In case you missed it, the Los Angeles News Group printed an op-ed by BizFed CEO Tracy Rafter on Sunday urging leaders in Sacramento to immediately finish hammering out a water bond for the November ballot now that they’re back in session:
Legislature needs to ensure the future of California’s water supply, right now
by Tracy Rafter, Founding CEO, BizFed
Time is running out, and so is California’s water, as state lawmakers return to Sacramento after a July recess and resume efforts to craft a responsible and critically needed water bond for the November ballot.
Members of BizFed’s grassroots alliance have long ranked water sustainability and reliability among their top concerns. The state acknowledged the vital need for funding to overhaul our water system five years ago, when a bond measure was first certified for the 2010 ballot. But it was delayed to 2012. And then delayed again to this year. The June 26 statutory deadline to get a new water bond on the ballot came and went, and placeholder language bought legislators a few more weeks to negotiate. But ballot printing — and translation into nine other languages — is supposed to begin in August. There is no more time to tread water on this issue. [click here for the full article]
You may recall that, during the BizFed Institute’s June 4 NextUp Forum: Clean Water for Life and Business, diverse experts from business, government, academia, and environmental advocacy organizations all urged us to push Sacramento for an effective water bond now. LANG newspapers include the Los Angeles Daily News, the Long Beach Press-Telegram, the Torrance Daily Breeze, the Pasadena Star-News, the Whittier Daily News, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the San Bernardino Sun, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, and the Redlands Daily Facts.
