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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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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 6, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Hotels, Motels, etc.
Item ID
214AN
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Newspaper Index
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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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Newspaper
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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Arcadia police and firefighters have voted to defer a portion of their salaries and health benefits to help close the city's budget shortfall. In total, employee pay and benefit deferments will free up about $300,000. The city is trying to close a $600,000 deficit this fiscal year in its $48 million general fund budget.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31509
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A12
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A12
Subjects
Arcadia city budget
Arcadia city employees
Unions
Item ID
31705AN
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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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Newspaper
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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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 19, 1994
Pages
p. H-3
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
3527AN
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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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Newspaper
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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Newspaper
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 salaries of city managers in the area have come under scrutiny following the city of Bell's scandal involving overpaid city officials. Bell's now-ousted city manager Robert Rizzo was earning close to $800,000. Arcadia city manager Don Penman's salary of $214,032 is shown in a chart along with other nearby city managers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32125
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
City employees--salaries
Item ID
32322AN
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The City Council agreed that private karaoke rooms, which have been associated with criminal activity in the area, should be barred from the city. The proposed ordinance, which will be considered August 3rd, would allow alcohol in restaurants with karaoke.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper183
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 21, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 21, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Karaoke clubs
Item ID
183AN
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City employees will receive a 3% pay raise after January 1, 1994. The last salary increase was given in June, 1992.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper525
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 1993
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
City Employees
Item ID
525AN
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City administrators and negotiators for the Arcadia Police Department have not yet reached a contract agreement. Officers want an immediate 10% raise for the first year and 4% increases the second and third years. City council has offered salaries that would make Arcadia police the second or third highest paid in cities surveyed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30852
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Arcadia Police Officers Association Union
Labor contracts
Salaries
Item ID
31040AN
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Vons Companies will close 11 supermarkets, lay off 250 employees, and dramatically cut executive salaries and benefits following a $20.9 million quarterly loss.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper622
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 1993
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Vons Companies
Item ID
622AN
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Local city governments in the San Gabriel Valley and Whittier are realizing the future costs of pensions and retirement benefits for their employees. The costs will be enormous and city governments need to save money for their future obligations. Arcadia's retiree medical cost is $375,062 this year and its unfunded health liabilities for current employees and retirees is $10.3 million. Unfunded health liability is the amount that would be needed to pay for all health obligations to current employees if they were to retire today, and for all retirees. Other cities' obligations are shown in a chart.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31422
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2009
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 29, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
City Employees
City governments
Local governments
Municipalities
Pensions
Retirement benefits
Item ID
31615AN
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Arcadia city wants ban on single-use plastic bags just 6 months before a statewide referendum goes to California voters. If adopted, it would affect approximately 36 Arcadia businesses and be implemented in two phases. Phase 1 would begin in early June and would apply to grocery stores with $2 million+ in annual sales, such as Vons, Albertsons, 99 Ranch Market. Phase 2 would include smaller businesses, like pharmacies and convenience stores, and would be implemented 6 months later. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 4, April 21, 2016.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34542
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2016
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 21, 2016
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council-2010-2019
Beck, Tom
Environmental issues
Marshall, Gail
Plastic bags
Radle, Dean
Tait, Tom
Item ID
34734AN
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Newspaper Index
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The City Council will postpone a mail-in ballot vote on reallocating street lighting assessment fees from July 15 to November.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31010
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 22, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 22, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Lighting assessment districts
Lighting districts
Street lighting
Street lights
Item ID
31205AN
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Property owners overwhelmingly rejected the city's $2.2 million tax increase Tuesday, casting "no" votes by a 2 -to- 1 margin against the Fire Suppression District.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper10224
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 1997
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 1997
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Elections - Fire Suppression District
Item ID
10174AN
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Newspaper Index
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City council is considering a proposal to help subsidize the wages of city employees who are called away to military service.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper22216
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2001
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 20, 2001
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
City Council
Subsidy, wages
Item ID
22431AN
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City of Arcadia to split cost of fixing critical ballot error with Anaheim-based election consultant Martin and Chapman Co. Both the city and Martin and Chapman have agreed to pay $5408 each to fix a Chinese language error in the April 2012 City Council election.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33134
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 8, 2012
Pages
p. A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 8, 2012
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
City Council Elections--April, 2012
Martin and Chapman Co.
Item ID
33331AN
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City staff projects a $3.5 million deficit in the 2010-2011 fiscal year, due in large part to rising retirement costs. City Manager Bill Kelly told City Council that even with the Caruso mall, expansion at Westfield Shoppingtown and at Rusnak auto dealership, the city still faces a budget shortfall in about 5 years. He suggested a library assessment district as a potential revenue source.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29796
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 30, 2005
Pages
p. A4, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 30, 2005
Pages
p. A4, A6
Subjects
Arcadia City Municipal Budget - projections
Item ID
29981AN
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City officials have authorized for the first week of October a previously postponed mail-in vote on whether to reallocate street lighting assessment fees. Residents will vote on a reorganization that would make the payments correspond fairly to the benefits received.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31192
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 9, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 9, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Lighting assessment districts
Lighting districts
Street lighting
Street lights
Item ID
31387AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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