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Tax rates are being increased in the city's five lighting districts. Article discusses status of other tax rates and notes an increase of 9.2% in the total assessed valuation of all properties in Arcadia.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 7, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 7, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Taxation

Item ID: 3327AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia City Council candidate Johanna A.M. Hofer is circulating petitions asking for a reduction in the city's utility tax rate.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 9, 1988

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 9, 1988

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Taxation

Item ID: 3333AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Santa Anita Park pays 38.5% of the overall tax revenue of the City of Arcadia. It pays the usual taxes plus a unique admission tax. Article outlines a history of the tax and the projects it has helped finance.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune Special Supplement

Date: October 16, 1980

Pages: p. 8

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune Special Supplement

Date: October 16, 1980

Pages: p. 8

Subjects: Taxation

Item ID: 3328AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia City Council voted to raise the Uniform Transient Occupancy Tax (a hotel/motel "bed tax") from 5% to 8% effective October 1.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 22, 1986

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 22, 1986

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Taxation

Item ID: 3332AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia City Council lowered the city's utility tax from 7 to 5% and rescinded the street-sweeping assessment.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 8, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 8, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Taxation

Item ID: 3326AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

City Council has renewed an examination of the admission tax Santa Anita pays compared to other race tracks. The track provided 34.1% of the city's total annual revenues in the fiscal year 1980-81. Traffic control costs in Arcadia are higher than in other cities with race tracks.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 16, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 16, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Taxation

Item ID: 3330AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Jack Saelid has proposed a cap on the utility tax: when a yet-to-be-determined sum has accrued, collection would cease. City Attorney Charles Liberto will research and report on a possible ordinance.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 25, 1981

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 25, 1981

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: Taxation

Item ID: 3329AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

City Council met with representatives of Santa Anita Park race track to discuss the possibility of raising the admissions tax. Council is concerned with the cost of traffic control. Benefits to the city from the track have increased 22.6% in the past two years and 43% the previous season.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 30 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 30 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Taxation

Item ID: 3331AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Best Disposal Company will ask City Council for an approximate 40% increase in rates. Arcadia has had the lowest rates in the Valley for a number of years. A survey of the area shows that Best's request is for a higher rate than the average.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 19, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 19, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Refuse and Refuse Disposal

Item ID: 2321AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The city may use eminent domain to secure the Peter Kiewit property at 301 E. Santa Clara Street. Republic Development Co., which has a contract to develop the area, has asked the City Council's help in securing the property.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 11, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 11, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Community Redevelopment

Item ID: 1276AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia Methodist Hospital will keep open its maternity ward, in spite of an extremely low birth rate in the Foothills area.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 9, 1984

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 9, 1984

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Hospitals - Arcadia Methodist Hospital

Item ID: 1794AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Dean A. Beck and Associates, developers of a proposed Target Department Store on East Huntington Drive in Arcadia, want to know the status of owner participation opportunities which might be available to people owning property within the project area.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 26, 1984

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 26, 1984

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Target Department Store

Item ID: 818AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Pete Kinnahan, assistant city manager in Arcadia, told City Council that Target Department Stores were interested in the Arcadia Datsun property and the adjacent city-owned property on Third Avenue.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 11, 1983; December 15, 1983

Pages: p. 1; Arcadia Tribune

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 11, 1983; December 15, 1983

Pages: p. 1; Arcadia Tribune

Subjects: Target Department Store

Item ID: 814AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

City Council unanimously agreed to hold a June election to attempt to bail the school district out of its financial troubles. Proposition A would increase the utility tax by 2%, bringing in $550,000. Proposition B would raise the tax an additional 1% bringing $250,000 more. The funds would be for maintenance of school property and facilities used by the city.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 12, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 12, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Schools - Finance

Item ID: 2923AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

El Monte lost another in a series of lawsuits regarding water rights on neighboring Arcadia property.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 3, 1988

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 3, 1988

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Lawsuits see Actions and Defenses; Actions and Defenses

Item ID: 332AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia Beautiful Commission awarded 16 property owners hand-decorated plaques for their beautification of residential as well as business properties. This year the Arboretum was given a special award.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 27, 1985

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 27, 1985

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Boards and Commissions

Item ID: 626AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Staff people from Sanitation District 15 attempted to explain the reasons for an $11 sewer assessment that will be tacked on to the property taxes next year. About 100 people attended the meeting at Camino Grove School.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 2, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 2, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Sewers

