MOORPARK MEASURES AXED.Byline: Sylvia Sylvia may refer to:
The pool of ballot measures that voters in Moorpark will see on Nov. 3 has rapidly shrunk shrunk v. A past tense and a past participle of shrink. shrunk Verb a past tense and past participle of shrink shrunk, shrunken shrink to half of what it started with. At a special meeting Thursday afternoon, the City Council voted 2-1 to take Measure H, its bond measure to raise money for legal fees, off the ballot. That move, coupled with a judge's CERTIFICATE, JUDGE'S, English practice. The judge who tries the cause is authorized by several statutes in certain cases to certify, so as to decide when the party or parties shall or shall not be entitled to costs. decision last month to take Measure E - the Moorpark Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources initiative - off the ballot, has brought the number of ballot measures from four to two. Those left are Measure F, the city's growth boundary control measure, and Measure G, a bond measure to raise money to purchase open space. Some on the council said Friday that the legal defense fund was taken out because they thought the city's Measure F was inherently more secure from legal challenges. ``There isn't a measure out there that the city can put on that can't be litigated,'' said Councilwoman Debbie Rodgers Teasley, who along with Councilman Bernardo Perez voted to remove it. ``But when a city puts it on, it goes under a closer review than one submitted by petition. It had already been looked at by the city attorney; we had already taken public comment on it.'' Councilman John Wozniak
John Wozniak (born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on January 19, 1971) is an American musician. , who cast the vote against its removal, said he didn't want to confuse con·fuse v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es v.tr. 1. a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off. b. voters by taking yet another measure off the ballot. ``We've already had a couple of other measures go on and off,'' he said. ``We're just doing too much moving around and confusing con·fuse v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es v.tr. 1. a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off. b. people even more. It didn't hurt anything by being there.'' Measure H was introduced to raise funds to pay for legal costs incurred if the city was sued over either Measure E or Measure F. Although it applied to both, SOAR supporters said they weren't surprised to see the measure gone with their own initiative. They believe the bond was never meant to cover Measure F at all, and it would have reflected negatively on the city's measure if it appeared on the same ballot. ``If we don't see the tax measure again, we'll know that they really did think the tax measure is a bad idea,'' said Roseann Mikos, a SOAR leader. ``But if we see it resurrected when the (Moorpark) SOAR measure gets on the ballot, it shows that they are disingenuous dis·in·gen·u·ous adj. 1. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who ... exemplified ... .'' |
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