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Tag Archives: Mello-Roos
The Weekender for August 4, 2018
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 »
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 »