[PROPOSED] JUDGMENT and JOINT PEREMPTORY WRIT OF MANDATE, including ARGUMENT
IN FAVOR OF MEASURE O
April 3, 2014
MEASURE O
Monterey Peninsula Water
Management District
BEFORE
JUDGE’S ORDERS AFTER
JUDGE’S ORDERS
BALLOT LABEL
Shall the
citizen-circulated initiative entitled 'Monterey Peninsula Water System Local
Ownership and Cost Saving Initiative' be adopted?"
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"Shall the
ordinance, Measure 0, which directs the Monterey Peninsula Water Management
District to adopt a policy to move toward public ownership of all water systems
within its boundaries by conducting a feasibility study, and if deemed
feasible, move forward with acquisition of all such water systems' assets, be
adopted?"
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ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF MEASURE O
Vote YES on Measure
0 for lower rates and local ownership. YES means keeping the investments on
the Peninsula and owning, not renting, the assets of our water system.
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Vote YES on Measure
0 for lower rates and local ownership. "YES means
keeping the investments on the Peninsula and owning the assets of our water
system."
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Local public
ownership means lower rates for water. By eliminating profit, and qualifying
for lower cost municipal bonds, studies show that public ownership delivers
water 25% cheaper.
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Local public ownership means lower rates for water. "By eliminating
profit, and qualifying for lower cost municipal bonds, a study
shows that public ownership in California delivers water 20% cheaper.”
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Measure 0 would
bring additional jobs to the
Peninsula. Cal-Am, a private New Jersey company takes more than half of its revenues out of our
community. Over 20% of the money you pay goes to profit.
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"Measure
O could bring additional jobs to the Peninsula." "Cal-Am, a
California corporation which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a private New
Jersey company takes revenues out of our community."
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YES means an
immediate savings as public agencies operate without profit. The savings will
boost our local economy. Cal-Am admits its rates will TRIPLE over six years
with no accountability to you. Under Measure 0, rates would be set locally.
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"YES means savings
as public agencies operate without profit."
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Local, public
ownership of
water
is common since water is a public resource. 85% of Americans get their water
from public agencies where all decisions are local.
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Local,
public ownership of
water
is common since water is a public resource. 85% of Americans get their water
from public agencies where all decisions are local.
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Investor-owned
utilities (lOU's} like Cal-Am are beholden to their remote shareholders, not
to local ratepayers. That’s why Cal-Am was able to waste over $35 million in failed efforts to find new
water and pass those increases off to you. Since 2003 Cal-Am has failed three
times to produce new water. Under the current system, we take all the risk
while distant shareholders reap all the reward.
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"Investor-owned
utilities (lOU's) like Cal-Am are beholden to their shareholders, not to
local ratepayers." That’s why Cal-Am
was able to waste over $35 million in failed efforts to find new water and pass
those increases off to you. Since 2003 Cal-Am has failed three times to
produce new water. "Under the
current system, we take risk while shareholders reap reward.”
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Public ownership
assures long term supply reliability and controlled costs. In fact, the only
success to date in developing new water sources has come from the local
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District.
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"Public
Ownership promises long term supply reliability and controlled costs." ‘In fact, success
to date in developing new water sources has come from the local Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District."
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Background
citations available at www.PublicWaterNow.org
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Background
citations available at www.PublicWaterNow.org
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We
pay for our water, we should own the system that delivers it. It's common
sense.
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We
pay for our water, we should own the system that delivers it. It's common
sense.
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The
League of Women Voters of Monterey County endorses Measure 0.
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The
League of Women Voters of Monterey County endorses Measure 0.
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Vote
YES on Measure 0.
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Vote
YES on Measure 0.
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lsi Beverly Bean,
President, League of Women Voters of Monterey County lsi Ronald T.
Cohen, Managing Director, Public Water Now
lsi Richard Stillwell,
Local Business Owner /s/ Priscilla Helm Walton, Past President, Democratic
Women of Monterey County
/s/
Alan Haffa, MPC Professor
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lsi Beverly Bean,
President, League of Women Voters of Monterey County lsi Ronald T.
Cohen, Managing Director, Public Water Now
lsi Richard Stillwell,
Local Business Owner /s/ Priscilla Helm Walton, Past President, Democratic
Women of Monterey County
/s/
Alan Haffa, MPC Professor
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Water war: Judge orders revision to Measure O ballot language, Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, 04/03/14
Highlight Excerpts:
Judge Thomas Wills ruled on Thursday that the Measure O ballot title should be changed, and several ballot arguments submitted by the initiative's proponents — Public Water Now — should be stricken or edited because they were clearly false or misleading.
On the ballot title, Wills ruled that a reference to the "Monterey Peninsula Water System Local Ownership and Cost Savings Initiative" should be stricken because there was no "absolute certainty" that passage of the initiative would result in either local ownership or cost savings. Instead, the judge ordered that the title include a description of what the initiative proposes to do, requiring the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District to adopt a policy that all water systems within its boundaries should be publicly owned, and to conduct a feasibility study and attempt to acquire Cal Am's Monterey system if it is found to be feasible.
In contrast to the ballot title, Wills said
courts allow ballot arguments more leeway to include rhetoric and opinion, and
let the voters decide. In that context, he ruled that many of the Measure O
proponents' arguments would be allowed, including the statement that voting for
the initiative would result in "lower rates and local ownership."County elections officials are slated to send
ballot materials to the printer on Friday.
ADDENDUM:
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District "Water System Local Ownership and Cost Saving Initiative," Measure O (June 2014), BALLOTPEDIA
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