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Chula Vista West Side's No-Mello Divide
I was only speaking to a narrative I perceived in this article. I couldn't disagree with your stated aims. But it's not easy to get agreement about what the right path is, or even agreement on what the facts are to base that upon. School district's board elections tend to be dominated by the those who get checks from the schools. Those outside of that realm tend not to have the same sustained interest to influence a district's direction. But if you have people willing to volunteer in an effort to make the district better, I'd think that creating some sort of organization and a website that the public can use to access useful information and interact might be a worthwhile path to the ends you seek. It's easy to become overwhelmed by school budget documents and the arcana associated with them. A few people will likely have to do a lot of work to make this accessible to the many. Good luck.— September 20, 2012 5:56 p.m.
Chula Vista West Side's No-Mello Divide
These Mello-Roos exactions, or the exactions paid for by developers, are themselves examples of the lack of the shared sense of community obligation. Many of the things that such fees paid for had previously been financed by community wide taxes. Instead of asking the community to share in the cost these facilities, government put these costs on new development, and by extension the buyers of the new homes. Prop 13 already forced these same new owners to pay a disproportionate share of the property tax funding of government due to Prop 13's purchase price assessment provisions. So government then decides to stick them alone with additional costs of building news schools and parks. It's hypocritical to fret over the lack of these owners participation in paying for public facilities out of their area as dividing the community when the same, only worse, has already been done to them.— September 20, 2012 11:39 a.m.