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The Police Department's request for funds to provide traffic control for the Santa Anita racing season drew vigorous debate at city council meeting. The possibility of indexing (tieing the cost of traffic control to the amount the track pays the city) was considered.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 3, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 3, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Traffic Engineering

Item ID: 3406AN

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

Council revises tax for admissions over race track protests. The revisions recommended apply to the existing admissions tax (a tax on other events, entertainment, amusement or competition other than horse racing held on premises with a capacity of 1,000 or more.)

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 12, 1983

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 12, 1983

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2424AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Arcadia City Council has recommended approval of a contract with Steiny and Company, Inc. to update the traffic light system on Baldwin Avenue. The project will link eight signals between Camino Real and the Gate Seven entrance of Santa Anita Park race track with the city's master computer control system. Article discusses costs and funding.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 11, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 11, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Traffic Engineering

Item ID: 3407AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

An ordinance will be introduced for first reading by Arcadia City Council whereby the city would receive .33 of 1% of parimutuel wagers at Santa Anita Park race track. If ordinance is approved, city would eliminate admission tax.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 31, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 31, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2418AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Santa Anita Park will have thoroughbred racing from December 26 through April 22, a season expanded by two weeks. The horse racing bill AB 3383 provided other changes in the sport that will affect Santa Anita Park.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 2, 1980

Pages: p. A-11

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 2, 1980

Pages: p. A-11

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1945-1980

Item ID: 2394AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

On a 4-1 vote, Arcadia City Council gave first reading to an ordinance whereby the City elects to receive a 1/3 of 1% of parimutual wagers at Santa Anita Park Race Track. Adoption means the city will not charge an admission tax.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 11, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 11, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2419AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Santa Anita Park completed its most successful season ever with $445 million wagered. Total attendance was also an all-time high. The admission tax netted the city $1.1 million. The Park's other contributions to the city are discussed.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 21, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 21, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2411AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Article outlines discussion at City Council meeting about the ballot measure to increase the utility tax to raise money for the schools. It was suggested a higher admission tax at Santa Anita Park be used to raise the money.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 15, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 15, 1981

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Schools - Finance

Item ID: 2924AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

City Council delayed action on racetrack tax. Tucker Bill provides that a city with race track be given .33 of 1% of the parimutual wagers instead of charging admission tax.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 18, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 18, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2420AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The Anheuser-Busch Inc. brewery will move its Clydesdale horses from the Santa Anita Park race track stables because of a disagreement in the cost of housing them.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 18, 1988

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 18, 1988

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2434AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

A bill that could generate an estimated $700,000 yearly in additional race track revenue for Arcadia cleared the State Assembly on Thursday and now heads for the Senate. The bill, AB 2780, seeks to authorize Arcadia and other cities to collect up to 1/3 of 1% of the total amount bet at a race track within their boundaries if the city were willing to forego any tax on admissions or parking. Arcadia has never charged a parking tax at Santa Anita Park. Arcadia city officials are neutral at this point, according to City Manager George Watts.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 30, 1982

Pages: p. A-2

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 30, 1982

Pages: p. A-2

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2414AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 7, 1982

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 7, 1982

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: City Council - Elections - 1982; Pellegrino, Donald E.

Item ID: 1087AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The city of Arcadia has already received two checks from Santa Anita Park race track, the first payments on its one-third of 1% of the parimutuel take.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 9, 1983

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 9, 1983

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2422AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Discussion of projects undertaken as part of a $2 million improvement program at Santa Anita Park race track.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 4, 1981

Pages: p. A-7

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 4, 1981

Pages: p. A-7

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2412AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

If Santa Anita Park race track and other tracks cannot successfully compete with the just instituted state lottery that results from the passage of Proposition 37, the horse racing industry may go to Sacramento to seek tax relief, according to Robert Strub, president of the Los Angeles Turf Club.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 11, 1984

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 11, 1984

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park - Los Angeles Turf Club

Item ID: 2426AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

New taxes on the Santa Anita Park race track are being considered as the city faces a possible $1.9 million budget deficit.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 10, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 10, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2413AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Police Captain Neal Johnson assures members of the Arcadia Business Association at their April dinner meeting that there should be no more traffic problems with the Olympic equestrian events at Santa Anita Park race track than on ordinary racing days.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 3, 1984

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 3, 1984

Pages: p. A-1 photo

Subjects: Olympic Games, 1984

Item ID: 2039AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Air conditioning is being installed at the track as part of $3.4 million in improvements being made this summer in preparation for the first season of inter-track wagering offered at Santa Anita Park this year from July 27 to September 14.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 13, 1988

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 13, 1988

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Santa Anita Park 1981 - 1990

Item ID: 2433AN

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

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The Police Department's request for funds to provide traffic control for the Santa Anita racing season drew vigorous debate at city council meeting. The possibility of indexing (tieing the cost of traffic control to the amount the track pays the city) was considered.

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.

Council revises tax for admissions over race track protests. The revisions recommended apply to the existing admissions tax (a tax on other events, entertainment, amusement or competition other than horse racing held on premises with a capacity of 1,000 or more.)

An ordinance will be introduced for first reading by Arcadia City Council whereby the city would receive .33 of 1% of parimutuel wagers at Santa Anita Park race track. If ordinance is approved, city would eliminate admission tax.

Santa Anita Park will have thoroughbred racing from December 26 through April 22, a season expanded by two weeks. The horse racing bill AB 3383 provided other changes in the sport that will affect Santa Anita Park.

On a 4-1 vote, Arcadia City Council gave first reading to an ordinance whereby the City elects to receive a 1/3 of 1% of parimutual wagers at Santa Anita Park Race Track. Adoption means the city will not charge an admission tax.

Santa Anita Park completed its most successful season ever with $445 million wagered. Total attendance was also an all-time high. The admission tax netted the city $1.1 million. The Park's other contributions to the city are discussed.

Article outlines discussion at City Council meeting about the ballot measure to increase the utility tax to raise money for the schools. It was suggested a higher admission tax at Santa Anita Park be used to raise the money.

City Council delayed action on racetrack tax. Tucker Bill provides that a city with race track be given .33 of 1% of the parimutual wagers instead of charging admission tax.

The Anheuser-Busch Inc. brewery will move its Clydesdale horses from the Santa Anita Park race track stables because of a disagreement in the cost of housing them.

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.

The city of Arcadia has already received two checks from Santa Anita Park race track, the first payments on its one-third of 1% of the parimutuel take.

Discussion of projects undertaken as part of a $2 million improvement program at Santa Anita Park race track.

If Santa Anita Park race track and other tracks cannot successfully compete with the just instituted state lottery that results from the passage of Proposition 37, the horse racing industry may go to Sacramento to seek tax relief, according to Robert Strub, president of the Los Angeles Turf Club.

New taxes on the Santa Anita Park race track are being considered as the city faces a possible $1.9 million budget deficit.

Police Captain Neal Johnson assures members of the Arcadia Business Association at their April dinner meeting that there should be no more traffic problems with the Olympic equestrian events at Santa Anita Park race track than on ordinary racing days.

Air conditioning is being installed at the track as part of $3.4 million in improvements being made this summer in preparation for the first season of inter-track wagering offered at Santa Anita Park this year from July 27 to September 14.

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.