Millions “Do not call”
I found something that has stopped having people get through and try to have me answer my phone. The front of my phone has a screen and I can see the name and phone number, if I don’t want to talk with them I click off and they are gone. I got the phone at Kmart.
Jacqueline Baranzini, Lake County
Doesn’t add up
Some of the proposition ads are ridiculous. Take the soda tax one for instance. It says one can of soda a day will make you gain 10 pounds a year.
I am over 80 years old and have been drinking 2-3 cans of soda a day. Do the math. Guess what? I don’t weigh 2000 pounds
Norman Michael, N. Lakeport
Vote Yes on Measure V
Roads lead us to our destinations. They lead residents to our grocery stores, restaurants, and other destinations within and outside of our community. They lead our emergency vehicles to assist those in need and help save lives when an accident, fire, or crime has been committed. They lead our buses to and from school or for transit from bus stop to bus stop to transport our residents to doctor visits, shopping, and other important destinations. Our roads connect our commercial centers, our public institutions that serve our community, and they connect each and everyone of us to our neighbors and our friends and family living across town.
Roads are the foundation of a city. Think of it as a bloodstream, the veins, where it allows access to the center and extremities of the body, our city. If our roads are bad, then activity is restricted, our bloodstream in our veins become blocked and restrict flow. This is not a sustainable way of being. Our city streets in Clearlake are not healthy. This is where Measure V comes in.
Measure V is a special sales tax measure that can only be used on roads. Its primary focus is on residential streets. All publicly owned dirt roads will be annually graded and all publicly owned paved residential streets will be resurfaced or repaved. This will take time for our paved streets, but eventually they will all get redone. The measure ensures that the money will be used for our streets and only our streets since it is a special tax. This means two things: We need 2/3 voter approval in order for it to pass and the state will audit the city to ensure that it has followed what the voters voted for. In addition, Measure V has a sunset clause and a citizens’ oversight committee.
Clearlake is improving, but our infrastructure needs our help. If we do not show that we are willing to invest in ourselves, then why would businesses, developers, or families want to move to our city and invest in us. Measure V is the catalyst for great change in the City Clearlake to make our streets healthier. Take a moment to visit clearlake.ca.us and visit the Measure V information guide for more information. Clearlake is our home today and will be in the future. Vote YES on Measure V to give Clearlake a better road to the future.
Bruno Sabatier, Clearlake
An ode
Garamendi Garamendi the public fund spendy
Taking $88,000 of public pay
How long has it been since you and your friends
Had that much money to play
No record to defend no armed forces friend
He sat on the floor but had nothing to say.
On a committee, service members to defend
The time has arrived to bring this to an end
Livin on pensions with salary retentions
Too many public funds for good intentions
You work hard he misses votes
You show up, he’s not even there to take notes
Brice Futch, Vacaville
Vote for Bennett
I urge the citizens of Clearlake to join me in voting to retain “Nick” Bennett on the Clearlake City Council, November 8th.
Nick has served for the past 5 months on the Council and has proven his ability to put politics aside, reach out the community for advice, research and seek out professional opinions where needed, then coming to sound, fact based, logical, non-emotional, common sense conclusions.
Nick is a solid man with irreproachable integrity and no hidden agenda of any sort. What you see is what you get. Nick knows our City inside and out, as over the past 20 years Nick has been a Detective Sergeant with the Clearlake Police Department, living and working in the community he loves and serves always striving to build a better future for all of the citizens of Clearlake.
Living in “the avenues” with his wife and 13-year-old daughter, Nick is fully aware of the conditions of our roads and he is dedicated to the passage of Proposition “V” which will provide the funding to rebuild the most basic element and core of the City’s infrastructure — our roads. Improved roads combined with proactive and FAIR Code Enforcement are the cornerstone of improving the image and beautification of Clearlake.
Nick is an excellent Ambassador for our City, striving to keep our City moving forward in a positive direction with economic development which will create fiscal health for the City; and jobs for our citizens.
Nick is in touch with and involved with the full spectrum of citizens in our community; from youth to our seniors and Nick will continue to promote and build upon activities for our entire community.
Once again please join me on November 8th voting to retain Mr. Nick Bennett on the City of Clearlake City Council.
Conrad Colbrandt, Clearlake
