Letters: Ready for RCV | Deserve to know
Submit your letter to the editor by way of this type. Learn extra Letters to the Editor.
Santa Clara County
is prepared for RCV
Re: “New invoice may permit ranked alternative voting” (Web page B1, Might 11).
As the one who introduced the thought of utilizing ranked alternative voting (RCV) to the county’s Constitution Assessment Fee in 1997, I’m happy that we’re lastly making progress towards its implementation.
Your article does point out the error the Alameda County Registrar of Voters made in tabulating a current Oakland faculty board election final 12 months. Because of a Public Data Act request and a lawsuit by Oaklandside.org, the Dominion RCV guide grew to become publicly obtainable, and at its Might 8 assembly the Santa Clara County Residents’ Advisory Fee on Elections (CACE) established a committee to evaluate that guide, to ensure that no incorrect settings are made when RCV is finally applied by our registrar. (I’m a member of CACE and of that committee, however I don’t communicate for CACE.)
Our registrar and her workers are extraordinarily competent and can have the ability to implement RCV with out problem.
Steve Chessin
Mountain View
Taxpayers should know
who directed secrecy
Re: “Mercury Information sues San Jose over scandal involving firefighters” (Web page A1, Might 11).
San Jose taxpayers are entitled to know if the so-called disciplinary motion taken towards all of the firefighters who violated coverage and public belief had deductions from their paychecks for his or her actions.
That’s what ought to have occurred to all of them who participated on this poor judgment for the complete time they weren’t defending the general public. If not, why not? The actions had been on the general public’s dime. This was not on the dime of the chief, the mayor, town legal professional, or whoever is advising to not disclose the self-discipline taken.
The Mercury Information must also be asking for the identify of who directed the secrecy. That particular person will not be appearing like a public servant.
David Frizzell
San Jose
Suspensions can head
off greater issues
Re: “Don’t reduce suspensions with out instructing first” (Web page A6, Might 4).
In your Might 4 letters, you printed feedback from Steve Stavis on State Sen. Nancy Skinner’s Senate Invoice 294, which eliminates “willful defiance” as a trigger for scholar suspension from faculty. I agree with Stavis’ place, and, as a former faculty principal, additionally know that “willful defiance” can embody a variety of behaviors from a refusal to sit down down, to swearing at a instructor, to quite a lot of semi-violent or violent behaviors.
I’d agree that college suspension shouldn’t be overused or taken evenly. Nevertheless, to eradicate it utterly is a mistake. When used judiciously, it may stop critical disciplinary issues from escalating and changing into not solely unmanageable however doubtlessly harming a complete classroom.
Maybe Sen. Skinner may focus her non-suspension efforts on her legislative colleagues from Tennessee and Montana. They clearly may use it.
Jerry Krumbein
Palo Alto
Well being care advocacy
drives constructive outcomes
Advocacy for well being care in San Jose is essential to make sure residents’ well-being and entry to high quality medical providers. As one in every of California’s largest cities, San Jose faces distinctive well being care challenges that require energetic engagement and help.
Advocacy additionally performs a significant position in selling well being fairness and decreasing well being care disparities. It includes advocating for reasonably priced well being care choices, particularly for susceptible communities and underserved populations. By elevating consciousness about well being care points, advocating for coverage adjustments, and supporting initiatives that prioritize preventive care and early intervention, the general well being outcomes of San Jose residents might be improved.
Furthermore, well being care advocacy in San Jose can concentrate on selling innovation and technological developments in well being care supply. This consists of supporting the combination of telehealth providers, and digital and data-driven well being options.
By partaking in well being care advocacy, San Jose can construct a more healthy group that values and prioritizes the well-being of all its residents.
Minh Tran
San Jose
Pure fuel will ease
transition to electrical
Our eventual conversion to electrical energy will occur, however not for a very long time and the spending of billions to increase our electrical grid and billions extra to put in warmth pumps and electrical upgrades in houses.
In the meantime, we have to keep pure fuel use to warmth our houses. Batteries are far too expensive and there’s a worldwide scarcity of key components to make them. Utilizing the battery in your EV, for those who can afford one, will drain the battery to be used the subsequent day and scale back its life span.
Ed Kahl
Woodside
