The San Diego County Taxpayers Association Board of Directors voted to support a City of Oceanside ballot measure adopting a City Charter, changing the City of Oceanside’s status from a General Law municipality to Charter status. The measure will come before voters on the June 8, 2010 primary ballot.
Lani Lutar, President & CEO of the Association, said SDCTA’s board supported the measure for the following reasons:
- The City’s Charter prevents mandatory labor agreements from being imposed on private developers for publicly funded projects, ensuring the most cost-effective use of taxpayer dollars.
- The City’s Charter would exempt the City of Oceanside from California state public contracting and prevailing wage requirements, which will give the City greater freedom to choose contractors as well as a greater potential to save money on public projects.
- It requires public employees to opt in before union dues can be spent for political purposes.
Read the full release at the Association website here.
A copy of the full staff analysis of the City Charter measure for the City of Oceanside is available here.
Check back on the Association website at www.sdcta.org for additional ballot recommendations throughout the election season… a terrific resource for issues impacting the taxpayers and your bottom line.
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Oceanside has NEVER required the use of PLAs. This is mass disinformation coming from the so-called Taxpayer group. Oceanside has always had the freedom to choose any qualified bidder on a project. Oceanside has always had free and open competition. Methinks Lutar’s group has an axe to grind with unions and will drag the city down for no reason. Afterall the ABC and their lobbyist wrote the Charter. It is NOT taxpayer friendly and will COST THE CITY MORE MONEY TO IMPLEMENT UNNEEDED NEW RULES.
Mandy is off base. Whether Oceanside has or has not required the use of PLAs in the past, the point is that a council majority can require their use if they so desire. The charter proposal would bar such a scenario, thus guaranteeing open competition, regardless of whether the unions run the city. The “mass disinformation” you cite is in the charter proposal, which the city has placed on the ballot, not the Taxpayers Association.
Why would anyone in their right mind require a PLA? This proposed charter language does NOT prohibit using them by the way.
Greg you need to read the charter and understand what’s going on here.
The “CITY” did not put this on the ballot. 3 councilmen who owed their positions to donations from development-based interests put it on the ballot with NO public involvement, no involvement of 2 other members of the council and no involvement of the City Attorney. This charter proposal was done in secret. See the website to learn more: http://www.citizensagainstcharter.com
Thank you.
Which is it Mandy? You alternately claim (a) the City doesn’t need the protection from PLAs, (b) Councils wouldn’t support PLAs anyways, and (c) the Charter doesn’t prohibit PLAs. Yet, Poseidon had to sign a PLA to get its project approved in Carlsbad. Oceanside has the same pressure because of the Coastal Commission. Mandy will say anything and hope it sticks with someone. Mandy is all over the map and has invested in disinformation and confusion in hopes of killing the Charter. Over 100 Charter cities in California and more every year. Endorsements from taxpayer groups and supermajority votes of the electorate for Charter city status. During 2008, Carlsbad voted 82 percent to adopt a charter. Maybe Mandy wants to argue Prop 13 wasn’t necessary and Sacramento politicians are leaders in fiscal responsibility. You can’t read the Charter at the opposition’s disinformation website cited by Mandy. Rather than Mandy’s hodge podge of deceit, please read the excellent analysis by the San Diego County Taxpayers Assoc. so you can learn how the Charter provides extensive worker and taxpayer protections. Oceanside can restore integrity and pursue government efficiency in its services.
http://www.sdcta.org/Uploads/Documents/Bd%20Approved%20Proposed%20Charter%20City%20for%20Oceanside%202-19-2010%20JG_2.pdf
Thanks Doug for your character assassination. Just check out the website. We are not Carlsbad. You want to talk about deceit, how about the charter being drafted in secret by an out of town lobbyist with zero citizen input. That goes against every democratic principle in America. Maybe you can live with these gestapo tactics. Most of us informed voters cannot.