http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress VTA's broken sales tax Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:36:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Palo Alto Daily Post - October 30, 2008 E-mails refute BART tax claims Proponents of a one-eighth cent sales tax increase in Santa Clara County say it will cover all the costs of running BART to San Jose - but newly uncovered e-mails show BART officials disagree. Thousands of pages of emails between ... http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/palo-alto-daily-post-emails-refute-measure-b-claims/ Palo Alto Daily Post - Oct 28, 2008 http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/palo-alto-daily-post-vtas-divided-loyalties/ Palo Alto Daily Post - Oct 27, 2008 http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/palo-alto-daily-post-email-reveals-vtas-role/ http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=9810&e=y VTA officials deny campaign impropriety Authority accused of working too closely with Measure B supporters ...The transportation authority was accused of working too closely with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), which supports Measure B, by the campaign opposing the new tax. The "No on B" campaign filed a complaint with the ... http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/palo-alto-weekly-vta-officials-deny-campaign-impropriety/ By T. J. Rodgers Special to the Mercury News The Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is after our money again with another one-eighth cent sales tax to fund this year's version of BART-to-San Jose. It already collects two separate half-cent local sales taxes and another quarter-cent state sales tax that add up to ... http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/comment-measure-b-hurts-businesses/ We've heard this before. Measure B backers are suggesting that Measure B is the only additional tax needed to build the BART line to Fremont. If it is so, where are the new cost estimates to build the line? Instead, VTA is doing all it can to hide crucial information, ... http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/measure-b-more-broken-promises/ "In my over three decades in the governmental surface transportation industry, with direct experience with well over 100 transit operators, MPO’s, state DOT’s, and other organizations, and knowledge of virtually every significant transit agency in the U.S., I have never encountered any transit agency that has consistently taken so much ... http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/vta-worst-transit-agency-in-the-country/ Click here for the full Q&A with retiring chief County Executive Pete Kutras by Scott Herhold of San Jose Mercury News Q. I want to talk a little about VTA and BART, which is not directly your portfolio, but certainly affects the county. When this first came up in 2000, Mayor ... http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/county-executive-pete-kutras-on-measure-b/ 1. Who would build the BART project? VTA, the same agency that already collects three different sales taxes. It is the same agency that built and operates the light rail system, which is the worst-performing light rail in the US. 2. Who would operate/maintain the BART project? VTA would pay the BART District ... http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/facts-about-measure-b/ Hear the debate here: http://scvtaru.podbean.com/ http://www.novtatax.org/wordpress/2008/10/podcast-october-23-measure-b-debate/