1) Some council candidates have talked about protecting the green line. Some have added the gold line. I believe the Blue Line is just as important. That’s the group of men and women who protect us from the non-law abiding folks causing the tension many of us feel walking around downtown and other places. A community that doesn’t feel safe shuts itself inside and isn’t a community at all. Support our public safety officers as strongly as the environment of which they are a part. They’re equally important.
2) Commercial airliners have safety mechanisms built in that warn the pilot prior to a catastrophe (crash). If the City of Chico had such a device it would be blaring: “PULL UP, PULL UP, PULL UP!”
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Right on. That’s why I keep telling everyone to vote for Sean Morgan, Toby Schindelbeck, Bob Evans and Andrew Coolidge! We’ve got to change the composition on the council to fiscally knowledgeable and responsible people, otherwise our city employees will be at risk of more cuts and our basic city services will be at risk too.
We are on the same page here. How many rapes, stabbings, murders and mayhem downtown will it take to reset priorities in this town? The next election will tell if citizens wish for Chico to remain a dirt bag scum paradise or not.
Sean Morgan, Toby Schindelbeck, Bob Evans and Andrew Coolidge are my choice to make a change.
Just in case you missed in back in 2009, this is what the Schawb et al are all about. They just don’t have the opportunity and power Maxine Waters has —
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3I-PVVowFY
None of the candidates are addressing the 60 million pound gorilla in the room, the unfunded city pension liabilities in excess of $60 million and growing. That is a complete non-issue in this election.
None of them are addressing where the millions will come from to re-imburse the state for RDA money it demands.
We need candidates to put Lando on notice that if he wants a sales tax increase he will have to collect signatures to get it on the ballot, that a bogus survey won’t do. (What he pulled last time.) And we need candidates to stand up and tell Lando they will not support a sales tax increase, period.
We need candidates to stand up and tell the truth about this Sustainability Task Force. It’s true motivation is the U.N.’s Agenda 21 and the destruction of property rights.
And we need candidates to stand up and say this task force and other city bureaucracies WILL BE ELIMINATED.
And then we begin to eliminate or outsource as many city functions as possible.
Folks, that’s going to happen sooner or later with the pension and general fiscal trainwreck that’s coming.
But’s it’s going to be much more expensive and painful if the needed change comes later rather than sooner.
Joseph, actually several of the candidates have raised that precise issue, Sean Morgan, Bob Stevens and Andrew Coolidge to be exact. I don’t know where Toby is on this, but I suspect he would agree with the above. They all recognize that we need to go to a two tier system, because we can’t afford the current system. They’ve got the details and I don’t want to speak for them, but you might check their websites or shoot em an email for the particulars.
The City is using the emergency reserve fund to stay solvent. This can’t continue for very long. We need a change of direction and quickly. Instead of debating smoking bans, bag bans, and corporate person-hood, they need to fix the budget. I am also voting for Sean Morgan, Toby Schindelbeck, Bob Evans and Andrew Coolidge.
A two tier system won’t cut it. The savings from that system won’t be enough and will take years to be realized. We don’t have the time.
The reality is that in the private sector pretty much no new hires get pensions anymore. It’s been like that for a couple of decades.
And those in the private sector that do have pensions have had them vastly scaled back.
These days private sector workers are lucky to have a small 401k match and it does not amount to anywhere near the cost of a defined benefits package.
The idea that government workers are going to get 60 or 70% of their salaries for the rest of their lives is no longer practical. And what cops and firefighters get, 80 to 90% of their salaries plus medical when they are in their 50s is totally insane. As is the idea that they will “retire” in their 50s, receive such benefits and then go to work for a different government agency and get a full salary plus benefits on top of their pensions. Happens all the time and I believe an ex Chico police chief recently did this by going to work at Butte College.
Jack, the reality is the private sector can no longer afford to pay their workers pensions.
If the private sector can’t afford this and the private sector IS the tax base then how on Earth can the private sector afford to pay pensions to government workers?
The answer is very simple. The private sector can’t.
We need candidates who will stand up to the police and fire unions.
Jack,
I most likely will vote for the candidates you mentioned plus Toby because staying with the Schwabistas will be a total disaster.
I am very sick of these 5 to 2 votes, and the arrogance and cluelessness of the Gang of 5 is intolerable.
They are all for the destruction of property rights, confiscatory taxation, ruinous debt and for government micromanaging our lives and this is totally unacceptable.
However, we must have candidates willing to take on the unions, especially the police and fire unions.
And we must get rid of excessive government bureaucracy and outsource as much of what’s left as possible.
Excellent…me too! -Jack
“We need candidates to stand up and tell the truth about this Sustainability Task Force. It’s true motivation is the U.N.’s Agenda 21 and the destruction of property rights.”
Uh-huh. And taking canvas bags to the market interferes with your property rights … how, exactly?
You know, these committee members are all citizens, voluteers, concerned for the quality of the environment they pass along to their great-grandchildren, and who are you to tell them how to expend their civic energies?
Libby, if the City were to ask me to use a canvas grocery bag and they explained their reasons and those reasons were logical, I would go along for the sake of the community good. But, they are not asking they are getting in my business. They are coming uncomfortably close when they start dictating what kind of bag I can use.
You do understand the wisdom behind my concerns, don’t you?