Fiscal planning

Submitted a written email comment on item 9A regarding the fiscal planning presentation; content referenced in the binder.

The city manager emphasized the $4 million annual infrastructure shortfall, noted the museum building itself needs repair, and said the sales tax is only one piece of a multi-year plan.

Said Pacific Grove has a spending problem and has never lived within its means; questioned the claimed $70,000 credit card fee savings, criticized a $63,000 special election for council salary raises, and said she can't afford to live here anymore.

The same resident returned to ask whether a potential sales tax measure would have to go before the voters; staff confirmed it would.

She described how Prop 13 saved her senior-owned home but Prop 19 now prevents her son from inheriting it fully, and warned that the sales tax revenue could end up funding a costly special election for expanding the city council rather than advertised priorities.