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City officials expect a $764,000 shortfall for the fiscal year ending in June and nearly $1.7 million shortfall for 1997-98.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper8750
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 1997
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 1997
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
8706AN
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Newspaper Index
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The City expects a budget shortfall as high as $1.4 million by June.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper8752
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 22, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 22, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
8708AN
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Newspaper Index
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The City Council approved a $25.7 million general fund budget after resolving a $418,000 projected shortfall and agreeing to the closure of City Hall on alternate Fridays.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3701
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 30, 1994
Pages
p. H-2 photos
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 30, 1994
Pages
p. H-2 photos
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
3576AN
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Newspaper Index
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The new City Council has several options to try to fill the projected $2.2 million general fund budget gap. Options include dipping into city reserves, raising taxes and fees, salary cuts and layoffs.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3652
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 19, 1994
Pages
p. H-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 19, 1994
Pages
p. H-3
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
3527AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council on Wednesday called for a study on whether it should contract with Los Angeles County for its fire protection services. The decision came after a marathon 5 1/2 hour session on the budget that attracted more than 400 spectators.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10237
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 21, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 21, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Fire Department
City Council, 1990 - 1999
Budget
Item ID
10187AN
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Newspaper Index
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The city budget passed unanimously on Tuesday night and included the elimination of 9 full-time employee positions, an increase in paramedics fees and a one-year, 1 percent utility tax increase.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6241
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 19, 1996
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 19, 1996
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
City Council, 1990-1999
Item ID
6066AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia Board of Education passed a $32.5 million budget for 1993-4 with no cuts in classroom services. The budget included $22 million for staff salaries and $1.5 million for books and supplies.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper188
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 24, 1993
Pages
p. A-5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 24, 1993
Pages
p. A-5
Subjects
Schools - Budget
Item ID
188AN
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Newspaper Index
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The City Council approved a $57 million budget for 1993-1994 which closes a $2.1 million deficit with $266,000 in increased revenues, $880,000 in cuts and $1 million of the City's $5.6 million in reserves.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper189
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 24, 1993
Pages
p. 15; Highlander section
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 24, 1993
Pages
p. 15; Highlander section
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
189AN
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Newspaper Index
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The City Council approved a $57 million budget for 1993-1994 which closes a $2.1 million deficit with $266,000 in increased revenues, $880,000 in cuts and $1 million of the city's $5.6 million in reserves.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper202
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
202AN
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The City Council increased the bed tax, charged to customers staying in a hotel, from 8% to 10%. The increase will generate an estimated $140,000 a year, which would help to close the city's projected $2.2 million shortfall in the 1993-94 budget.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper214
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Hotels, Motels, etc.
Item ID
214AN
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Los Angeles County officials are holding a meeting at 6:00 PM today at Arcadia County Park to address concerns and to "clarify misperceptions" about a plan to bring in a new operator and manager for the park's tennis center. The community is concerned about pricey fees or membership dues if the recommended operator iTennis is approved by the Board of Supervisors next month. Tony Bell, spokesperson for Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, said there will be no pay-to-play or required membership. The new contract will be to improve the quality of services, programs and amenities.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32774
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia County Park
Bell, Tony
Letts, John
Tennis
Item ID
32971AN
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Measure A would increase sales tax by .75% to bring local Arcadia sales tax rate to 10.25%. It will be placed on a June 4 mail-in ballot. If passed, Measure A would yield about $8.6 million annually, which would be dedicated to keeping city services at the levels residents have come to appreciate.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35441
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Ballot measures
City of Arcadia Budget
Sales tax
Item ID
35633AN
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Shortly before the city cut $400,000 in salaries and programs to help close a nearly $1 million budget shortfall, the city's managers and supervisors asked the City Council to consider giving them what they termed long-overdue raises.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10856
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
City Employees
Item ID
11198AN
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Newspaper Index
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City Council is looking at fee increases, proposed elimination of as many as 14 full-time positions and other controversial alternatives to balance the 1996-97 budget.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper6240
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 1996
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 18, 1996
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
City Council, 1990-1999
Item ID
6065AN
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Newspaper Index
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127 city employees have agreed to postpone their salary increases for 6 months to help close the city's projected $2.2 million shortfall. This action would save the city $466,000.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper215
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
City Employees
Item ID
215AN
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Measure A seeks to repeal utility users tax in Arcadia, on the April 12 ballot. The utility users tax is a source of revenue expected to generate $7 million for the city this year. Arcadia charges residents 7% for gas, water, and electricity, and 5% for telephone on utility bills. The city estimates each household pays less than $10 per person per month on average. The tax is 12.5% of the city's $54.9 million general fund budget. If repealed, it would mean a 12.5% cut to city services, including cutting 12 police officers, closing a fire department, increasing blight, street sweeping would be reduced from weekly to every other week. Programs for children and seniors would be eliminated and library and museum hours would be reduced significantly. Larry Papp helped author the initiative.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34452
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 7, 2016
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 7, 2016
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia city budget
City Council Elections--2011-2020--April 2016
Measure A--Utility Users Tax
Papp, Larry
Item ID
34644AN
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Three firefighters and a fire technician will be laid off February 1 in the latest cost-cutting move in the city's five-year struggle to balance the budget.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper11909
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 1998
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Fire Department
Item ID
12110AN
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Arcadia residents may vote again on street lighting fees. Under the new proposal, single family homes on arterial streets would pay about $17 a year, while those not on arterial streets would pay about $27 a year, making the assessments more fair. Voters in 2008 rejected a proposal to fund the lighting and now the city is considering another mail-in vote.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31898
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2010
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Mail-in ballots
Street lights
Street lighting assessment districts
Item ID
32095AN
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Arcadia property owners will be asked to renew a street lighting fee schedule and assessment in June, when funding is set to expire. Officials warned that without an extension of the lighting assessment district, the city would lose about $420,000 a year. Unless the assessment is renewed, the city might have to cut services such as police protection, fire and emergency medical response services, library services, and recreation programs. Arcadia property owners currently pay 40% of street lighting repair and maintenance costs, while the city covers the other 60%. That would remain unchanged in the new assessment district, but the amounts each household pays will be different. Family households in residential neighborhoods will be charged $28.44 a year, while single-family homes along major thoroughfares will pay $16.73 a year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32000
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2010
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 27, 2010
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Street lights
Street lighting assessment districts
Item ID
32180AN
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Newspaper Index
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Voters max out Arcadia sales tax. Huge lead for Measure A pushes levy to 10.25% ceiling set by state. The election was conducted exclusively by mail. The vote was for a .75% sales tax increase to bring the tax from 9.5% to 10.25%. This hike could bring in $8.6 million annually to keep city services, especially public safety, at current levels.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35519
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A11
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 6, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A11
Subjects
Ballot measures
Elections
Sales tax
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Newspaper Index
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