County budget

[Seeb]

So, the county is already planning on getting $846,000 in vacation rental fines and fees for next years budget to pay for 7 new planning people to enforce the vacation rental law. Before the rules set or one ticket issued- sounds like the whole Due Process is out the window they are just going to start sending out bills

[kalakoa]

$846,000 in vacation rental fines and fees

Isn't it amazing how specific they can be when it suits them?

Try this one: $846000/7 = $120857/year (average; obviously the supervisor will be paid more, and the staff less, so that each can use the other as justification for future raises).

Hawaii Playbook: institute a new program which requires users to register and pay a fee. The fees collected will be used to hire staff to oversee the program and ensure that all users have registered and paid their fees. Revocable certificates are then issued which grant the user permission to do what they were already doing in the first place before the program was created.

[kalakoa]

This one got my attention:

The $573.5 million budget proposed Friday by Kim is $55.5 million, or 10.7 percent, higher than this year, and won't raise property taxes. But it relies on increased property values and an assortment of other taxes and fees.

How did they know property values were going to increase?

[Seeb]

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Originally posted by kalakoa

How did they know property values were going to increase?

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Because Harry said so

But actually the market value of those not transferable vacation rentals or anything that could be one just got cut in half - that was the stated point of the VR law to make housing affordable

[Obie]

700 homes went up in smoke last year.Many of those were multi-million dollar estates.
Many of those people that owned on the high end will not return.

[riversnout]

With this app, the county can watch the $846,000 trickle in.

https://www.prweb.com/releases/hawaii_co...203719.htm

[terracore]

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Originally posted by Obie

700 homes went up in smoke last year.Many of those were multi-million dollar estates.
Many of those people that owned on the high end will not return.

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I got my post-eruption property tax bills. They took a page from Elon Musk's book:

"Funding secured".