City Leaders Require PVE Residents to be the Highest Taxed of any City in CA

Why is taxation of Residents Council’s ONLY Consideration?

REFORM OPTIONS:

1. Diversify Revenue (Options are here)

Includes: Treat the parcel tax as a bridge rather than a permanent tax / fix

2. Past Non-Essential Services that caused deficits LINK

3️. Opportunities to Reduce Non-Essential Services causing deficits LINK

4. New Non-Essential Service Planned to PERMANENTLY Increase the Size of PVE’s City Spending LINK

2. Past Non-Essential Spending that Caused Deficits

  1. Provided unlimited free staff time to the AECOM development study for PVE Foundation's (McGowan's) plans to develop our city

  2. Designed two Roundabouts

  3. Redesigned the entire city entrance for Metro, removing our trees that line our streets and covering the entire entrance with concrete

  4. Conducted a Tree inventory of the all the trees in city documenting the girth, species, age, etc.

  5. City was warned about slide starting in Valmonte 3 years ago, but took no action. Recently had to pay and elevated emergency rate to repair and then rebuild a Residents’ backyard that dropped.

3. Opportunities to Reduce Spending Causing Deficits

  1. Eliminated the self-service digital records systems providing access to public records to the public and replaced it with a panel of attorneys who do it manually

  2. Reduce the quarterly glossy 6 page mailers to residents that tout Council's ability - to just a one-page of essential messaging that is important to residents

  3. Eliminate supplementation of the Stables concession (particularly for non-residents)

  4. Eliminate supplementation of private development - require they pay their own costs

  5. Require the Stables and Tennis Concessions to adhere to their contracts and be audited

  6. Professionalize cost management through shared services with other cities. Example: share accounting services and systems

  7. FEMA expert on 3/24/26 explained to Council FEMA grants are available for water intrusion, seismic upgrades and tens of millions in other costs identified in the Capital list of potential projects. Grant writers cost $100k a year.

  8. We pay for dispatching in the County Fire contract, but do not receive it because we use employees. We should get a credit for services not received and/or leverage County services.

4. Planned New Non-Essential Spending to PERMANENTLY Grow the Government Spending

  1. Council’s Plan to develop new Police and Fire Stations: (Approx: $20 million)

    • PVE’s 4/1/25 letter to solicit County to pay for some of the Fire Station, while PVE pays 100% of police station and 20% of the Fire Station on Parkland.

    • County’s 6/24/25 letter committing to building building the new Fire Station in 4 years from now

  2. Council’s new Tree Trimming program to trim all the trees in the city cyclically so each street has similar trimmed trees (like Disneyland) Video of ex-Mayor Murdock noting the no other city does this

  3. Council’s new Tree Management policy to manage and provide healthcare for the trees

  4. A new Sergeant position to do the clerical work of scheduling officer training. Sergeant are mid-level management with compensation $277,000-$370,000 LINK‍ ‍

  5. A new Parkland employee to micromanage contractor staff, rather than hold them accountable to their contracts

  6. New patrol officer positions, rather than fill the 3 open positions (30% of patrols) that have been unfilled for years.

  7. New patrol officer positions to address police overtime costs - when most overtime is paid to police management LINK