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The Arcadia Tax Reform Committee will present signed petitions to the City Council re requested repeal of 3 ordinances levying assessments on street sweeping and sewer service, and an increase in the utility users' tax from 5% to 7%.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3437
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 16, 1978
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 16, 1978
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Taxation
Item ID
3325AN
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Newspaper Index
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Don Pellegrino, incumbent on the ballot for City Council, has definitive opinions, listed in this article, on the election issues: the budget, race track admission, utility tax, etc.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1088
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 7, 1982
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 7, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1982
Pellegrino, Donald E.
Item ID
1087AN
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Howard Jarvis, the father of Proposition 13, spent an hour in Arcadia, knocking down the "straw man" arguments he said were being put up against the property tax initiative. Prop. 13 would reduce property taxes in California to 1 percent of what market value was in 1975-1976, plus whatever is necessary to pay off current bonded indebtedness. A 2 percent annual inflation rate is written into the constitutional amendment.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33918
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 19, 1978
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 19, 1978
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Jarvis, Howard
Property Taxes
Item ID
34112AN
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Arcadia City Council lowered the city's utility tax from 7 to 5% and rescinded the street-sweeping assessment.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3438
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 8, 1980
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 8, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Taxation
Item ID
3326AN
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A Federal revenue-sharing budget of $132,000 and general fund budget of $12.5 million for 1983-84 were approved by Arcadia City Council.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper670
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 26, 1983
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 26, 1983
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Budget
Item ID
670AN
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The Arcadia Tax Reform Committee has officially been formed and will petition the City Council to rescind the new sewer and street-sweeping levies and the increase of the utility tax from 5% to 7%.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3433
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 30, 1978
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 30, 1978
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Taxation
Item ID
3321AN
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Jeff Dring, Co-chairman of the Arcadia Tax Reform Committee, is running for City Council with Richard Haltom (they are asking voters to vote for both or neither of them.) Article provides biographical information.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1073
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 21, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1980
Dring, Jeff
Haltom, Richard
Item ID
1072AN
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Richard Haltom is running for City Council as a team-mate with Jeff Dring (they are asking voters to vote for both or neither of them.) The two are co-chairmen of the Arcadia Tax Reform Committee. Biographical details included.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1076
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 2, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 2, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1980
Haltom, Richard
Dring, Jeff
Item ID
1075AN
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The City Council voted to put a measure on the April 1989 ballot that would make the city clerk an appointed rather than an elected position.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1130
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 10, 1988
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 10, 1988
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1989
Item ID
1129AN
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Gang-related violence has jumped significantly in the past four months.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper55
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 29, 1992
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 29, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Gang activity
Item ID
55AN
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Arcadia would lose approximately $472,268 yearly if Santa Anita Park race track were to close down and the 324 acre facility were to be developed with low density residential units. Losses would be partially offset by $190,750 in new property taxes and $278,482 miscellaneous taxes. New city services would account for a 6.18% increase in the city budget.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2436
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 8, 1974
Pages
p. A-3
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 8, 1974
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Santa Anita Park 1945-1980
Item ID
2384AN
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Damage from the June 28, 1991 Sierra Madre earthquake totals $6.2 million. Cal Tech seismologists downgraded the temblor from 6.0 to 5.8.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1496
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 4, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photos
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 4, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photos
Subjects
Earthquakes
Item ID
1495AN
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Police were still searching for suspects in the murder of Arcadia resident Katherine Skinner, age 19. Miss Skinner was a telecommunications major at Pasadena City College and was employed at Fashion Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2002
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 16, 1980
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 16, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Murder
Item ID
1995AN
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Arcadia City Council must decide how to pay the Metropolitan Water District taxes for 1979-80. Currently the city pays 50% and the property owners pay 50%.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3570
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 2, 1978
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 2, 1978
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Water
Item ID
3449AN
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Water rates in Arcadia will be lowered by $.04 per 100 cu Ft effective July 1, 1979. The burden of the water tax, now split 50% each by the city and property owners, will fall 100% on property owners. However, the increased property tax is tax deductible.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3571
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1978
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1978
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Water
Item ID
3450AN
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Both the 1983-84 initial contract proposal to Arcadia Teachers Association and the 1983-84 budget of the Arcadia Unified School District were adopted.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2525
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 11, 1983
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 11, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
School Board
Item ID
2467AN
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May Co. (May Company) closed both its Pasadena and Arcadia stores on January 7 because of poor business.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper796
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1989
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
May Co.
May Company
Item ID
796AN
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Petitions are being circulated that are aimed at thwarting the possible closure of two elementary schools. The savings would amount to only .7% of an $18 million school budget - not enough to justify closing the schools, according to the parents of students at Bonita Park and Baldwin Stocker.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2733
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1980
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2667AN
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The Arcadia Unified School District Board of Education and Arcadia teachers both approved the contract settlement reached by negotiations on May 5.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2875
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 25, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 25, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Employees
Item ID
2802AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia City Council voted to raise the Uniform Transient Occupancy Tax (a hotel/motel "bed tax") from 5% to 8% effective October 1.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3444
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 22, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 22, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Taxation
Item ID
3332AN
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