Extra Pay for Meetings, Training is Wrong
Extra Pay for Meetings, Training is Wrong
Editor,
Isn’t it sad when people who are elected to a office and receive a good salary have to receive additional pay to attend meetings or conferences where they can receive information or training to keep them up to date on how to do their jobs?
Maybe there should be a list of qualifications before they can run for a job.
Nevada Thomas
Hollister
Measure S Encourages the Wrong Kind of Growth
Editor,
Measure S encourages hyper-expansive growth, allowing developers to build nearly 900 new homes per year, in a city whose infrastructure can barely support the current population. Passage of Measure S will seriously impact local traffic, air quality, public services, sewage treatment, farmland preservation, and would circumvent the city’s current growth plan of 244 homes. It is unclear what the economic consequences of this will be on Hollister.
Pulte/Del Webb/Sun City proponents argue that local schools will benefit from this massive project because seniors will volunteer at schools. However, it is doubtful that seniors, who have no children in schools, would vote for school bond issues that would be repaid with taxes. Pulte/Del Webb/Sun City plan to construct a senior community, yet do not propose large-scale construction of low-income senior housing to support the needs of our local senior citizens.
I am concerned that our taxes will subsidize projects of wealthy developers. Unfortunately, we are already burdened with an enormous rate-increase for the sewer treatment upgrade, which will tremendously benefit corporate home builders.
I support growth, but it must be sensible. I would appreciate more businesses in Hollister so I could shop in town, and would like to see a significant increase of affordable homes and apartments to ease the shortage of affordable housing, where multiple families currently have to cram into expensive single family homes.
Managed, reasonable growth, with community input, makes sense. Measure S does not. I strongly encourage everyone to vote no on Measure S.
Joe Navarro
Hollister
