Dear Friend,
Residents for Reform was started for a simple reason – our local government has become too expensive.
Over the past decade we have sat back while well-intentioned politicians have encumbered 87,000 residents with over $571 million in long-term debt
The city’s budget documents show in 2003 total revenues from all sources was $110 million. According to Councilman Tony Petros this year’s budget is $280 million — a 159% increase in 13 years.
Just because Newport Beach is a wealthy community doesn’t mean city government has to gouge, overcharge, and over-tax.
We believe our city is profiting off taxpayers, hence its surplus of $90 million – more than the total budgets of many Orange County cities.
Residents have been quiet for too long. It’s time for a change.
Sincerely,
Bob McCaffrey
Volunteer Chairman
RESIDENTS FOR REFORM – OUR GOALS
Our mission is to return fiscal responsibility to City Hall. They are good people that have lost their way. In the past decade the city council has incurred over $571 million in long-term debt for a city of just 87,000. In ten years our politicians have burdened taxpayers with more debt than the first 90 years of the city’s existence. It’s time for a change.
It only took Rush Hill less than one year on the city council to be warned by the Fair Political Practices Commission over voting to financially benefit himself. (Click image to view)
“Your above-described behavior amounted to a conflict of interest… “
Fair Political Practices Commission letter to Rush Hill
April 3, 2014
Mayor Rush Hill’s idea of concensus.
$22,000 a day for the thirty years will pay off the Taj Mahal’s debt of $228 million. You can read the official debt repayment schedule here.
