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Payments pose risk to
Bay Space water provide
Re: “California must cease wasteful water diversions” (Web page A8, April 16).
Your editorial in favor of strengthening enforcement of water rights raised vital factors. Dashing enforcement actions and rising fines towards unlawful water diverters are acceptable actions and would largely clear up the acknowledged drawback.
Nevertheless, AB 460 and AB 1337 payments go a lot additional and would create new powers for the state Water Sources Management Board to withhold authorized diversions of water utilized by 2.7 million Bay Space residents throughout 4 counties with out due course of. This represents a drastic departure from long-standing water rights legislation and will scale back the water obtainable for the area to fulfill its state-mandated housing manufacturing targets.
The Bay Space Council wholeheartedly helps cracking down on unlawful diversions, however lawmakers ought to decide to defending authorized water use and resist actions that may jeopardize the Bay Space’s water safety.
Adrian Covert
Bay Space Council
San Francisco
Faculties want higher plan
than suspension ban
Re: “Invoice seeks to make booting college students from class more durable” (Web page B1, April 30)
Yearly I taught center faculty I had the identical quandary: Do I take educating time from 29 college students to present all my consideration to the one who’s appearing out, or do I take away the one so the remainder are taught within the 30-40 minute class interval? I selected to do my job, educating the topic. After all, I met with dad and mom and directors to seek out options so the scholar could be at school. However I used to be not employed nor educated to be a counselor, social employee or nurse.
A greater resolution could be a classroom with a educated counselor or social employee the place a disruptor might go to obtain the providers they want at that second. State Sen. Nancy Skinner’s invoice wants work — after she’s made lesson plans and spent every week in a classroom, alone.
Nancy Thornton
Harmony
Carry household enjoyable to
Jack London Sq.
Suggestion: How about putting in a merry-go-round and Ferris wheel combo at Oakland’s Jack London Sq.? It will be rather more enjoyable than these unlawful auto sideshows, and much safer, too.
Adults and children alike would find it irresistible. It will be an excellent vacationer draw, I believe, one thing benefiting each native companies and most people.
Mayor Thao and Metropolis Council, your name.
Eric Mills
Oakland
Debt will not be the problem
for GOP gamesmanship
Re: “Home GOP passes debt invoice; Biden will probably veto” (Web page A4, April 27).
I’m exasperated that Home management is threatening to tank our economic system to extract devastating funds cuts that concentrate on individuals experiencing poverty.
