LETTERS: PSYCHIATRIC-WARD AUDIT BLAMING WRONG PEOPLE : DAM IS TAXING PROBLEM.It is a cruel hoax that the audit released last week by the state Department of Mental Health finds that ``an exceedingly high'' number of patients are hospitalized at the psychiatric ward at Ventura County Medical Center Ventura County Medical Center is a hospital in the city of Ventura, California, USA. It is a 208 bed acute care hospital. The county also operates a 49 bed campus in Santa Paula. - a small, 43-bed facility required to serve a county of nearly 800,000 residents. Crueler still are the auditors' findings that patients could be better served by residential treatment facilities, services which are nearly nonexistent non·ex·is·tence n. 1. The condition of not existing. 2. Something that does not exist. non in this county and which have been begged for by families of the mentally ill for over a decade. Any family who has lived through this harsh reality Harsh Reality are a little-known, proto-prog band born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire out of the remnants of the Freightliner Blues Band (formerly the Revolution) in the early sixties. should be outraged that state Sen. Cathie Wright, R-Simi Valley, and others with political agendas unsupported by the facts would stoop to Verb 1. stoop to - make concessions to patronise, patronize, condescend - treat condescendingly placing the blame for these longstanding problems on the recently established Behavioral Health Behavioral health was first used in the 1980's to name the combination of the fields mental health and substance abuse. As an example, an organization serving both mental health and substance abuse clients might refer to its practice as behavioral health or Administration, which has actually begun to address the problem in a meaningful way. - Susan Vinson Member National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Ventura County Medical Resource Foundation Your article on the Lang Ranch Dam missed one very important point: Residents in Lang Ranch are paying a Mello Roos tax that, we are told, is for the beautification beau·ti·fy tr. & intr.v. beau·ti·fied, beau·ti·fy·ing, beau·ti·fies To make or become beautiful. beau of our parks, streets, etc. Now we are told that this added tax was for the Lang Dam. Furthermore, this was never disclosed when we purchased our homes. Added to this is the fact that the Lang Dam is designed to make up for an obsolete flood control system that the county can't afford to upgrade. Then we find that the Woodridge housing development, which will also be using the Lang Dam for their storm water runoff, doesn't have to pay any Mello Roos. The Lang Dam is not just for the Lang Ranch area. No wonder the dam has to be so large - the third-largest basin for storm water in the county! Why must our Mello Roos pay for problems totally unassociated with our development? Furthermore, they collect our taxes and if they can build the dam for less than what they collect, the county can use it for other projects unrelated to Lang Ranch. No wonder they don't want to pay for a new environmental impact report; that is $50,000 more in the county pot! The county needs to be accountable to the residents of Lang Ranch and use our Mello Roos tax to put the basin out of view and out of the ancient oak grove Oak grove may refer to
Oak Grove is a common name for several places in the United States of America. . They should put it where it was originally intended, just east of the Erbes Road pump station. We are paying for it; we should have the choice. - Dr. Sandra Volpe Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. |
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