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Sales-tax consultant: post-pandemic surge fading; Measure X revenues flattening
Summary
HDL's sales-tax consultant told the Measure X oversight committee that statewide and local sales-tax growth has flattened after post-pandemic gains and that Measure X receipts for Santa Ana fell in FY 2023–24.
Santa Ana's newly contracted sales-tax consultant, HDL, told the Measure X Citizen Oversight Committee that statewide trends contributing to Measure X receipts are "relatively flat" after the post-pandemic spending surge and that local Measure X revenue fell in the last fiscal year.
"Your greater, your bigger takeaways are 1, it's relatively flat," said Bobby Young of HDL during a data-driven presentation on consumer and sector trends that drive local sales-tax collections. Young walked the committee through statewide…
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