Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. is still recovering from a heart attack but will take time to address the public in an industry forum to push taxing Inglewood homeowners to build the transit connector project. The transit connector is being hailed as a “solution” to traffic issues directly associated with the project. The connector will ferry attendees to the Forum, SoFi Stadium and the Clippers arena and residents should demand that billionaires Steve Ballmer, Stan Kroenke and Dean Spanos pay for the transit connector since it will be primarily for the use of their assets.
“There will be no public dollars, no taxpayer dollars used for this project,” said Chris Meaney, senior Vice-President of Hollywood Park. Meaney contributes thousands of dollars to Inglewood elected officials, including the newly elected city clerk.
The city began the process last summer when council unanimously approved an application be submitted to the Los Angeles County Formation Commission to create a special district, with taxing authority on property owners, to fund the transit connector.
The city anticipated holding a special election this month, however, those plans have been pushed back.
The “industry forum” will feature Mayor Butts, Sen. Steve Bradford, Asm. Autumn Burke and Metro CEO Phil Washington. Chris Robert, has been tapped as the moderator. Robert was featured in the Los Angeles Times when she sold her parents home, to Mayor Butts, for less than market value and a slew of code violations on the property.
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“The Mayor and the City Council dont want to be embarrassed if this gets put on the ballot. So they are surveying Homeowners ahead of time,” said Gon Cisco, Inglewood residents. “Vote No for more Taxes. Property Taxes already have their pensions on the tax bill.”
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The Mayor of Hollywood Park is proud of saying “the only thing that has changed in Inglewood is everything “ what that means to residents is that while the prior mayors understood their responsibility was to the people of the community, James Butts appears to believe the people of Inglewood should never be considered because his responsibility is to the Billionaires that bought his election for him ! (And through the campaign loans likewise purchased the other for council members )
Has anyone noticed the City website – the photos are mostly of Sports Teams, their Logos and the Space Shuttle !!! Surprise those player owners are not residents- their children are not in our schools, we won’t run into their wives at the grocery store.
Yes those he throws crumbs to have spoken in favor of the plans he has to turn us into CHAVEZ RAVINE II, but how is it our services are limited and except for the ladies – (correction females) – willing to please him, and the executive managers the worker bee staff don’t know how secure their employment is!!
Let’s make sure the billionaires pay for their customers to get to their facility.
THIS EXPENSE SHOULD NOT COME OUT OF OUR POCKETS!!!!
It’s time for Mayor Butts to go! He obviously doesn’t have the hard working Inglewood tax payers at heart! His heart is with multi billionaires who could afford this project, a project that will billionaire owners!