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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 03112008 - SD.1 SD.1 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Date March 11, 2008 Matter of Record On this date, Federal D. Glover, Chair of the Board of Supervisors, invited the public to speak. The following persons spoke: Mr. Rollie Katz, Business Agent PEIU Local 1, told the Board the public needs earlier notification of proposed job cuts. The following was received via County e-mail: Mr. Dick Archer, Richmond resident wrote stating citizens in parts of West County were being charged erroneous taxes, measures and levies that do not properly apply to properties. THIS IS A MATTER FOR RECORD PURPOSES ONLY NO BOARD ACTION WAS TAKEN s , ��I, z_ Co►MMa^-t "Dick Archer" To: comments@ cob.cccounty.us r• <richard.archer@conic cc: ast.net> Subject: BOS Agenda Comments from Website 03/07/2008 06:43 AM Please respond to"Dick Archer" This message was sent from: http://www.co.contra-costa.ca.us/depart/cao/agendacomments_form.htm ------------------------------------------------------------ Name of sender: Dick Archer Address of sender: 468 Carlston Street Phone of sender: 510-232-5131 Email of sender: richard.archer@comcast.net Agenda Date: Agenda Iteml: Agenda Item2: D.1 ------------------------- COMMENTS ------ ------------------- It should be known, to the CCC Board of Supervisors, that there are some cities in Contra Costa County including E1 Cerrito, Richmond, and San Pablo, that have been charging some residents erroneous taxes, measures, amd levies for services not provided. This involves several homes that happen to be located where the town lines run through the property and the owners have two parcels numbers. One for Richmond and the other for E1 Cerrito. Both these cities have been charging these residents, in the case of Richmond, for sewer taxes, but these residents are not even hooked up to the Richmond sewer system. The staff at Richmond has been very helpful in acknowledging these errors and told me they are in the process of sending out full refunds. We shall see if they are good to their word. In El Cerrito, they are charging the same fine folks for Storm drain systems we are not connected to, El Cerrito Swim Center Measures but cannot use their Swim Center, Street Lighting, street sweeping, and tree trimming and Park service even thought we are not connected to the El Cerrito Street Light District, nor do they trim our trees, or sweep our streets. We get, and pay for all of those services from the City of Richmond. This is just the tip of the iceburg. I have tried to resolve these issues with all the different agencies involved. Some have acknowleged their errors and made corrections, at least to me, but others are double-duking many. This is incompetence at least, and may be deviant and illegal. This also include double taxes from AC Transit and the WCCHCD. I ask you the please have someone who is in charge to look into this, get the cities involved to quit lying, quit their back-pedaling, are remove these erroneous taxes and fully refund everyone involed their ! due refunds. I have been asking the City of El Cerrito about these taxes 4 times now in 9 years and it's time they tell the truth and figure out what the heck they are doing. Richmond and San Pablo too. Thank you, Dick Archer 468 Carlston Street Richmond, Ca 94805 510-232-5131 ------------------------------------------------------------