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Redlands council directs staff to study paramedic tax, business-license changes for possible revenue measure
Summary
Councilmember Carlos Tejeda urged study of a paramedic parcel assessment, business-license adjustments for fulfillment centers and a possible parcel tax; council directed staff to return with internal calculations on the paramedic assessment by the next meeting.
Redlands City Council on Sept. 16 directed staff to produce detailed cost and revenue calculations for the city's paramedic parcel assessment and to research possible adjustments to business-license taxation for fulfillment and logistics centers as part of exploring a potential revenue measure for the November ballot.
Council Member Carlos Tejeda told colleagues the paramedic assessment, last adopted in 1982, has not kept pace with population growth and service costs. "One of those has always been the paramedic, the paramedic tax," Tejeda said, arguing the levy now contributes only a portion of the cost of paramedic services.
The request to study options was broader: Tejeda also asked staff to review a business‑license tax escalator for large fulfillment…
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