TOMORROW:  LEGAL PROBLEMS FOR MEASURE K

WELCOME TO THE SABATINO REPORT

October 3, 2006

CITIES LOSE $200,000 GUARANTEED ALLOCATION

MODESTO LOSES OVER $10 MILLION A YEAR

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One of Measure K’s nasty little secrets is that only 9.8% of the total funds generated by this tax are scheduled to go to “Local Streets”. 

The individual City’s are allocated money from the tax according to their population.  When you do the math, the following results are realized:

          City                                          Annual Fund Allocation

Hughson                                                      $           40,000

Waterford                                                                 53,300

Newman                                                                   60,000

Patterson                                                                 106,000

Oakdale                                                                   116,700

Riverbank                                                                133,300

Ceres                                                                       256,700

Turlock                                                                   443,300

Stanislaus County                                                    756,700

Modesto                                                               1,373,300

Do you think this allocation of funds will even scratch the surface of the needed road maintenance, pothole fixing or resurfacing?  Follow the money, the rich get the money and we pay the sales tax!

TOM VAN GRONINGEN FACILITATED TRANSPORTATION

TAX PROPOSED IN 2002 BY FORMER MAYOR SABATINO

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Dear Tom,

You were paid over $500 per month to act as a facilitator to develop a ballot measure for a one-half per cent increase in the sales tax.  That committee consisted of the nine Mayors and City Managers, two members of the Board of Supervisors, CEO Reagan Wilson, and Modesto Bee publisher Lynn Dickerson.

It is now time to publish your work. The ballot measure that the Bee insists on keeping secret.

As you know, one of the provisions in that ballot measure provided a base allocation of at least $200,000 for each city.  Modesto was to receive over

$11 million per year.

After reviewing the table above I urge you to do the right thing and make the ballot measure we developed in 2002 public.

Carmen

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Answer to yesterday’s question:

Stanislaus County spends $195,412 of taxpayer dollars advertising in the Modesto Bee.

Today’s question:

How much does the City of Modesto spend with the Modesto Bee?

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We cannot compete with the $500,000 the Measure K committee.

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