Thanks to Rushing for open government policy
Since December 2006 I have found out that the campground lease agreement to the property owners of Spring Valley is not ” in perpetuity.” The “in perpetuity” clause refers to the use of the campground property by a deed restriction, for park land “in perpetuity” The actual lease agreement is for 99 years, of which 58 years remain.
Supervisor Denise Rushing requested documents for Spring Valley and read the campground lease agreement to me. It is her dedication to open government that allowed me to find this error.
The same error appears in a letter to Denise Rushing and the editors of the Observer-American and Record-Bee, titled “Who owns the Spring Valley water system?” dated Jan. 7, which was placed into the record of the Board of Supervisors by Supervisor Rushing after she was sworn into office.
I apologize for this error, and thank Supervisor Rushing for her open government policy.
Don Scott
Clearlake Oaks
Seniors are being discriminated against
It”s ironic, at a time when “illegal immigrants” are on the verge of being issued driver”s licenses, that the generation who built and maintained the highways are systematically being denied this basic need.
Even more ironic is the fact the statistics are flawed; Seniors have the lowest accident rate of any group, however, it is claimed that “they have more accidents per mile driven”. No other demographic group is subjected to this line of reasoning. For instance, [if] women have more accidents per mile driven than men, should only females be subjected to additional and more intensive testing?
The vast majority of automobile accidents occur within a 10-mile radius of home where seniors do virtually all their driving. They fly or travel on tour busses on the long safe rural highways where younger drivers rack up their “safer per mile” statistics.
What we”re dealing with here is plain and simple age discrimination and the mind set that only commercial endeavors are significant.If you”re not out there making money, then you are irrelevant, social, personal and religious activities not withstanding.
There were a rash of suicides among the 50-plus generation in the mid ?80s when these hard-working people were force-retired and locked out of the workforce. Now threatened with immobility there may be a second such happening as seniors are denied the right to conduct necessary daily activities under the pretext of making highways safer.
California is not served by public transit. In many rural areas even mailboxes are miles away, as are other necessary infrastructures such as hospitals, dentists, drug and grocery stores, churches and senior social facilities.
Age discrimination is a bad and ungrateful policy, unnecessarily hurting those who created the infrastructure that has made this nation so great, and will do nothing to alleviate the rate of highway accidents.
Edgar Gillham
Middletown
