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Dooley's Trash District Plans Draws Bi-Partisan Opposition

  ST LOUIS POST DISPATCH - Present Democratic state representatives and a former one from the unincorporated area of south St. Louis County have joined the opposition to trash collection districts in the unincorporated area. Read more

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Democrat MO Auditor Slams Metro for $136 million overun

  State Auditor Susan Montee addresses members of the media and other interested parties after completing an audit of Metro. Most of what Montee addressed dealt with the Cross County Extension Project,which has placed financial Read more

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St. Louis County Executive trying to bully Police Chief out of office

By Paul Hampel and Patrick M. O'Connell ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 01/16/2009CLAYTON — St. Louis County Executive Charlie A. Dooley is seeking to oust county Police Chief Jerry Lee, Read more

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Housing values plummet, but not tax assesments.

CLAYTON — Homeowners in St. Louis County who believe the value of their property has declined along with some of the market here should not expect any assessment reductions until 2009. Reassessment is done every two years, Read more

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Will Dooley help struggling homeowners with lower tax assesments in 09?

Nancy Ellis, of Kirkwood, says, “I think retirees like me were hoping that the silver lining in the slumping economy would be a break in our property taxes.” (Dawn Majors/P-D)   If you're thinking that your property tax Read more

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Dooley's failure causes sewer bills to skyrocket.

By Paul HampelST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH06/04/2008CLAYTON — Along with soaring prices for fuel and food, St. Louisans can expect down the road to face another major drain on their finances: skyrocketing sewer bills. Read more

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Dooley Supports ANOTHER county tax increase proposal

MIKE ANTHONYiCall  December 12, 2007 - A citizens' committee is being formed to oppose a proposed half-cent sales-tax increase placed on the Feb. 5 ballot by the County Council to expand MetroLink and provide maintenance Read more

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Another Charlie Dooley Tax Increase PDF Print E-mail

By Paul Hampel
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
03/15/2009

CLAYTON — When many St. Louis County homeowners learned last week that their property assessments — a key factor in determining property taxes — had dropped, owners of commercial property got sobering news.

Commercial values, and taxes, are headed higher, according to the county. It reported a median rise of 8.3 percent in the values of the county's 13,500 commercial properties.

That change, between 2007 and this year, is almost the opposite of the 9 percent drop in median values of residential properties.

Business owners across the county were shocked, and many angered, to see big jumps in their values. They wondered how that could happen in a down economy — and in a year when the county's residential values dropped so much.


 


 

Issues Facing St. Louis County

A Decline in Quality of Life

 

  • PROPERTY TAXES
Dooley's never ending property tax INCREASES are hurting thousands of county homeowners, especially those citizens on fixed incomes.

 

  • BIGGER GOVERNMENT
$75 Million spending INCREASE in the county budget since Dooley took office

 

  • VITAL SERVICES BEING CUT
The $130 Million COST OVERRUN with Metrolink forced a massive reduction in bus service

 

  • CRIME ON THE RISE
Parts of St. Louis County are experiencing major crime problems and neighborhoods are falling apart

 

  • JOB LOSS
Even before the downturn in the economy, St. Louis County has been hemorrhaging jobs for years


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Waste/Fraud/Abuse

 

  • END PAY-TO-PLAY at the county level
Dooley has been accepting money from developers and others that do business with the county leaving the "little-guy" to fend for themselves

 

  • FULL TOP TO BOTTOM COUNTY AUDIT

An independent audit firm should be hired to root out waste in county government


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