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A New Day of Community Service |
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Steve Hallam, City Manager, City of Oakdale |
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| Our guest was Oakdale City Manager, Steve Hallam. Steve's
program was very informative saying this was an interesting and a
challenging time for the City of Oakdale. We have ventured deeply into
the "regional thinking mode" and the idea that Oakdale can be
insulated from other issues and problems facing other cities simply is
unrealistic. There is much more industrial growth in our future, with
more need for retail stores on the west side. Our City does not show a
"leakage" in grocery sales, so it may be awhile before another
grocery outlet is built. New growth will have to pay its way through
revenue producing Community Facilities Districts to over the costs of
fire and police services. Steve said that losing Hershey's is not
expected to be a significant "direct" impact on the City
budget because the plant generated no "business to business"
sales tax and only contributed $138,000 a year in property taxes. He
also said that Oakdale was the highest per capita sales tax revenue
producer in the County. He did note that for third quarter of this past
fiscal year Oakdale's sales tax had slipped almost 5 percent, while
Riverbank's sales tax has increased more than 25%, reflecting the shift
of purchasing to the Crossroads Shopping Center. Other facts he shared:
Our population is now 18,600; 75% of our $8.8 million discretionary
funds (tax dollars) go to police and fire costs; and, our sales tax
revenue was the highest contributor at $2.6 million. For the future:
We'll keep our own police force,build environmentally friendly homes,
and, yes, annex property into the City before the County does something
that just might......well....make things tougher. Interesting program
with many more to come.
Speaker report courtesy Mike Tozzi
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| For more information on the City of Oakdale, and Steve's work, go to: http://www.ci.oakdale.ca.us/ | Back to past Speakers page |
