City of Inglewood to write-off $1.2 million in uncollectible debt
The Inglewood City Council will convene on Tuesday, August 18 to write off uncollectable debt, approve cleanup at Centinela Park, accept a donation from WOW Media and set a Public Hearing date for the consideration of approval of a Disposition and Development Agreement between Murphy’s Bowl LLC and the city.
The Inglewood Finance Department is requesting council’s approval to write-off accounts receivable and Gas Tax totaling $1.2 million. The debt was accumulated between 2010 and 2017. It is unclear if the debts were sent to a collection agency. The breakdown is as follows:
- Code Enforcement – $566,241.90
- Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) – $451,966.16
- False Alarms – $71,892.18
- Property Damage – $99,770.73
- Gas Tax Fund – $15,205.50
These uncollectible debts were identified in the state controller’s audit as needing to be addressed.
Related: Inglewood state audit 5/4/2020
The city will spend approx. $11,000 to clean up trash and debris from homeless encampments at Centinela Park.
The city will accept an art installation donation from WOW Media, which is located along La Cienega Blvd. between Florence Ave and Manchester Blvd.
Finally, the city will set a Public Hearing for September 3 at 2pm to consider a Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) between Murphy’s Bowl LLC and the city. The DDA will allow for the development of the 28 acre site for the proposed Clippers Arena. Unfortunately, the accompanying staff report is forged by someone purporting to be City Manager Artie Fields and most importantly the document is missing the sale price of the property.
That tacky astroturf Welcome to Inglewood is the “art wall”. No big surprise. Wow Entertainment has no taste. Just look at their nauseating seizure inducing advertisements they produce.
Ladies have you lost your mind ?
Why would the Taxpayers get paid for the public property?
Why would Ballmer pay the city for it?
The city (we) used airport mitigation dollars to buy the homes apartments using Airport “mitigation dollars” , Our neighbors were bought out or “relocated” elsewhere .
You must have not been wearing your secret decoder ring -part of the payment for the public land was carefully disguised as campaign contributions !
Come on now you didn’t think the “settlement agreement “ for the “Forum lawsuit” which included silencing the “mayor’s girlfriend’s memory issues “ was to cover the tiny Forum property did you ?
After dropping big bucks for that,,,,,wouldn’t it be embarrassing to reveal how little the residents are being paid for the property where Ballmer is planning to make significant dollars ?
So as the New Owners of the “art fence” (which is required so that freeway drivers will not be distracted by the digital billboard that WOW installed). . . how nice that Inglewood residents will be responsible for repair and maintenance of the artificial boxwood “art fence”.
Well at least the “art fence” project repair expense taken out of the city’s general fund will not be as great as the nearly one Billion we will be asked to tax ourselves (Property Owners will need to raise rents or sell to large developers)… for the 1.6 mile monorail/people mover the sports fans will be riding to see Clippers or Ram Games.
Kroenke and Ballmer have/will build their buildings adding profits to their bank accounts and we will pay for extra landscape maintenance, sewer enhancements fees, traffic code enforcement and greater medical bills as our air quality diminishes.
Gosh aren’t we lucky?
Hmmm……The billionaires like our community -or – rather how willing we are to elect those who are unwilling to protect residents… Over and over and over and. . . . . .
That tacky astroturf Welcome to Inglewood is the “art wall”. No big surprise. Wow Entertainment has no taste. Just look at their nauseating seizure inducing advertisements they produce.
If people who live in and do business in Inglewood would pay their bills the city would not have to write anything off.
PAY YO’ BILLS!!!
Inglewood is just like rotten Compton. Every time the hired incompetent personal beginning with the leadership, they continuously believe the poor working and retired people are responsible to bail them out.
I say to the mayor and so call powers that be; go take a long nap.
The people have had enough of your foolishness.
Even under former Mayor Roosevelt Dorn leadership he didn’t abuse the community to this extent!
Do not add any more projects to our property tax. Let those attending events pay for people movers or whatever is needed for their convenience. I am so tired of seeing new bond items on my property tax bill.