Liang Chao

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Cupertino City Council · City Council on 2026-01-13 6:45 PM - Special Meeting - Jan 13, 2026 · 13 Jan 2026 meeting

We, if you look at our budget at the glance, we give to the county about 34%, which I think include the 7% to the fire department.

So I think

We have been talking about this over the years, but maybe if we can finally get information memo with the comparison data between cities, so we at least know how short we are in terms of politics we get.

And then perhaps we can use this to argue,

a plea to the county to give us more resources since we are probably contributing more to the county, even if changing the property tax percentage is not likely, but I would like to know what it would take to change this percentage so it's fair to us.

And then should we consider the rideshare tax?

I'm not sure.

Is that something practical to consider?

But people do use a lot more rideshare now.

Could we maybe use that potential rideshare tax to subsidize our Harper program, for example?

uh which if we i think when we piloted that we know we are subsidizing it heavily but we do need to have a plan to make it a suspendable if we want to keep it so that might be part of the plan we yeah we can certainly bring back information on how any of these taxes might function like we were talking earlier about sales tax and i know we

So I do want to be sure so we are getting an info memo on the self-tax comparison with other cities and what might it take to change it so at least we have a writing on we know what exactly it takes to to potentially make it fair and then

No, property tax, sorry, property tax, not sales tax.

Thank you for the correction, yeah, property tax.

And then for the sales tax, I do want to be sure, can we give direction that at least we get ready in case VTA ballot major becomes a reality?

So I would like to know how much work, how much time

we will need in case we do need to put something on the ballot.

So we have an estimate.

So in case we need that, we know how much, how long it takes for us to do it.

I think the cost for sales tax major will be different in terms of the...

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