Beaumont City Council Approved Illegally Overcharging $7.5 Million in Mello Roos Taxes. Now Produce the Records
For years the City of Beaumont has illegally overcharged Mello Roos Special Taxes to Property Owners living in the Development Areas.
The Beaumont City Councilmen were told by the Citizens that it was illegal to make millions in profit from taxes, so the Beaumont Councilmen, in their wisdom, hired Webb and Associates to forge the Special Tax Rolls based on the theory that if a ‘consultant’ forged the tax rolls that made it ‘ok’.
Traditionally; the City of Beaumont illegally overcharged Mello Roos Taxes by $6 Million/year, but on the 2016/2017 Budget the Beaumont City Council Approved illegally overcharging Mello Roos Taxes by over $7.5 Million.
On August 2, 2016, Agenda Item 8. n. the Beaumont City Council Approved gifting Webb and Associates a $228,735 Contract to submit the illegally overcharged Special Tax Rolls to the Riverside County Tax Assessor by the August 19th deadline.
A Public Records Request has been submitted to the City of Beaumont for a copy of the 2016/2017 Special Tax Rolls that were submitted to the Riverside County Tax Assessor.
The City claims that they do not have the 2017 Mello Roos Special Tax Rolls.
Really?
Webb and Associates was allowed to prepare the Special Taxes and submit them directly to the County without any oversight or signature from the City of Beaumont?
Really?
Last year is was revealed that the Riverside County Tax Assessor never verifies any taxes submitted. Now are we to find that anyone can turn in a tax roll – a government officials’ signature is not even needed?
Really?
It doesn’t sound like a plausible scenario, but it’s much more plausible than Councilmen approving the illegal overcharging of $7.5 Million in municipal bond taxes with the SEC breathing down their necks.
The City of Beaumont either has the Special Tax Rolls submitted to Riverside County or they are grossly negligent in maintaining records and monitoring their consultants.
But with so many counts of Federal Municipal Bond Fraud and embezzlement what’s a few counts of gross negligence.