mr. whittaker. >> good morning. i'm just going to try to explain the math as it exists today and what the proposed ordinance would change it to. my name is jamie whittaker, i work in the budget analysis division managing the property tax unit. we work between the assessor office and tax collector treasurer office determining what the tax rate is, in this case the tenant pass-through rate. levying the tax so determining how much tax is to be collected by the tax collector and then after the tax collector collects payments as they did last wednesday in volume, allocate those monies to the tax entities and other direct charge entities like community benefit districts or other items that appear on our tax bills. september is when the board usually sees the tax rate resolution and are also included in that resolution is the tenant pass-through related information. we basically use general obligation bond dbt service that appears in the annual appropriation ordinance, the budget, and also assessed value the assessor has d

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