NEW-YEAR LARGESS

The new year started with a fiscal bang. In late December the State Board of Equalization released sales and use tax revenues--more than $25 million of which stopped in Orange County cities. The county government was allocated $1.6 million. Costa Mesa, Anaheim and Santa Ana received the largest dispersements. Costa Mesa had the largest per capita amount. Here’s how each city fared (rendered in order of total allocation) followed by a five-county comparison, also based on total monies received:

Total Per Capita % of All City Allocation Allocation Cities’ Income Costa Mesa 3,114,071.16 34.50 12 Anaheim $2,977,096.52 $11.97 12 Santa Ana 2,737,759.22 11.54 11 Irvine 2,187,021.51 22.53 9 Orange 2,122,343.35 20.60 8 Huntington Beach 1,804,916.53 9.61 7 Fullerton 1,387,073.86 12.28 5 Garden Grove 1,229,980.65 8.97 5 Newport Beach 1,225,125.91 17.80 5 Buena Park 918,964.56 13.71 4 Westminster 875,465.81 11.89 3 Mission Viejo 734,397.87 10.68 3 Brea 666,782.99 19.67 3 La Habra 457,317.39 9.27 2 Fountain Valley 456,915.13 8.20 2 San Juan Capistrano 389,800.06 15.42 1 Tustin 369,639.49 9.54 1 Placentia 307,143.70 7.83 1 Cypress 269,274.80 6.48 1 Stanton 255,049.34 8.98 1 San Clemente 248,850.31 7.09 1 Laguna Beach 227,161.58 11.70 1 Yorba Linda 188,074.62 4.29 1 Los Alamitos 148,425.99 12.26 1 Seal Beach 104,275.88 3.79 * La Palma 39,941.32 2.49 * Villa Park 7,885.59 1.14 * ALL CITIES 25,450,755.14 12.94 100

* Less than 1%.

FIVE-COUNTY COMPARISON

Total Per Capita % of All County Allocation Allocation Counties’ Income Los Angeles $75,118,791.00 $8.74 50 Orange 27,112,916.70 12.08 18 San Diego 21,254,849.88 9.20 14 Riverside 15,444,604.80 16.68 11 San Bernardino 10,967,385.32 9.01 7 FIVE-COUNTY TOTAL 149,898,547.70 9.81 100

Source: California State Board of Equalization; National Data Planning Corp.