The extension of a sales tax that has been credited with keeping Westminster financially afloat moved forward after residents chided city officials for years of indecision.
On Friday, four of five City Council members agreed to place a measure on the November ballot asking voters to renew the 1% sales tax for the next 20 years.
Those cuts would likely result in closed parks, unpaved streets and the elimination of youth and senior programs, as well as staff layoffs, including a 33% reduction to the police force in a city that has been running on thin staffing for years, said City Manager Christine Cordon.In Westminster, home to Little Saigon, the election of a majority-Vietnamese council in 2008 was a milestone. The bickering started almost immediately and hasn’t stopped since.
Earlier in the week, the tax seemed doomed, with four votes needed to put it on the ballot and only Manzo and Ho in favor. In Westminster, a city of more than 90,000 that is home to Little Saigon, the election of a majority-Vietnamese council more than a decade ago was a proud milestone.Huge political victory for O.C. Vietnamese Americans is threatened by ugly infighting
During roughly four hours of public comment over the course of the two meetings this week, dozens of residents spoke in favor of extending the tax measure. The city’s precarious finances are not entirely the fault of the current council. Proposition 13, passed by California voters in 1978, locked Westminster into lower-than-average property tax returns. The groundwork for the financial problems was also laid decades ago as a result of an overreliance on state redevelopment funds.
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