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From:Theresa Bass
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Subject:FW: \[EXTERNAL\] ANAHEIM RESIDENTS, SMALL BUSINESSES UNITE TO PROTECT CITY
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From: Anaheim Residents Against Cuts to Essential City Services <info@protectanaheim.com>
Date: June 6, 2023 at 1:50:35 PM PDT
To: Stephen Faessel <SFaessel@anaheim.net>
Subject: \[EXTERNAL\] ANAHEIM RESIDENTS, SMALL BUSINESSES UNITE TO PROTECT CITY SERVICES
Reply-To: info@protectanaheim.com
Coalition opposed special interest ordinance that No images? Click here
puts community safety at risk
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Pete Hillan
831-227-5984
ANAHEIM RESIDENTS, SMALL BUSINESSES UNITE TO PROTECT CITY
SERVICES
Coalition opposes special interest ordinance that puts community safety at risk
ANAHEIM, CA. - June 6, 2023 — Anaheim residents, local hotels operators
and small businesses have created the Anaheim Residents Against Cuts to
Essential City Services coalition to protect city funds for critical services, such
as police, fire and parks and recreation that are at risk should the Anaheim City
Council adopt a special interest ballot measure.
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The initiative sponsored by UniteHere Local 11 would mandate unscientific
work rules, immediately increase labor costs by 39 percent and cost the City of
Anaheim upwards of $9 million annually. The measure would put local, family-
owned businesses, including most of the city’s hotel owners, at risk as they
would face a dramatic increase in operating costs after being closed for almost
two years during the global pandemic.
“Operating a hotel in Anaheim is what my family has done for three
generations, serving our guests, providing careers for our team members and
being proud ambassadors for the city,” said Greg Eisenman, General Manager
of the family-owned Tropicana Inn and the Camelot Inn. “Now, this special
interest labor union wants to raise our costs 39 percent in one year and dictate
unscientific work rules! This will make it extremely hard for us to make ends
meet.”
“Anaheim and my business depend on great hospitality,” said Dara Maleki,
owner of Anaheim-based The Pizza Press with 20 locations nationally. “This
measure’s costs and mandates 100 percent puts our hotels at risk, which puts
businesses like mine at risk. Higher costs equal fewer guests equal less pizza
sold. Our City Council has to do the right thing for all of us, not just special
interests.”
Last month, the Anaheim City Council authorized studies of the measure’s
economic impacts, including the potential loss of Transient Occupancy Taxes
from hotels, decreased sales tax revenue to the city, and increased costs for
the city-owned Convention Center and the Honda Center. The studies are
scheduled to be presented to the City Council on June 13, when the Council
also is expected to decide to adopt the ordinance, authorize a special election,
or place the measure on the November 2024 ballot.
To learn more about the committee or to join the coalition please reach out to
info@protectanaheim.com.
Paid for by Anaheim Residents Against Cuts to Essential City Services,
a project of the California Hotel & Lodging Association
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