SALIDA CSA 10 TAX INCREASE

If you live in Salida and have Mello Roos taxes on your bill, you need to read this. Not only is the board that governs your Mello Roos bond looking to refinance, but Stanislaus County also wants to raise your CSA taxes! CSA is the acronym for "Community Service Assessment" and Salida has two CSA districts: CSA 4 which applies to the Amberwood neighborhood (Finney and Bacon area) and CSA 10 which applies to all the homes built since 1990 (i.e. Gold Valley, Murphy's Ferry) and ALL neighborhoods on the east side of 99 with the exception of Clarendon Woods and Morgan Glen Estates (the homes off Kiernan and Sisk up to Wallasey Way). Mello Roos applies to approximately 2,800 homes in Salida. 

The CSA 10 taxes (and it is a tax, but "assessment" sounds more PC to the County) is a tax you will ALWAYS have to pay. It does not end in 2030 like the Mello Roos does (or is supposed to if the board does not mess with it again.) 

Stanislaus County wants to increase your CSA 10 tax primarily because they nearly wiped it out when they used it to replace the trees and sidewalks on Pirrone. Whomever put the trees in front of the developments on Pirrone did not put in root boxes to train the roots to grow down and they lifted the sidewalks. So they want ALL of the CSA taxpayers to pay for that and raise your taxes. 

Fresno xeriscaping

Currently, the CSA assessment primarily goes to pay the County to do the landscaping around the developments, and maintaining every park in Salida except for Salida Park. Why should you pay more for the County to mow the grass around the neighborhoods when they could install xeriscaping that's drought tolerant and does not create green waste from having to be mowed? It's not like children play on the grass; it mostly gets used by dogs to relieve themselves. The City of Fresno used a grant to install xeriscaping on some of their landscaped center islands. Stanislaus County should do the same for Salida.

Again, have a say in the matter of your taxes and what they are used on. Look at the County's PowerPoint they shared at the October Salida Municipal Advisory Council meeting. They put a flashing sign on Sisk Road to notify people of the meeting, but I thought I'd do this post to let people know because really now, who actually knows what "CSA 10" means when they see that sign? And God forbid they spend any money to send you notices - geez!



Attend the upcoming meetings at the Salida Library Community Room to have a say before this tax gets increased on you.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 7 pm for a special CSA 10 presentation
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 7 pm at the Salida MAC meeting
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 7 pm (last chance to give input at Salida MAC)