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From: Bob Mulholland <chicobob@msn.com>
Sent: Monday,August 27, 2018 3:32 PM
To: Clerk of the Board;Admin Front Desk
Cc: Steve Schoonover; news@chicoer.com; KHSL TV; KRCR TV; Lorraine Dechter;Jerry
Olenyn; chiconewstips@newsreview.com; Melissa Daugherty
Subject: Fw: Proposition 3
August 27, 2018
Butte County Board of Supervisors
Cc. Media
I wish it was an error in the Chico Enterprise-Record (8/27/18), that the Butte
County Water Commission is recommending the Butte County Board of
Supervisors to pass a Resolution to oppose Proposition 3 on the November 6, 2018
ballot.
Proposition 3 includes over $200 million for repair work on the Oroville Dam and
$100 million for fire recovery and mitigation. When Proposition 3 passes, the
Powers to Be will work with various government agencies from the state to the
local level to implement it. If the Butte Board of Supervisors is on record in
opposition for the state to spend the money on Oroville Dam, most likely the State
will take that message at face value and hold off on allocating money for Oroville.
After all, state bond money is allocated over years, as the payments are part of the
state's General Fund and they can't spend the total bond money in one year.
Over the decades I have been in a lot of private meetings in the State Capitol
where budgets are being discussed and decided on. On some occasions- I heard-
no need to send money to that county, their Board of Supervisors was against the
idea or bill. If the Butte County Government and local Agencies are urging a No
vote on Proposition 3, the Message will be clear- put the Oroville Dam at the end
of the list- years down the road.
The Sites Reservoir is a good example. It will be funded by Proposition 1, which
passed statewide on the 11/4/14 ballot with a 67.1% vote. Colusa County, the home
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of the Sites Reservoir, passed it with a 67.4%. Smart voters- they'll see billions of
dollars coming into their small populated county. Butte County voted 52.1% for
Proposition 1.
Bob Mulholland
1051 Adlar Ct.
Chico, CA 95926
530-891-5260
chicobob@msn.com
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