Where Your Tax Dollars Go
$42.8M in pension and retiree health costs are embedded across department budgets. That's $413 per resident per year, flowing through every service line — not visible in any city budget summary. The dashed overlay shows this hidden layer.
The proposed vendor registration generates an estimated $0.4M annually — 0.3% of the general fund. Administrative costs of collection, enforcement, and compliance often approach the revenue generated by fees this small. At $125 per vendor, this is less a revenue instrument than a barrier to entry. A registration that exists to regulate, not to fund, should cost what it costs to process — not what the market will bear.