They tried to pass a massive school bond here a few years ago that would have increased our property taxes by about 35% as well. Fortunately it failed, but they have already promised to put it back on the ballot again. They still managed to pass a smaller college bond last year which bumped up our taxes.
We have a lot of homeless here because the community provides housing, food, and other services for them. Almost all of them are transients, not locals, and they gravitate here because the town caters to their needs. In contrast, a similar sized town just down the coast from us has almost no homeless population despite having a very small economy, and the reason is that they don’t cater to the homeless like our town does.
They tried to pass a massive school bond here a few years ago that would have increased our property taxes by about 35% as well. Fortunately it failed, but they have already promised to put it back on the ballot again. They still managed to pass a smaller college bond last year which bumped up our taxes.
We have a lot of homeless here because the community provides housing, food, and other services for them. Almost all of them are transients, not locals, and they gravitate here because the town caters to their needs. In contrast, a similar sized town just down the coast from us has almost no homeless population despite having a very small economy, and the reason is that they don’t cater to the homeless like our town does.