Lake County voters should read the Lake County Sample Ballot Voter Information pamphlet. Measure J is $190 million in bonds for Yuba Community College District. Lake County Homeowners would be assessed $16 per $100,000 of assessed valuation. Lake County assessments would be used not only in Lake County, but your money would also go to support Woodland, Marysville, Sutter and Colusa County classrooms.
The argument in favor of Measure J, signed by Messers Cooper, Cornelison, Doty, Robey and Dr. Louise Bennicoff-Nan, addresses only Lake County with no mention of the other counties.
I, for one, have no intention of paying other counties to support their educational needs. Perhaps I do not understand the measure. Two semesters of semantics and Hayakawa lectures may have led me astray, but I do not believe Lake County homeowners as a rule are philanthropic.
Bill Tett
Spring Valley
