Some charitable and other nonprofit organizations could be denied local tax-exempt status under a proposed policy change that is expected to come to the City Council this fall.
City Manager Selena Cuffee-Glenn plans to ask the council to revisit its policy for exempting such groups from real estate and personal property taxes, Deputy City Manager Patrick Roberts said. The exemptions cost the city more than $1.4 million a year.
"It has become increasingly important for all city organizations to cover their fair share of government service costs to the community, given the economic pressures that have confronted the city in recent years," Cuffee-Glenn wrote council members in a recent letter.
Would this include the SCCA?
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Rather than cut spending Selena Cuffee-Glenn(aka Linda Johnson) want to increase taxes. At a time when the nation is going one direction Suffolk goes the other way.
The latest example of pork is the arrival of blue recycling bins in downtown with the emblems of TFC and City of Suffolk. This waste of taxpayer dollars however can be salvaged by adaptive reuse. They make great shopping carts between Walmart and Section 8 housing neighborhoods. They hold a weeks load of laundry as a hamper and easily roll to the nearest sack of suds. In hot weather they can be used as a tub to cool off, a shower stall, sink and rain water catch basin. Use them in a pinch for a leaky roof or slice them into strips to patch the roof. For the kiddies the lids unbolt and make great sleds on grass or snow. Pop off the wheels and use them for just about anything needing wheels.
This policy does need a revisit.
Just after the budget hearing our little girl in the budget office discovered a four million dollar surplus this year and several million the previous years. All to be given away to city employees. But that's not enough now they want to take out the SCCA and other non-profits. Instead of saving our city's ratings and move in to the SCCA as the new city hall, council wants to build another multi-million dollar monumnet to their egoes. Wonder what S&P will say about that. Perhaps Davenport's Rose could play the part of the Treasury Secretary about the risk of a downgrade for the city.
The SCCA restaurant and gift shop would not qualify for tax exenption out of fairness to competitors and also to keep in compliance with the 501(c)(3) tax status that's necessary to preserve deductibility of other "donations" (if many remain) and annueal "dues."
This may be true also of the train station's gift shop area.
The charity that the voters have shown to the seating city council members needs to be revoked too! Selena is the hand-puppet of Linda " I want to spend your MOENY" Johnson and that discribes most of our problems. If we do not runn off Linda and her crew of misfit trolls in the next election, Suffolk may not survive. It may crumble and be annexed by Portsmouth where thay have better schools and government.
I havent spewed any liquid thru my nose in years Thrifty. ROFLMAO
In Salena's thinking and world,someday we all will appreciate her beauty and her brilliance…
I too agree that Ms Glen is perhaps the worst City Manager of our times. I know that the council likes it their way and Ms Glen will do whatever she is told to do, but things have got to change. This person is truely ruining our fine city and demoralizing our citizens.
I worked on several projects with Mr Standish and city staff in the past and he and they were always concerned with the best for the people, but Ms Glen seems to lack that basic understanding of public service. She blindly runs in whatever direction that council mutters and spews commands that defile the public good. Since she is the highest paid City Manager ever in Suffolk, you would think we would get better, but we do not by a wide margin.
Ms Glen has been there for her alloted time, and I believe strongly that it is her time to now go. I also agree with the comment above that the people need to show many on council the door, too. If the voters do not take strong action at the polls during their next opportunity, our beloved Suffolk is doomed to decline, furhter and that is the shame we all will carry.
If you want to effect change someone better get into the polling stations because counting votes seems to be a consistent problem. When was the last time the personnel, registration process, verification and method of counting votes reviewed? NEVER and that's why Linda Johnson & friends will be re-elected.
Quite true that running the polls is always the way to win, just llok at how the Chicago crowd do so well, voting the dead three times each election. Sounds like it is done in Suffolk by the Johnson Machine.
Excoreate the createns.
Has there ever been a City Manager that the citizens of Suffolk adored?
The Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts has brought many educational programs for young and old to our city. The people who lambaste its merits are the same ones who have never seen our tax supported library either.
If you want to talk about needless waste, how about talking about the people that comment crime and the tax supported jobs that we pay for because of it.
We are stuck with paying for criminals in our jails, we just do not want to pay for the criminals in City Hall!
The "criminals" in city hall are productive citizens that are paid to do a job. Not all agree with the job they are doing, but who can please everyone? These people also pay taxes and spend their money locally.
The "criminals" in jail, I'm stuck to say how they contribute to society. Maybe 7:24 P.M. has had experience and can help me out.
Productive by what measure, surely not with the government we get that will spend every dime they can extort from the citzens. They do have time though to draw a fancy one-sided map though. If you plan to defend the creatons in city hall you will need more than a claim that they carry their weight by paying taxes. They demand more than they ever pay or provide to the people of suffolk, Kind-a-like a carebunkel on the backside. Ever growing, hard to get ahold of and always a pain.
So Salena with the stoke of her crayon issues a curfew? WTF. Can anyone advise of the last time, we had a curfew?
Why wasnt the SCCA included in the list of shelters?
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