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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because your business district has been dying for over 5 years?[/quote]

OP here - yes I think it would be great to bring more business here, but there is a lot of research on BIDs and how they are a giveaway to the wealthy. What I love about downtown SS is not the chains but the small Ethiopian, Colombian, Haitian, etc businesses that have been a lifeline to us during the pandemic. I understand they will not be represented and that's a real problem for me.[/quote]

How is it a giveaway to the wealthy?

It is a self-taxing mechanism to collectively market the area and take care of other tasks that the County should be, but isn't doing. Where do the wealthy benefit?[/quote]

The wealthy get more representation and therefore a better opportunity to shape the board's decisions to their benefit. They said the quiet part out loud.  It's actually written into the law.  Should we start running county elections that way?[/quote]

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