Published: 2 years 1 days ago
KCRA.com: Mayor Kevin Johnson is reacting to a problem uncovered by KCRA 3 in Sacramento's revenue division.
The city is sitting on thousands of dollars worth of checks they could be cashing because they don’t have the personnel to process them and hundreds of businesses are operating with expired licenses.
“That’s not the bureaucracy that I’m proud of. So, we need to do a much better job,” said Mayor Kevin Johnson.
The manager of the revenue division said they need to restructure in order to keep up with business. It’s not the first department in the city to admit the status quo isn't working.
“Thanks to you we found out that we weren’t in compliance,” said Nancy Martis, manager of Ink Restaurant.Ink is just one of several businesses trying to renew their license after learning from a KCRA 3 report theirs had expired.
“My first response was, 'Oh my gosh. How bad could this be,'” Martis said.Martis said she never received a bill from the city. She's one of over 100 restaurants listed as expired.
She said she called the city multiple times Tuesday and got nothing but busy signals and answering machines.“I went ahead and copied my expired business permit and I wrote them a letter and I sent them a check,” Martis said.
“I think we need to change the government structure from a weak mayor to an executive mayor,” Johnson said. “I do believe business as usual is not acceptable and we should be doing a much better job. Things like this really kind of send us back a step or two unfortunately.”
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