Archive for July 30, 2008
Eh! We Will! No, We Won’t — Well, We Might?
By Chuck Ring
We reported that Santa Fe County had voted to shed themselves of the rest of the North Central Transit District and opt to join with their buddies in Santa Fe City to create their very own transit district. Our report can be accessed at this location
But, it seems the shedding was more like a temporary shearing according to a report from today’s Free New Mexican to be found here:
County Reconsiders Transit District
This potential action does not bode well for the Edgewood Community, just as the other direction contemplated by the two Santa Fes was a boondoggle for us. We will, if past history is any indication, see Santa Fe County place the proposed tax on the ballot for a county wide referendum and we will pay again for a project over which we have no control. Although our commissioner, Mike Anaya, has worked to assist us in the past he is now on the side of the transit tax and in spite of his efforts in the past on other issues, we see little to encourage us for the future as to a transit tax that will benefit Edgewood.
As reported previously, we have contributed over $900,000 through the 1/4 cent gross receipts tax supposedly for county wide water and wastewater projects and we have yet to see a return for that investment. Additionally, we do not have a seat at the table to govern how the money is expended, while Santa Fe City and Santa Fe County has four councilors and four commissioners respectively sitting on the board that governs the expenditure of the 1/4 cent tax. There are of course other county wide gross receipts taxes paid by Edgewood and as Edgewood prospers, its contribution will grow exponentially.
Whatever, the two Santa Fes may do, whether shedding or shearing … Edgewood will surely get a skinning and a shellacking.