Will Palm Harbor Become a City?
March 30, 2008 by admin
Filed under Palm Harbor News
UPDATE – 11/08/2008
Palm Harbor Incorporation News has its own page - visit it here-
Will Palm Harbor Become a City?
In case you are not aware, there is a push to turn Palm Harbor into a City. We are now one step closer to is and for more information visit the Palm Harbor Coalition’s website. The two questions I would raise would be, how can taxes not go up when we add another layer of government and what the benefit really be? Would we, as residents benefit, or is it only benefiting the people that have time to push the bill.
Palm Harbor – The Greater Palm Harbor Community Coalition submitted the Final Feasibility Report & Town Charter in the form of a local bill to the Pinellas County Legislative Delegation on December 10, 2007. The bill is sponsored by State Representative Peter Nehr and co-sponsored by State Representative Tom Anderson. The Feasibility Study and Town Charter was also submitted to the Pinellas County Commission the same week.
The public may view the Final Feasibility Study and Town Charter on the website www.palmharborcoalition.org. The website features a discussion forum and guest book for interested citizens. “We want to provide an easy forum in this high tech world that would allow for the most amount of discussion on the subject of incorporation so that we can all make an educated decision,” states Lesley Klein whose business, Oak Trail Books, is sponsoring the site.
Municipal Incorporation is the ultimate protection from annexation and guarantees that your tax dollars come back to you and your community. Palm Harbor could double its revenues with little or no increase in expenses. How is that possible? Because we do not have a locally elected government, the county our default government receives on our behalf millions in population based tax revenues and diverts most of the $$$ to the countywide budget.