The Al Lizakowski stats

From this week’s North Coast News City Council story:

” ‘We are being taxed to death,’ said Al Lizakowski, after giving council members charts showing Ocean Shores residents pay $902 per resident, compared to $105-347 per citizen in other Grays Harbor cities . . .”

While Mr. Lizakowski’s statistics are “factual,” they do not present the full picture. To get his “tax per resident,” he divided total taxes ($4.3 million, for Ocean Shores) by population (4,860, the official Ocean Shores figure).

For most cities, that might be a pretty good estimate. But in this case, it does not include the part-time residents and 12,000 lots/condo units that contribute to the tax base.