Email to County Administrator about Bond Plan with 8% Interest Rate
Dear Mr. Huckeberry and Mr. Burke,
I have received multiple inquiries regarding what the average annual tax impact will be for the median priced home of $120,693 at the interest rate of 8% which is the rate you are asking voters to approve. The calculations for this number have interest rates of 2.78% for 5 years, 3.2 % for the next 5 years and 3.45% thereafter per the voter guide.
I believe this is a fair question as every voter should understand what the maximum impact would be to their finances given this is the rate you are asking them to approve.
Thank you in advance for your prompt response to this question.
Regards,
Ally
Ally Miller
To read Chuck’s classic response: Response From County Administrator – click here
Poverty In Tucson Field Workshop Reveals “Resilient” People
At a recent meeting of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, a woman told a heartbreaking story as she urged the supervisors to reject a proposal, put forth by Pima County administrator Chuck Huckelberry, to charge Tucsonans a forfeiture fee.
At the May 19 meeting, the woman told the supervisors that she had to voluntarily forfeit her pets due to her inability to meet the costs of regular care. She did not want other pets owners to suffer her same fate.
Just days before, on May 15, according to a University of Arizona press release, more than 100 community members, city officials and nonprofit organizers turned out to hear University of Arizona students from the Poverty in Tucson Field Workshop present the results of their semester-long efforts to collect data from low-income households across Tucson.
Pima County has the highest property taxes in the state. Over seven weeks, the students knocked on 2,000 doors and completed 257 surveys in eight neighborhoods designated by the census as having high poverty rates. More than half their sample lived in “extreme poverty,” which means an income of less than half the poverty threshold.