Early voting is about to start. Over the next few days we will cover the proposed changes to our city charter and my thoughts about them. This will be a serial post in that it will be added to and when finished will cover each of the nine propositions.
Just in time for this series, the city has published their official notices and has actually given us the wording that they will use if we vote for any of the propositions.
Many will disagree with my thoughts about some of these. Good!
Just go vote your conscience. Show everyone that elections work.
I wonder how many proposals are turned down. Then I wonder how many proposals turn out to be a bad idea. 🙂
Proposition 9–no
This would allow the sale of general obligation bonds for “any lawful purpose”. Evidently there is some current restriction of what city council can sell. Good! We have a lot of debt to handle right now and that group already has plenty of ways to take our money. They don’t need another one.
It would also allow council to buy property (land, buildings, equipment) through lease purchases. This would allow them to spread costs out over many budget years thus stymieing our ability to force a tax roll back when our taxes raise more than a certain percentage year to year. We need to be realistic with our budgets and not hide costs. If we need it we should pay for it when we get it, or have a bond election.
Read Proposition 9 for more.
We deserve better
Brutus
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