Moments before submitting signatures to the city clerk, advocates for a sales tax to benefit parks were one short of a nice round number. In order to achieve it, they even asked a cameraman covering the occasion if he was a registered Fresno voter. Absent that, Fresno for Parks turned...
Parks & Public Safety Advocates Work Behind Scenes on Sales Tax
In what one City Hall insider described as a game of chicken, two sides advancing sales tax plans are attempting to work out a deal. Multiple sources tell GV Wire that Fresno for Parks, the Ashley Swearengin-led group advocating for a 3/8ths of a cent sales tax plan, has met...
Finding No Support, Brand Drops Public Safety-Parks Tax Plan
Fresno Mayor Lee Brand withdrew his plan Thursday morning to place in front of voters a sales tax measure equally benefiting public safety and parks. The plan, announced Monday, called for raising the sales tax by a half-percent. Brand needed a super-majority, or five of the seven council members, to...
Fresno Mayor Brand Endorses Public Safety Tax Ahead of Parks Tax
UPDATE: 5:32 p.m., Thursday, April 5 Fresno Mayor Lee Brand put his shoulder squarely behind a proposed sales-tax increase for public safety today in a statement emailed to GV Wire. "While the City of Fresno has many challenges, including parks and green space, my job as your Mayor is to...