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No on property tax
for Oakland Zoo
I’m writing to oppose the imposition of a brand new property tax on Oakland residents. Oakland Zoo is proposing a brand new tax, regardless of the truth that they’re decreasing the variety of interpretive volunteers, in favor of paid staff. This unnecessarily will increase their value of doing enterprise and contributes to their fiscal shortfalls.
The Zoo restricts the variety of volunteers who can interpret on California Path as a result of they imagine their insurance coverage requires them to trace the situation of volunteers always – in order that they should have a radio anchor on the Path. That is not possible; nearly all insurance coverage for business institutions differentiates between staff and non-employees; insurance coverage is more likely to deal with volunteers (non-employees) the identical means they deal with company on the zoo, who can go to California Path anytime.
Please oppose the brand new property tax to assist the Oakland Zoo.
Louise Hayes-Sales space
Piedmont
Vote for Kaplan for
Alameda County board
Voters in Alameda County ought to elect Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan for supervisor to exchange the Honorable Wilma Chan.
Rebecca has the information and ability set essential to be an efficient and inventive chief at a time when residents of Alameda are dealing with crucial points impacting their high quality of life: The rise in homelessness, the rise in felony exercise, the dearth of reasonably priced housing and the unaccountability of route on the Santa Rita Jail facility in addition to the insufficient oversight within the Division of Social Providers.
Rebecca has demonstrated her capability to carry public servants accountable for failures to be safeguards of taxpayers’ cash whereas demanding that they carry out on the highest degree. She has introduced collectively state and federal officers to sort out these points with each assets and revolutionary options.
A vote for Rebecca Kaplan is a vote for efficient governance.
Eddie Dillard
Oakland
Make up your personal
thoughts on playing
We’re all presently being inundated with TV commercials each for and in opposition to Propositions 26 and 27. We’re urged to assist California tribes, treatment homelessness, present psychological well being and drug remedy providers, and so forth.
Each of those propositions are about playing, pure and easy. Proposition 26 is about permitting sports activities betting to be finished at native tribal casinos and another areas. Proposition 27 is about permitting all sports activities betting to change into authorized in California and obtainable on pc units (computer systems, telephones, iPads, and so forth).
Please don’t be fooled into believing Proposition 27 will magically resolve homelessness, drug habit, psychological sickness or the rest. It’s about playing — that’s all.
Personally, I’m very uninterested in being misled in regards to the goal of a proposition to change into regulation. Each are about legalizing playing. Please learn them and make your personal resolution about playing.
Moira Fry
San Leandro
Vote no on bringing
sports activities betting to state
Thomas Elias’ commentary “Large-time sports activities betting a secure wager to hit California” (Sept. 13) consists of this remark; “The healthiest response from voters can be to reject each measures, however given the pent-up demand for sports activities betting in California and voters’ prior approval of issues lengthy thought-about vices, that’s not more likely to occur.”
The large bucks being spent on advocacy of each propositions must be a transparent signal to voters that massive cash stands to be made no matter which proposition wins extra sure votes. The advocates of each 26 and 27 would have you ever imagine the opposite facet are crooks and their proposition will do good for all concerned.
Fellow voters, I strongly advocate a powerful no vote on each Propositions 26 and 27 this November.
Invoice Hansen
Fremont
State should make investments extra
in renewable vitality
I agree with Denise Kalm in her Letter to the Editor on Sept. 15 (“Time is now to construct up water, vitality provides,” Web page A6), that we have to drastically enhance water and vitality provides in California. Nevertheless, I strongly disagree as to the options.
