ross' Homeless Storage Check-in Center.
$50,000 to install and maintain Port-A-Potties, and maintenance of downtown public Portland Loo restrooms.
Irrespective of today’s City Council hearing, on a parallel track the City Council should put the issue of increasing Hotel taxes to a public vote, in order to save taxpayer money and an additional 2 years of courtroom drama. The City, Hoteliers, and the SDTA employees can get certainty immediately after a public vote.
The first opportunity to put a 5% legal Hotel Tax increase before the public for a vote would be as part of the Special Election for City Council District 4 scheduled for Tuesday May 21, 2013. A public vote would get rid of the need for the private 2% TMD and 3% Special Tax for the Convention Center Financing District (CCFD), and all expensive lawsuits. The private Hoteliers, City Council, the Independent Budget Analyst (IBA), and City Attorney Goldsmith have all pre-approved a 5% TOT increase from the existing 10.5% TOT to a Maximum effective rate of 15.5%. Therefore the Hoteliers’ complaints that a maximum effective 15.5% Hotel Tax rate would hurt the tourism industry in San Diego, can be ignored.
The effects of the City Council’s approval of today’s TMD Agreement and the Convention Center Financing District (CCFD) will cause a domino effect on a range of development possibilities for the San Diego Region. Without a public vote to increase hotel taxes by 5%, the City of San Diego and the NFL Chargers would not have the option of a multi-purpose Olympic Stadium and Contiguous Convention Center Expansion on our public waterfront. Without a multi-use structure in downtown, the City of San Diego will not have the opportunity to Redevelop our public QUALCOMM Stadium site in Mission Valley, and our public Sports Arena in the Midway District. Kowtowing to the private Hoteliers and SDTA should not come at a cost of a potential lost our NFL Chargers franchise, and no opportunities to redevelop Qualcomm Stadium and the Sports Arena.
"Statement: "(Five-year deals with the city's unions) give us in the first year $25 million, almost free money, because of a calculation of our pension payments, and $25 million in the second year," Mayor Bob Filner said in an April 8 interview with KPBS.
Determination: True
There's an irony worth considering here: Last August, then-Councilman Carl DeMaio stood with the city's current Republican council members, all of whom supported Prop. B, and pledged there would be enough City Council support to ensure the pensionable pay freezes assumed under the initiative would go forward despite ongoing legal battles.
Nearly a year later, Councilmembers Kevin Faulconer, Mark Kersey, Scott Sherman and Lorie Zapf may have a choice: Endorse labor deals that incorporate a five-year pay freeze, instant budgetary savings and a win for the mayor, or agree to one-year deals that diminish those bragging rights and the associated savings."
To protect taxpayers City Attorney Goldsmith recommends the issue of an increase to Hotel taxes be put to voters, or the City Council can hold all TMD funding until all 3 lawsuits are done in a few years.
The Hoteliers were trying to sell the City Council a "Pig in a Poke" by fraud, and legal wording changes to move all financial risk from the private hoteliers to taxpayers.
Please see the above link for our funding solution through today's City Council hearing Item S-400 Redevelopment (RDA) Successor Agency Appropriation of the State Department of Finance (DOF) Due Diligence Review (DDR) for the Low and Moderate Income Housing Funds (LMIHF). And below for the backup documentation.
How about a collaborate Investigation with statements from State Attorney General Kamala Harris on the City AND County of San Diego violations of the Federal Fair Housing Act and HEARTH Act?
May 21, 2010 Legal Memorandum to the CCDC Pages 31 to 37.
California State law (Health and Safety Code Secion 33021.1) that helps finance homeless solutions was reinterpreted in San Diego to forbid $1 Billion in former Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Tax Increment (TI) for use by Homeless Emergency Shelters and the social services within the Shelter
The results of the purposeful misinterpretation of State Redevelopment law, is that 60 San Diegans die due to homeless every year. Last year, an infant died because of lack of local funding sources, such as former RDA TI. The City Attorney's Legal interpretation in favor of the rich at the expense of the poor was a - Contributing factor and used as a example to get rid of Redevelopment descretion statewide.
- 33021.1. In a city and county, redevelopment includes improving, increasing, or preserving emergency shelters for homeless persons or households. These shelters may be located within or outside of established redevelopment project areas. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, only redevelopment funds other than those available pursuant to Section 33334.3 may be used to finance these activities. -
The City AND County San Francisco used over 50 percent of former RDA TI on Affordable Housing and Homeless solutions, instead of the 20 percent minimum Affordable Housing set aside. In 1991 in the name of the poor, the City AND County of San Francisco had Section 33021.1 passed so that any money spent on Homeless solutions was in addition to the 20 percent minimum Affordable Housing, not part of the 20 percent minimum.
The Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco has determined that an essential step toward the elimination of blight is improving, increasing, or preserving emergency shelters for homeless persons or households. Because of the serious impact of homelessness in San Francisco, it is essential that the law clarify that for the City and County of San Francisco, funds other than those available pursuant to Section 33334.3 of the Health and Safety Code can be used to accomplish these goals. In the City and County of San Francisco, the provision of emergency shelters for homeless persons or households is essential to the elimination of blight within established project areas.
However, nothing in this act or Section 33201.1 of the Health and Safety Code shall be deemed to authorize or limit, or in any way modify any authority of a redevelopment agency, other than a redevelopment agency in a city and county, to improve, increase, or preserve emergency shelters for homeless persons or households, either inside or outside a project area, from funds available pursuant to Section 33334.3 of the Health and Safety Code or any other source.”
Mayor Filner not only wants a $160,000 maximum salary, he is also asking that all TMD records, salaries, pensions, benefits, golden parachutes, etc. be subject to the Public Records Act.
"Filner also insists that TMD executives be prohibited from earning an annual salary of more than $160,000. The current President and CEO of the TMD, Joe Terzi, earns $435,000 per year, while Vice President Margie Sitton earns over $203,000. Two other executives earn over $170,000.
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Mayor Filner's Budget Revise Addresses Some Council, IBA Concerns
Also fully funded is $600,000 to keep the Veterans Winter Tent in the Midway district open year round. This funding will be in addition to $349,200 in FY-2014 CDBG and Emergency Shelter Grants.
$50,000 to sustain Waterman David Ross' Homeless Storage Check-in Center.
$50,000 to install and maintain Port-A-Potties, and maintenance of downtown public Portland Loo restrooms.
May 21, 2013 at 5:52 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Mayor Bob Filner Meets With World's Tallest Man, Sultan Kosen
Mr. Kosen in front of and inside City Hall.
https://twitter.com/NuhaSerrac/status...
http://www.10news.com/news/worlds-tal...
May 15, 2013 at 8:48 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Mayor Filner Signs Tourism Marketing Agreement
www.tinyurl.com/20130415a
Irrespective of today’s City Council hearing, on a parallel track the City Council should put the issue of increasing Hotel taxes to a public vote, in order to save taxpayer money and an additional 2 years of courtroom drama. The City, Hoteliers, and the SDTA employees can get certainty immediately after a public vote.
The first opportunity to put a 5% legal Hotel Tax increase before the public for a vote would be as part of the Special Election for City Council District 4 scheduled for Tuesday May 21, 2013. A public vote would get rid of the need for the private 2% TMD and 3% Special Tax for the Convention Center Financing District (CCFD), and all expensive lawsuits. The private Hoteliers, City Council, the Independent Budget Analyst (IBA), and City Attorney Goldsmith have all pre-approved a 5% TOT increase from the existing 10.5% TOT to a Maximum effective rate of 15.5%. Therefore the Hoteliers’ complaints that a maximum effective 15.5% Hotel Tax rate would hurt the tourism industry in San Diego, can be ignored.
The effects of the City Council’s approval of today’s TMD Agreement and the Convention Center Financing District (CCFD) will cause a domino effect on a range of development possibilities for the San Diego Region. Without a public vote to increase hotel taxes by 5%, the City of San Diego and the NFL Chargers would not have the option of a multi-purpose Olympic Stadium and Contiguous Convention Center Expansion on our public waterfront. Without a multi-use structure in downtown, the City of San Diego will not have the opportunity to Redevelop our public QUALCOMM Stadium site in Mission Valley, and our public Sports Arena in the Midway District. Kowtowing to the private Hoteliers and SDTA should not come at a cost of a potential lost our NFL Chargers franchise, and no opportunities to redevelop Qualcomm Stadium and the Sports Arena.
April 15, 2013 at 11:20 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
San Diego Mayor's First Budget Emphasizes Neighborhood Services, Public Safety
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/fact/a...
"Statement: "(Five-year deals with the city's unions) give us in the first year $25 million, almost free money, because of a calculation of our pension payments, and $25 million in the second year," Mayor Bob Filner said in an April 8 interview with KPBS.
Determination: True
There's an irony worth considering here: Last August, then-Councilman Carl DeMaio stood with the city's current Republican council members, all of whom supported Prop. B, and pledged there would be enough City Council support to ensure the pensionable pay freezes assumed under the initiative would go forward despite ongoing legal battles.
Nearly a year later, Councilmembers Kevin Faulconer, Mark Kersey, Scott Sherman and Lorie Zapf may have a choice: Endorse labor deals that incorporate a five-year pay freeze, instant budgetary savings and a win for the mayor, or agree to one-year deals that diminish those bragging rights and the associated savings."
