{"id":237,"date":"2015-04-20T00:20:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T00:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/?p=237"},"modified":"2015-04-20T17:36:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T17:36:57","slug":"selling-city-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"The Selling of the City in 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an article from our October-November 2005 newsletter which discusses how our present mayor and the Council sold the City to UC. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered why Berkeleyans pay such high City taxes, a good part of the reason is because UC doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/newsletter%20archive\/CNA%20Newsletter%20article%20Sept-Oct%202005.pdf\">2005 Newsletter Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The article refers to the Settlement with UC.\u00a0This is the 2005 Settlement of the lawsuit by the City against the Environmental Impact Report for UC&#8217;s Long Range Development Plan (2020 LRDP):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cob-uc-2020-lrdp-settlement.pdf\">City-UC LRDP Settlement<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You&#8217;ll see that UC agreed to pay $1.2 million a year\u00a0for the City services it used, with an escalation factor. Of this, $200,000 was for community projects, to be decided by UC! We&#8217;re not sure how much of this money has been\u00a0spent, but do know that UC has selected some projects that benefit it, such as improving the recycling services it uses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A little earlier, the City had commissioned an independent study that showed that UC used $13.5 million in services (see Table 2b).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/study-of-ucs-cost-to-cob-council-meeting-2004-06-15-Item-25b.pdf\">UC&#8217;s Cost to the City<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This amount must have grown at more than the rate of inflation, because a) At the time, UC had nearly\u00a032,000 students. It now has nearly 38,000, together with increased faculty and staff, and b) UC has been heavily investing in Berkeley property, and removing it from the tax rolls. All this has been described in more detail\u00a0in our recent newsletters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In short, the Settlement was very one-sided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an article from our October-November 2005 newsletter which discusses how our present mayor and the Council sold the City to UC. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered why Berkeleyans pay such high City taxes, a good part of the reason is because UC doesn&#8217;t. 2005 Newsletter Article The article refers to the Settlement with UC.\u00a0This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}