Among other things in a skewering letter to the California Public Employment Relations Board, San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith writes, “Never in the history of this state … has there ever been a requirement to meet and confer over a citizens’ initiative placed on the ballot by voter signatures.”
That pretty much sums it up when it comes to the state PERB lawsuit alleging the city’s lack of utilizing the meet and confer process with public employee unions prior to placing the Comprehensive Pension Reform measure on the ballot. As Goldsmith notes, CPR is not a city council initiated measure.
Case closed, it seems, except when it come to PERB acting at the behest of its buddies.
Read the letter from Goldsmith.
Here too are declarations from Goldsmith and Council President Tony Young.