[CRNMC] CRNMC - IMPORTANT! change sec.4 (a) of Ordinance?

[Tim Rice]

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On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, karinajoy wrote:

> Sisters and Brothers,
> 
> A small but crucially significant problem regarding our Ordinance has 
> arisen. It can be solved if we act now. It will cause some delay, but it 
> is better we fix the problem now than ignore it and regret it later.
> 
> It has to do with the ENFORCEMENT of the Ordinance. In other words, we 
> need to give our Ordinance the proper teeth with which a judge MUST (not 
> just MAY) enforce the Ordinance and thus dissuade those who would break 
> the law.

How much delay? 20 days?
Don't we have a hard deadline on getting signatures?

It is easy to get focused on the deatils, and it is important to
look at the larger picture. This Ordinance is actually quite radical
compared to what has come before in our lifetimes. It is more important
to get a community rights based ordanance passed than it is to have
the ordanance be the be all and end all of Ordinances. That jumpstarts
the curtural shift to "the people in this community make the desision
on what happens in this community".
Could the enforcement be improved? Sure. The thing is, we need to also
look at a potential change now thwough the lense of "will the change
enhance the chances of the Ordinance being passed?"

[snip]

> On a second issue:
> Sec. 4 (b) shall we strike out "or any resident of the County " and later
> "or the resident..." ?????
>
> Bus and Prof Code 17200 recently took away the citizen's right to take 
> enforcement action.  Ben felt we should claim this right anyway, since 
> it's just another slow erosion of our rights. But Barry thinks we 
> shouldn't risk the ordinance over this.  So, should we leave it in or 
> take it out?

Remember, we are writing defining law. This is a rights based Ordinance.
We have a right to defend the place we live.  Keep 4b.

> There will be a cost. We'll have to pay the $200 fee again (which is 
> refunded when we qualify for the ballot). But we'll forfeit the first 
> $200. And there will be some delay. But since I doubt it will change the 
> title or summary, it could be a fast turnaround.
> 
> Let's do this right. A little additional cost, a little delay. The hurry 
> isn't as great as the need to get it right and have a strong ordinance.

How little delay? Less that a week?
I'd really like to hear CELDF's opinion on the enforcement issue.

> So shall we make the change to 4a?  and keep or delete citizen 
> enforcement in 4b?
> 
> Karina
> 
> 
> 

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