[Davisgig] Thoughts on "why the average user needs this"

[Robert Nickerson]

Hi All

Wikipedia seems to suggest Parcel tax is over ALL parcels, business or 
residential.

That is what one city staff has said would be the sort of funding 
mechanism to use here,
if we are having the city pay for it. I wonder if there are other city 
based approaches to
funding this that will not require a 66% vote,  like:

http://www.ibank.ca.gov/programs_overview.htm

What I want to know is if a parcel tax bond, is a better interest 
rate/easier payback
  than an infrastructure bank loan to make it worth pursuing.

Anyone know of other ways to finance this in a public way?

Thanks
RAN



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On 3/31/2015 6:17 PM, Bill Broadley wrote:
> On 03/31/2015 05:26 PM, Steve McMahon wrote:
> [snip]
>> the competing open-access providers may offer different packages to
>> consumers vs business, but the infrastructure cost is the same.
> Infrastructure costs the same, so we should charge the same.  After all we are
> talking only about running fiber+infrastructure and allowing ISPs to buy access.
>
>> That said, this does really affect how we look at municipal financing. If a
>> tax is based on living units, that would leave businesses out. If we had to
> I believe the proposed tax is based on parcels, of which there are 30,000 in
> davis, 6,000 owned by businesses.  There seemed to be very little flexibility on
> this because of the restrictions on how the city can raise funds for a project
> like this.
>
>> If municipal infrastructure was financed by a city bond, paid back via
>> monthly charges for those using the service, then there's no economic
>> reason for charging businesses differently for their part of the fixed
>> costs.
> Right, so business parcel tax is the same as the rest.  They might well pay ISPs
> more for a business class connection to get better support, reverse DNS, larger
> bandwidth quotas, more IP addresses, VPN access, etc.
>
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