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Supported bond propositions
Published Tuesday, October 27, 2009
The proposed $12 million bond issue for the city will appear on today's ballot. The bond issue ballot is broken down into 13 propositions. Twelve of those propositions cover city departments and their needs. Not item is listed under each department. To print such a list as a ballot would cost thousands of dollars. That's one of the reasons the city held various town meetings to discuss every portion of the bond issue.
In the first proposition, voters have the opportunity to vote for all the proposed bond issues or against all the bond issues. It is the recommendation of The Selma Times-Journal that voters select items, instead of voting the straight ticket.
The newspaper endorses each proposition with the exception of No. 13 Landfill Facilities.
The landfill closure and opening were well planned for. The $100,000 was placed into the bond issue as an afterthought. Indeed, two votes of the Selma City Council were needed before this proposition passed. When discussion of closing the landfill and opening a new one began many months ago, the city put away ample money to meet state environmental criteria for closing and opening another.
This $100,000 is not needed for this project in our view. That is the reason we recommend voting against proposition 13 in the bond issue, but casting yes votes for all the other propositions.
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Posted by popdukes12 (anonymous) on October 27, 2009 at 6:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well that was pretty SLICK, glad you caught it, and called them out on it. If the city council approve the $100k to be included in the bond, they must have been partially informed about the previous set asides. popdukes12
Posted by eyeonyou (anonymous) on October 28, 2009 at 11:21 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This is nothing more than "Shut Up" money for Crenshaw. I can guarantee the city council is going to have one heck of a time trying to get ANYTHING from her to where this money is spent. She'll flim flam through that money with her little trips to Washington and such. Heck, her voters are going to love having new Thanksgiving turkey's and Christmas money after this goes through.
Posted by popdukes12 (anonymous) on October 28, 2009 at 10:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Benny's christmas club. Now that makes sense. Hopefully, one of the councilmen will wake up long enough to demand accountability on this $100k. popdukes12
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