L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti used his annual State of the City address Wednesday to make an extended sales pitch for Measure EE, a new tax for public schools that faces sharp opposition from the region’s business groups.
, which is on the June 4 ballot and would collect an estimated $500 million a year for the school district.
Garcetti touted the city’s work in developing a Green New Deal within L.A., saying no one will care about potholes if “Venice is underwater.” He also highlighted his recent decision to have the Department of Water and Power abandon plans for rebuilding three natural gas power plants. Although the city has scores of supportive housing projects with nearly 7,000 units in the pipeline, the city still has not yet opened a project funded with proceeds of Proposition HHH, which was passed in 2016 to help address homelessness. The first is expected to open later this year.Garcetti defined this year’s teachers’ strike as a latter-day incarnation of a struggle for justice and equity. And he noted that 28% of children in Los Angeles County live in poverty.
Minutes after the speech ended, Chip Ahlswede, chief executive of the Beverly Hills Greater Los Angeles Assn. of Realtors, issued a statement calling Measure EE “the wrong solution” to the school district’s woes.“Measure EE does not guarantee that funding goes toward children or into the classroom,” he said. “In fact, it’s more likely that our hard-earned tax dollars will be used to fund retiree pension debt and health costs, more bureaucrats and more consultants.
Backers of Measure EE say it would result in an additional $160 per year in taxes for the owner of a 1,000-square-foot house. Much of the parcel tax’s proceeds would be needed to plug a budget deficit rather than going entirely to such popular measures as shrinking the size of classes.For years, Garcetti mostly shied away from controversial stands on public schools, making a sharp break from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, his predecessor.
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