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Hi All <br>
<br>
Wikipedia seems to suggest Parcel tax is over ALL parcels, business
or residential. <br>
<br>
That is what one city staff has said would be the sort of funding
mechanism to use here, <br>
if we are having the city pay for it. I wonder if there are other
city based approaches to <br>
funding this that will not require a 66% vote, like:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ibank.ca.gov/programs_overview.htm">http://www.ibank.ca.gov/programs_overview.htm</a><br>
<br>
What I want to know is if a parcel tax bond, is a better interest
rate/easier payback<br>
than an infrastructure bank loan to make it worth pursuing. <br>
<br>
Anyone know of other ways to finance this in a public way? <br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
RAN<br>
<br>
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<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/31/2015 6:17 PM, Bill Broadley
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:551B4731.5060305@broadley.org" type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On 03/31/2015 05:26 PM, Steve McMahon wrote:
[snip]
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<pre wrap="">the competing open-access providers may offer different packages to
consumers vs business, but the infrastructure cost is the same.
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<pre wrap="">
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.
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<pre wrap="">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
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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.
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<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">
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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