HomeMy WebLinkAbout9/24/2008 - STAFF REPORTS - 00 (2) Ednor's note:Thu letter originally
published'on Dec. 29 '(`A great
.bzinch'D,.but dw to numerical in-
accuracies Ttu being p ' again..
Lase andY 41 f
Greed factor at work
Regaxdi7ng•'the Dec. 27 Our, 1
Voice letter,'"Top philanthropists
make valley better place for us
all".Walter Annenberg gets my
yore,hands down.'Thenihereis
RichardMilmovic-h andtheAgua
'Cali:me tribal.membcn.
I feel that I .and my 53 other
homeowners are dcservingofphi-
Ianthropy creft:,OuTleas'edland
forces us'To donate usingthe '
word loosely'=from mid-$200's
a-tzhanth io as high as'$825 a
month to.the owners of our leased
land. .
0 homes inPSL-154 are Tery
modcsrand sclhng,ifthey can,for
low dollus because-we are on
leased laud.Our zem went fro,irt a
low$35'a montfi.to$498 shordy
after we moved here in Ociober
;2002,11aving been told by .the
131A, the tribe, previous owners,
escrow company and the reahor
&ar we could expect a fair in-
crease to maybe"E85 a month.
Pori enough,most cereainly.
Ali,taafiwas nol fair.as you can
see, so we are philanrhropisis.as
well,but we had,xio choice"We
.. are-"buying shoes for school"Inds
.and fire trucks.for the town but
getno credit or•tax reduction"We
pay property tax for land we do
not own.
Many of us"now have to dccidc
whftherto buy prescupuon drugs
this month or pay rhe.lease'rent.
So Joe Granado is very correct in .'
that lease land be rescinded or'at
leastregulated for faimess("Take
anger to the ballot;" Dec. 27)_ l
SnP Y�, 6 There is a greed factor here That
,needs addressing- -
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