The Sacramento City Council’s opinion on annexation is that it’s much more expensive to provide municipal services than the ‘city’ can expect to receive in tax revenue from older established unincorporated neighborhoods.
564,657 people live in the ‘unincorporated’ parts of Sacramento (more than the 521,000 that live in the ‘city’ with boundaries that at times that defy logic.
Up until 1997, Sacramento was really the only city in the entire county except for Folsom and Galt. Attempts for city / county consolidation were rejected twice by voters. Had that passed Sacramento would have raked in additional tax revenue that were specific for municipalities and the city would have a ‘city’ population close to 1.5 million.
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