Among the many agenda items to be considered at tomorrow’s (October 24, 2023) 10 o’clock county supervisor meeting in San Bernardino, the board will once again have an opportunity to repeal the unpopular Fire Protection District 5 special tax or hand that decision over to voters.
Thanks to a grassroots signature-collecting effort recently certified as valid by the registrar of voters county supervisors must now choose the path forward from among a limited number of options.
Specifically, they can choose to repeal the annual tax which comes to $172 per parcel, or they can send it to voters in the 19,000-square-mile FP-5 district. Since implementation of the special tax in 2018 it has been widely criticized for the deceptive process used to attach it to property taxes. Faced with the same decision in 2020, county supervisors opted to let voters decide. And despite overwhelming voter support for repeal of the tax, that ballot measure was later ruled invalid in County Superior Court.
Follow this link: https://cob.sbcounty.gov/ for the complete agenda and options for viewing or participating in tomorrow’s meeting.
