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Dannielle Mauk, Community Services Director
SUBJECT:
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"Measure A" Parks Tax Allocation - FY 2022/2023
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RECOMMENDATION
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That Council receive a report on options for the 2022/23 Work Plan for the Town's allotment of Measure A funds. Staff recommends that the Town Council allocate 70% towards the Memorial Park Improvement Project and 30% towards the San Anselmo Open Space Fund. Based on the 2022/23 estimates provided by the County of Marin ($44,186), this would represent $30,930 for the Memorial Park Fund and $13,256 for the Open Space Fund.
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BACKGROUND
On November 6, 2012, Marin County voters approved the Marin Parks, Open Space, and Farmland Preservation Transactions and Use Tax Ordinance ("MEASURE A"). MEASURE A levies a one-quarter percent transaction and use tax in Marin County and is estimated to generate approximately $10,000,000 per year for the ten-year term of the measure.
You will notice the amount to be received July 1,2022 and January 1,2023 is significantly lower than normal. That is because the tax expired at the end of March 2022, voters will decide whether to renew it June 7, 2022, and revenues would not begin to be collected again until October 1, 2022. We anticipate we will receive the amount in the attachment in July (about 5 months of revenue), receive little or nothing in January 2022, and then (only if voters renew the tax) receive a payment again in July 2023.
DISCUSSION
2013/14 Allocation
In November of 2013, the Town Council voted to allocate 100% of the 2013/14 Measure A funds allotted to San Anselmo, which was estimated to be in the amount of $35,897, towards the purchase of the Sky Ranch property in Fairfax and San Anselmo to be used as open space lands. The 2013/14 Measure A funds ended up exceeding the County's estimates by $12,175, for a total of $ 48,072. These additional funds were deposited into the Town's Measure A account for a future designation.
At that time, Council directe...
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