Sales Tax Revenue

* The city of Camarillo is benefiting from the boom in a retail sales at Camarillo Premium Outlets. Consequently, the city is on a spending spree that makes a good case for the need for cities to share sales tax revenue.

Camarillo is spending $1.7 million to add an additional lane on Crestview Avenue, going up to Las Posas Estates. This plus having just completed a $7-million remodel of the downtown makes a total of nearly $9 million.

This is a good example of a city that has more money than it knows what to do with.

My perspective is from the location of our businesses in Ventura at the Ventura Freeway / Victoria Avenue intersection. We have recently gone through a major remodel of the intersection that cost nearly $14 million and was way overdue.

Our sales tax dollars should serve the public’s need on a priority basis, not a make-work program to spend money when there are so many other very real problems that are in need of funds.

JIM SALZER

Ventura