Faced with a daunting $3.7 million municipal budget deficit, Mayor Bob Crowell and city supervisors last Monday decided to raise our property taxes by nearly 4 percent a few days after voting to draft a ballot measure that would increase local sales taxes to pay for a big new library that we don't want, don't need and can't afford. The Board of Supervisors met 10 days ago to discuss the latest iteration of the ever-changing Nugget Project, also known as the City Center Project, which has become a constantly moving target because it changes every time it's presented to the …

