This is to provide a update on recent activity.
County Budget
We are continuing to urge the Supervisors to bring the budget into
balance without raising taxes and fees. The county is in the red about
$7.1 million.
FEMA Flood "Insurance"
We support David Tunno's work on this issue. Many homeowners are forced to buy unwanted and unneeded flood "Insurance".
Fire "Tax"
CCTA continues to oppose the "tax" and supports the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association lawsuit to overturn the law.
General Plan Update
CCTA volunteers, led by Tonja Dausend, have identified over 1,000
parcels that may lose some allowed uses. We mailed postcards to over 700
property owners asking them to take our survey and join us by getting
on our email list. Forty-five people have
done so. We sent instructions on how to use the county website to
determine the changes on their property and provided a sample email for
them to send to the county.
The CCTA Board, Tuesday,
voted to establish committees for each Supervisorial District. Keith
Ancar volunteered to Chair the District 2 Committee and help the
property owners in the other Districts get organized. His email is Tentmaker1965@yahoo.com.
Taxpayer Alert TV Program
We now have completed 10 programs with very interesting guests. We record two 30 minute shows back to back on the 3rd Thursday
of the month at the PATV studio in San Andreas.. This month Supervisor
Merita Callaway is scheduled for one of the programs and the other is
not firmed up yet. We welcome suggestions for future programs.
If you have not already done so, please consider joining CCTA. You can
sign up on our website. Annual dues for Business Members is only $120
and General Membership is $12.
A big thank you goes to the wonderful volunteers and donors helping on
our projects, which focus on making a better future for Calaveras
county.
Best regards. - Al
Albert J. Segalla, President
