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Dear Taxpayer,                                                   

Thank you for visiting the Yolo County Taxpayers Association website. – We serve the taxpayers of Yolo County by providing information about tax, spending, and regulatory proposals to ensure that our government representatives are accountable for their use of your hard-earned tax dollars.  

As a local, grassroots organization, much of the YCTA's work is focused on city, special district, and county government activities that get little attention or critical review in TV and print media. We hope that you will visit this site for analysis of measures that would result in more spending, tax increases, shifts in funding between public services, and loss of property rights.

Local, state, and federal agencies are now faced with large budget deficits because of past spending decisions that did not account for economic cycles that have existed since the founding of our nation. The first reflex of government to loss of expected revenues is to increase taxes and fees. It is the job of YCTA to remind our representatives and public employees that taxes are paid by individuals and businesses who do not have limitless resources and have expenses of their own.  

YCTA’S “WATCH DOG LIST” 

• Yolo County's unsuccessful attempt to use eminent domain to buy the Conaway Ranch, which had an estimated value of sixty million dollars. This adventure by the Board of Supervisors would have seized the Conaway Ranch from unwilling sellers for no clear public use.
   
• Transfer of privately owned utility properties fro Pacific Gas and Electric Company to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
  This local ballot measure would have burdened Yolo County rate players with the cost of purchasing utility properties and equipment that they had already paid for, while reducing taxes and subventions paid by PG&E, with proposed rate reductions dependent upon economic factors that have not materialized.
   
• Yolo County land use policies!
  The County is seizing private property from local landowners and family farmers
  without their consent for so-called preservation projects. This longstanding
  practice has resulted in public ownership of land that no longer generates property taxes required to fund public services, such as education and road maintenance.
   
• Now, Despite being faced with more red ink and spending millions in a failed effort to take over the Conaway Ranch, Yolo County’s Supervisors think they deserve a pay raise.  What will they think of next?

Be assured that we are hard at work to protect your hard earned tax dollars. But we can’t do it alone. So I encourage you to join us and sign up for email alerts that notify you of when your tax dollars and private property are under threat from big spenders.     

John Munn
President