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ogre n Governor signs tax cut to help Ino and renters Ro ster `' ,y ° By Paula Sto 'Me Associated Press It"puts money back in peo- dies at 66 #`` SAN DIEGO — Gov. Pete Wilson signed ple's pockets by getting gov- ROYSTER: a bill Thursday reducing the tax bills of �� By Rob Nelson Tracy businessman. California drivers, renters and parents. ernment out of their wallets. Record Staff Writer The $3.6 billion in tax relief"puts money — Gov. Pete Wilson, back in peoples pockets by getting gov- TRACY — The owner of what has become the ernment out of their wallets and off their upon approving $3.6 billion in tax relief biggest tire bonfire in California history has died at backs," said Wilson, who signed the legis- his daughter's home in Volcano, family members said lation, part the state's nearly $77 billion Thursday. budget bill, at Cloud 9 Shuttle. downtown airport. Silas Fred "Chuck" Royster, whose 54-acre fire lot The tax cut actually reduces taxes by That money could go toward hiring south of Tracy has been spewing clouds of acrid only $1.4 billion this fiscal year. That cut another employee, adding benefits, buying smoke across the Valley since it caught fire Aug. 7, won't grow to $3.6 billion for five years, another vehicle or adding computer soft- died Tuesday of complications from lung cancer, lus and only if state revenues exceed current ware, he said. n daughter BeverlyMcConnell said. He was about a It's terrific that we have a surplus, he month shyof hi67th birthday. projections. said. "It's a crime not to give it back to Y Cloud 9 Shuttle owner John Hawkins Royster suffered from cancer for the past two years, said the tax reduction will save him about the people who earned it and generated it undergoing surgery to remove a Iwig, friends said. $20,000 a year. Ile uses a fleet of about in the first place." 120 vehicles to transport people through- Wilson said the surplus in state coffers Please see ROYSTER,A10 out San Diego County to and from the Please see TAX CUT,Back page � - L .wi♦� ,'ti $�Y�i�:�.r .. .Wr!.aFl ii 'aM.a'�ti fu�W..t_.r�9✓ `.':i..L.:CJa,...o�'�dt�1....f�iulX ri.. . ..wr141.� ti