“It is because of Berkeley’s incompetent management that this measure is on the ballot. Vote NO, a billion times no!”
In a stinging critique of ballot Measure L, the Green Party has made a “no, no, no” recommendation in its Voter Guide.
The Green Party, like many others across the political spectrum, recognizes that we need “targeted” and financially sound solutions to address Berkeley’s infrastructure crisis. As WOM Berkeley has suggested, the Green Party agrees that taking a 48 year loan to repair potholes does “not make logical sense.”
The party goes further and writes, “It is a city’s duty to repair streets and infrastructure, which [in Berkeley’s case] have been neglected for years.” City Council has engaged in infrastructure benign neglect [or “incompetent management”] and now wants residents to provide a $650 million bail out. The problem is (1) there is no guarantee any infrastructure will be repaired and (2) they have offered no reforms to the system that created this problem in the first place. For example, City Council has not committed sufficient General Fund expenditures to maintaining our city.
WOM Berkeley and the Green Party share a common vision for targeted, sound and sustainable planning and Measure L provides neither. Even worse, it kicks the can down the road to our grandchildren to pay for problems of the past.
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