{"id":652354,"date":"2010-02-02T17:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.906"},"modified":"2010-02-03T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T05:16:08","slug":"city-parking-sell-off-fiasco-full-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652354","title":{"rendered":"City Parking Sell-off Fiasco: Full Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><!--Session data--><input onclick=\"jsCall();\" id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronkayela.com\/hollywoodhighland.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hollywoodhighland.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ronkayela.com\/hollywoodhighland-thumb-263x184.jpg?resize=263%2C184\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" width=\"263\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/span>City Hall&#8217;s plan to privatize 10 parking structures to cover its $208<br \/>\nmillion deficit without having to go into bankruptcy hit a snag Tuesday<br \/>\n&#8212; the biggest tax scofflaws in the city are parking lot operators.<\/p>\n<p>For<br \/>\nyears, city officials did little or nothing to collect the $400 million<br \/>\nowed it by companies and individuals &#8212; topping the list of debtors are<br \/>\nparking lot operators who owe the city more than $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>In<br \/>\nan emotional and sometimes angry Council session Tuesday, the issue<br \/>\ncame up as an embarrassment and obstacle to turning over operation of<br \/>\nthe city&#8217;s lots to the same group of people who have ripped the city<br \/>\noff.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the Council unanimously approved spending more<br \/>\nthan $500,000 more for a total of $1.2 million to move forward with<br \/>\nstudies to privatize its parking structures.<\/p>\n<p>For a full report, got to <a href=\"http:\/\/ourla.org\/\">OurLA.org<\/a> and read stories headliined<b> Parking Lot Privatization Triggers Heated Council Debate <\/b>and<b> Looking For Funds in LA Parking Structures, <br \/>\nTax Scofflaws.&nbsp; Lists of top debtors headed by parking lot operators are also available.<\/b>.<br \/><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><!--Session data--><input onclick=\"jsCall();\" id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Hall&#8217;s plan to privatize 10 parking structures to cover its $208 million deficit without having to go into bankruptcy hit a snag Tuesday &#8212; the biggest tax scofflaws in the city are parking lot operators. For years, city officials did little or nothing to collect the $400 million owed it by companies and individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JHQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}