April 15, 2013 at 6:48 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City Council Delays Decision On Tourism Marketing Agreement
http://tinyurl.com/20130409a
To protect taxpayers City Attorney Goldsmith recommends the issue of an increase to Hotel taxes be put to voters, or the City Council can hold all TMD funding until all 3 lawsuits are done in a few years.
April 12, 2013 at 10:48 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
City Council Delays Decision On Tourism Marketing Agreement
The Hoteliers were trying to sell the City Council a "Pig in a Poke" by fraud, and legal wording changes to move all financial risk from the private hoteliers to taxpayers.
Pathetic.
http://tinyurl.com/2130409a
Please see Video Start time: 2 Hours 52 Minutes.
April 9, 2013 at 7:36 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
San Diego Veterans Homeless Shelter Stays Open
www.tinyurl.com/20130408b
Please see the above link for our funding solution through today's City Council hearing Item S-400 Redevelopment (RDA) Successor Agency Appropriation of the State Department of Finance (DOF) Due Diligence Review (DDR) for the Low and Moderate Income Housing Funds (LMIHF). And below for the backup documentation.
www.tinyurl.com/20130408a
April 8, 2013 at 2:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Roundtable: Jail Deaths, Peace With TMD, City Attorney's Court Record, Transit Security Update
How about a collaborate Investigation with statements from State Attorney General Kamala Harris on the City AND County of San Diego violations of the Federal Fair Housing Act and HEARTH Act?
May 21, 2010 Legal Memorandum to the CCDC Pages 31 to 37.
www.tinyurl.com/20110911a
California State law (Health and Safety Code Secion 33021.1) that helps finance homeless solutions was reinterpreted in San Diego to forbid $1 Billion in former Redevelopment Agency (RDA) Tax Increment (TI) for use by Homeless Emergency Shelters and the social services within the Shelter
The results of the purposeful misinterpretation of State Redevelopment law, is that 60 San Diegans die due to homeless every year. Last year, an infant died because of lack of local funding sources, such as former RDA TI. The City Attorney's Legal interpretation in favor of the rich at the expense of the poor was a - Contributing factor and used as a example to get rid of Redevelopment descretion statewide.
- 33021.1. In a city and county, redevelopment includes improving, increasing, or preserving emergency shelters for homeless persons or households. These shelters may be located within or outside of established redevelopment project areas. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, only redevelopment funds other than those available pursuant to Section 33334.3 may be used to finance these activities. -
The City AND County San Francisco used over 50 percent of former RDA TI on Affordable Housing and Homeless solutions, instead of the 20 percent minimum Affordable Housing set aside. In 1991 in the name of the poor, the City AND County of San Francisco had Section 33021.1 passed so that any money spent on Homeless solutions was in addition to the 20 percent minimum Affordable Housing, not part of the 20 percent minimum.
The Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco has determined that an essential step toward the elimination of blight is improving, increasing, or preserving emergency shelters for homeless persons or households. Because of the serious impact of homelessness in San Francisco, it is essential that the law clarify that for the City and County of San Francisco, funds other than those available pursuant to Section 33334.3 of the Health and Safety Code can be used to accomplish these goals. In the City and County of San Francisco, the provision of emergency shelters for homeless persons or households is essential to the elimination of blight within established project areas.
However, nothing in this act or Section 33201.1 of the Health and Safety Code shall be deemed to authorize or limit, or in any way modify any authority of a redevelopment agency, other than a redevelopment agency in a city and county, to improve, increase, or preserve emergency shelters for homeless persons or households, either inside or outside a project area, from funds available pursuant to Section 33334.3 of the Health and Safety Code or any other source.”
March 29, 2013 at 12:47 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Judge Backs Mayor Filner In Blocking San Diego Tourism Marketing District
Mayor Bob Filner video on his alternative Tourism Marketing District (TMD) Proposal to get money for advertisement immediately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwDT49...
Mayor Filner not only wants a $160,000 maximum salary, he is also asking that all TMD records, salaries, pensions, benefits, golden parachutes, etc. be subject to the Public Records Act.
"Filner also insists that TMD executives be prohibited from earning an annual salary of more than $160,000. The current President and CEO of the TMD, Joe Terzi, earns $435,000 per year, while Vice President Margie Sitton earns over $203,000. Two other executives earn over $170,000.
March 21, 2013 at 1:29 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Filner Offers New Deal To TMD, TMD Rejects It
Mayor Bob Filner video on his alternative Tourism Marketing District (TMD) Proposal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwDT49...
March 19, 2013 at 8:02 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )