Hey Folks,
The Port of Coos Bay, the city of Coos Bay and North Bend, and the County Board of Commissioners, have to pass a resolution before the Jordan Cove Energy Project can receive the 20-year property tax exemption from the Bay Area Enterprise Zone. Most businesses cannot take advantage of EZ tax breaks and neither can the average citizen, which makes it an unfair tax exemption that benefits large corporations. The vote on these resolutions is not supposed to take place for a few more months.
In the meantime, the City Manager for the City of Coos Bay is refusing to release a report from the city’s attorney containing his legal opinion of the bylaws regulating the South Coast Community Foundation. The designers of the Community Enhancement Plan have promised transparency, but already the members involved with this taxing fraud are hiding documents from public scrutiny. If the Mayor and City Councilors of Coos Bay expect to garner the trust of the people then they should demand that the City Manager, Rodger Craddock, release the attorney’s report. You may want to ask them why they would deny the public the information needed to make an objective opinion on the CEP in the first place. Following the contact info for the Coos Bay councilors there are some of the documents to show the paper trail of the manager's refusal to release this important document. It is some very interesting reading the exchange between the County DA and the City Manager…..Rob T.
The Port of Coos Bay, the city of Coos Bay and North Bend, and the County Board of Commissioners, have to pass a resolution before the Jordan Cove Energy Project can receive the 20-year property tax exemption from the Bay Area Enterprise Zone. Most businesses cannot take advantage of EZ tax breaks and neither can the average citizen, which makes it an unfair tax exemption that benefits large corporations. The vote on these resolutions is not supposed to take place for a few more months.
In the meantime, the City Manager for the City of Coos Bay is refusing to release a report from the city’s attorney containing his legal opinion of the bylaws regulating the South Coast Community Foundation. The designers of the Community Enhancement Plan have promised transparency, but already the members involved with this taxing fraud are hiding documents from public scrutiny. If the Mayor and City Councilors of Coos Bay expect to garner the trust of the people then they should demand that the City Manager, Rodger Craddock, release the attorney’s report. You may want to ask them why they would deny the public the information needed to make an objective opinion on the CEP in the first place. Following the contact info for the Coos Bay councilors there are some of the documents to show the paper trail of the manager's refusal to release this important document. It is some very interesting reading the exchange between the County DA and the City Manager…..Rob T.
| Mayor Crystal Shoji shoji@uci.net City Manager Rodger Craddock rcraddock@coosbay.org Councilor Mark Daily markdailycb@hotmail.com Councilor Jennifer S. Groth sjgroth@charter.net | Councilor Stephanie Kramer skramer@coosbay.org Councilor Thomas Leahy tleahy@coosbay.org Councilor Brian Bowers bbowers@coosbay.org Councilor Mike Vaughan dsgnlnd@frontier.com |
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