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Resident urges Mesa council to open budget process and review Eastmark CFD ongoing taxes
Summary
A District 6 resident told the council Feb. 24 he wants more opportunity for public input in Mesa’s budget process and raised concerns about perpetual Community Facility District (CFD) taxes in Eastmark and other localized charges.
David Winstanley, a District 6 resident, used the public-comment portion of the Feb. 24 Mesa City Council meeting to ask council members to review the city’s budget process and to examine continuing special taxes tied to Community Facility Districts (CFDs) in Eastmark.
Winstanley said he supports an “open and honest discussion of the necessity of function and the costs of city government” and asked the council to consider procedural changes to allow public input to have an appearance of…
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