To: Governor Gavin Newsom
Responsible Bonds
If a Bond is placed on the ballot for the voters of California, it MUST be clearly described. It must have a purpose with a time line to completion of the Bond's project and a budget that has a life span. It may have built in conditions for cost increases due to economic/natural disasters changes within the time frame (which must be clearly laid out for the voters) but no Bond should be speculative. No Bond should be an open door. If a Bond is for water infrastructure for example (levees, dams), then that project must be described in detail and monies from that Bond should not go to, say building discovery buildings for the water agencies.
Why is this important?
In California, voters are faced with voting on Bond Measures on the ballots. Many seem like very wonderful ideas but once voted into reality, the perimeters of those bonds of who and what really gets funded are 'gerrymandered'. Legislators find way to fund their pet projects instead funding what the voters of California thought they voted.