The county subsidizes the agency's operations and also backs the bonds for its debt.
A few commuters and civic activists spoke at the meeting against the new rates, saying the working public was being asked to subsidize the agency's foul-ups.
It would subsidize city agencies and community-based organizations to create a total of 2,500 jobs.
The California Chaparral Institute website refers to San Diego as a "welfare county" for firefighting, depending on sister fire agencies, state and local, to send their forces to help out, which means that well-organized agencies are subsidizing San Diego.
"In effect, city agencies are subsidizing some of the worst slumlords in New York City and in the process endangering the health and safety of vulnerable children and families," the coalition's report concluded.
From Romania to Catalonia to Iceland, cultural institutes and agencies are subsidizing publication of books in English, underwriting the training of translators, encouraging their writers to tour in the United States, submitting to American marketing and promotional techniques they may have previously shunned and exploiting existing niches in the publishing industry.
The plaintiffs argued with some success that these agencies were subsidizing companies pursuing projects that dramatically aggravated global warming.
New York City used to subsidize the health agency's deficit, but Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has gradually reduced these payments.
In the case of the PV-powered water pumps sponsored by the INDAP, the agency subsidizes 90% of the initial investment, while the beneficiary pays the remaining 10% as a long-term loan.
In these uncertain economic times, with the government considering a second economic stimulus package, should an independent regulatory agency subsidize a dubious business model to the tune of almost $3 billion?
