Rebuttal to Argument in Favor of Measure G
Proponents claim Measure G is part of a comprehensive “plan” to fund needed City services, but don’t tell us what
that plan is. In 1998, the Citizens Budget Committee recommended that the City develop a sustainable fiscal plan,
including re-internalization of the entire parks budget into the general fund—and a permanent end to this unfair tax.
Now, 8 years later, we are still waiting, and we are now being threatened anew with cuts in essential services
unless we pay another $8 million over the next six years. The city cannot possibly justify this threat when its own
budget figures show huge revenue increases and burgeoning reserves. Meanwhile, the City continues to increase our
sewer, water and garbage rates with no accountability.
The proponents are blaming the state for “borrowing” money, but don’t mention that the state will begin returning
an additional $660,000 per year to the City on July 1. Combined with increased sales and property tax revenues, this is
more than enough money to replace a $1.3 million dollar parks tax without adversely affecting city services.
We cannot afford to lock ourselves into a six-year “plan” that consists of nothing more than raising taxes and
increasing the costs of living and doing business in Davis. It is time to end the unfair, regressive and unnecessary tax
and force City leaders into an honest dialogue on the City’s actual fiscal needs.
Please Vote NO on Measure G
(For additional information and budget figures, visit: yvm.net/vme/no-on-g).
Don C. Price
Professor of History, Univ. of California, Davis
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Alzada Knickerbocker
Owner, Avid Reader, Davis
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Carolyn J. Hinshaw
Retired Clinical Laboratory Scientist
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John S. Chiles
Member, Yolo County Taxpayers Association
Member of one of Davis’ Oldest Families
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Richard K. Entrikin
Concerned Far East Davis Resident
Treasurer, Committee for Efficient Government
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Please join us by voting NO on Measure G.
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