Item ID: 3205AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia voters will consider whether or not to ban "safe and sane" fireworks. The sale of fireworks has been the local American Legion Post's chief source of funds. Arcadia property owners have suffered over a quarter of a million dollars in property damage from fireworks over the past six years.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 4, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 4, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Elections - Local

Item ID: 1504AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Voter turnout was the lowest in recent memory for a municipal election, according to some Arcadia precinct workers. 5,044 out of 26,595 voters cast ballots for a 19% turnout.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 17, 1988

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 17, 1988

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: City Council - Elections - 1988

Item ID: 1126AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

After narrowly rejecting a Target Department Store as a suitable use for a property on Huntington Drive Tuesday night, the Arcadia City Council will have to await another proposal if it still plans to redevelop the property. The vote was 2-2 with and abstention. the measure needed 3 votes to win.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 6, 1984

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 6, 1984

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Target Department Store

Item ID: 823AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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Tax rates are being increased in the city's five lighting districts. Article discusses status of other tax rates and notes an increase of 9.2% in the total assessed valuation of all properties in Arcadia.

Arcadia City Council candidate Johanna A.M. Hofer is circulating petitions asking for a reduction in the city's utility tax rate.

Santa Anita Park pays 38.5% of the overall tax revenue of the City of Arcadia. It pays the usual taxes plus a unique admission tax. Article outlines a history of the tax and the projects it has helped finance.

The Arcadia City Council voted to raise the Uniform Transient Occupancy Tax (a hotel/motel "bed tax") from 5% to 8% effective October 1.

Arcadia City Council lowered the city's utility tax from 7 to 5% and rescinded the street-sweeping assessment.

City Council has renewed an examination of the admission tax Santa Anita pays compared to other race tracks. The track provided 34.1% of the city's total annual revenues in the fiscal year 1980-81. Traffic control costs in Arcadia are higher than in other cities with race tracks.

Jack Saelid has proposed a cap on the utility tax: when a yet-to-be-determined sum has accrued, collection would cease. City Attorney Charles Liberto will research and report on a possible ordinance.

City Council met with representatives of Santa Anita Park race track to discuss the possibility of raising the admissions tax. Council is concerned with the cost of traffic control. Benefits to the city from the track have increased 22.6% in the past two years and 43% the previous season.

Best Disposal Company will ask City Council for an approximate 40% increase in rates. Arcadia has had the lowest rates in the Valley for a number of years. A survey of the area shows that Best's request is for a higher rate than the average.

The city may use eminent domain to secure the Peter Kiewit property at 301 E. Santa Clara Street. Republic Development Co., which has a contract to develop the area, has asked the City Council's help in securing the property.

Arcadia Methodist Hospital will keep open its maternity ward, in spite of an extremely low birth rate in the Foothills area.

Dean A. Beck and Associates, developers of a proposed Target Department Store on East Huntington Drive in Arcadia, want to know the status of owner participation opportunities which might be available to people owning property within the project area.

Pete Kinnahan, assistant city manager in Arcadia, told City Council that Target Department Stores were interested in the Arcadia Datsun property and the adjacent city-owned property on Third Avenue.

El Monte lost another in a series of lawsuits regarding water rights on neighboring Arcadia property.

The Arcadia Beautiful Commission awarded 16 property owners hand-decorated plaques for their beautification of residential as well as business properties. This year the Arboretum was given a special award.

Staff people from Sanitation District 15 attempted to explain the reasons for an $11 sewer assessment that will be tacked on to the property taxes next year. About 100 people attended the meeting at Camino Grove School.

Arcadia voters will consider whether or not to ban "safe and sane" fireworks. The sale of fireworks has been the local American Legion Post's chief source of funds. Arcadia property owners have suffered over a quarter of a million dollars in property damage from fireworks over the past six years.

Voter turnout was the lowest in recent memory for a municipal election, according to some Arcadia precinct workers. 5,044 out of 26,595 voters cast ballots for a 19% turnout.

After narrowly rejecting a Target Department Store as a suitable use for a property on Huntington Drive Tuesday night, the Arcadia City Council will have to await another proposal if it still plans to redevelop the property. The vote was 2-2 with and abstention. the measure needed 3 votes to win.