BENEFITS
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The reasons the City of Santa Barbara and City of Goleta should consider Target at the Airport site are simple:
- Great Target Products!!!! We can finally shop at a local Target and get all the great Target products we love at their low prices without having to drive to Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo or Santa Maria!
- Retain our Sales Tax Dollars!!!! A local Target store will keep our millions of sales dollars here in Santa Barbara/Goleta benefiting our local retailers – if we don’t need to go to Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo or Santa Maria, then we’ll buy more from our local retailers!
- Target Sales taxes to improve our Community!!! It be wonderful if the City of Santa Barbara and Goleta would share the sales tax dollars to improve our community, like funding on-call fire-fighting aircraft at the SB airport, alternative transportation solutions, buildingthe La Patera overcrossing to relieve traffic congestion at the Calle Real/Fairview/101 intersection, funding parks and recreation, environmental protection of vital resources, and/or funding more affordable housing for our workforce;
- Great jobs!!! Full time and part time jobs – with excellent compensation packages and benefits, including one of the best health insurance programs, along with a chance to move up; while need high paying hi tech jobs, we also need good full time and part time jobs with flexible hours for our students, families and folks who might need a second income;
- Charitable donations!!! Target Corporation donates 5% of the local store's pre-tax income to local non-profit organizations;
- Sponsorship opportunities!!! Target is a huge sponsor of events in the communities it serves;
- Development fees!!! A Target retail center will generate impact fees that will improve our roads, fund our schools, help our libraries, support our parks and provide more money/resources for our fire and sheriff/police departments;
- Maximum Rent for the Airport!!! Target is offering to pay the City of Santa Barbara significant annual rent which the newly expanded SB Airport can use to provide better service to our Community.
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