Sunday, June 03, 2007

City life after losing $75 million

Property tax reform would affect funding for the Florida Theatre, among other things. Tony Allegretti has the whole story. Some effects of the $50 million tax cut:
-- Cut 10 percent from the budgets of the Jacksonville Zoo, library system and Jacksonville Children's Commission.
-- Eliminate all public service grants, a savings of about $10 million.
-- Eliminate the entire $1.8 million contribution to the Duval County Health Department.
-- Close the canning kitchen.
-- Offer new city employees a 401(k)-style retirement benefit instead of pensions.

These photos of the Florida Theatre are from the April artwalk:



1 comments:

Mike said...

Please understand that I am not trying to be rude but most people who are against the property tax reform don't even pay property taxes. I pay $8,000 a year in property tax. I believe a sales tax increase in the neighborhood of 2-3 cents would offset the tax reduction. This would also create a windfall for the state seeing all of the illegal aliens who don't pay income tax would be paying the sale tax increase along with the rest of us.