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Here's a roundup of everything we worked on this week, including a San Diego business transparency measure and Mello-Roos tax map. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mello-Roos
Eastlake homeowners pay millions in Mello-Roos school taxes but money goes elsewhere
Over the past three decades, the Sweetwater Union High School District has used at least $46 million in special taxes paid by property owners in the Eastlake neighborhood to fund projects in other parts of Chula Vista. Read More »
Help us crowdsource San Diego’s Mello-Roos tax districts
Help us request documents from the almost 30 government agencies with Mello-Roos taxes so we can shed light on how you’re taxed and how your money is spent. Read More »
What’s going on with Sweetwater school district’s iPads? 5 things you need to know
Back in 2012, the Sweetwater Union High School District decided to buy iPads for its students. Since then, it's bought 30,600 tablets. Read More »
inewsource behind the scenes: Mello-Roos and one gigantic map
Here's what it took for inewsource to pull together more than a million parcels and create a super-fast map allowing homeowners to search special taxes. Read More »
iPads for seventh graders at Sweetwater school district MIA
Five years after the Sweetwater Union High School District board spent $4.5 million to put iPads in the hands of seventh graders, nearly all of the Apple tablets are classified as out of inventory, lost or stolen. Read More »
Special property tax lacks robust oversight, accountability
San Diego County property owners have paid almost $1 billion since 2011 in Mello-Roos taxes, and not all are created equal. Read More »
Mello-Roos tax records: How we crunched the data
The Mello-Roos map is the culmination of months of data mining, cleaning and analysis that allows San Diego County residents can find the taxes they pay. Read More »
New York is lovely in October
Mapping the 52nd Congressional race, the return of whooping cough and two national Edward R. Murrow awards. Read More »
City auditor wants Mello-Roos tax bills checked for accuracy
The audit, prompted by an inewsource investigation last year, found problems with the way the city records square footage on building permits, ranging from typos to incomplete information. Read More »