{"id":343176,"date":"2026-06-02T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343176\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:34:31","slug":"news-12-long-island-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343176\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The City of Long Beach has voted to pierce its tax cap, which will raise costs for the south shore residents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Republican-led city council approve a 3.75% tax increase &#8211; which comes out to about $229 per median household.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I feel very confident to say that this is a solid budget, I wish we weren&#8217;t piercing the cap but we are and we&#8217;re looking forward to working on the budget immediately for next year,&#8221; a city council member said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Democrats say the council is &#8220;raising your taxes and draining city savings just to make the numbers work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They&#8217;re also upset that special meeting to approve the budget was help at 9 a.m. on a weekday while most residents were out working.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city council retorted that there were two days of public hearings on the budget prior to the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Long Beach has voted to pierce its tax cap, which will raise costs for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-343176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}