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Ron Green continues to bring up the point that Measure N forces many medical marijuana patients to grow their medicine indoors.
He cites increased power costs as one of the problems and has mentioned “thousands of dollars” in past letters yet 1,200 watts is the same amount of power required to run two or three plasma TVs, which is clearly not excessive.
Ron Green and the local chapter of the Sierra Club are concerned with high humidity associated with indoor grows, causing mold and mildew growth within the home.
Yet almost everyone I know grows some sort of plants in their home and I have never heard or seen problems with humidity or mold growth.
Why should a few marijuana plants grown for personal use be any different?
If the whole house is turned into a greenhouse to grow marijuana I can understand humidity problems, but that would be a for profit grow, not for personal medical use.
In addition, I would imagine that growing indoors would actually benefit a patient in that instead of being limited to one crop a year, the plants could be grown year round resulting in a more consistent supply of medicine.
Ron Green also loves to call Measure N a “draconian” ordinance as if Lake County is being unreasonable and is way out of whack with the rest of the state.
What Ron Green and the anti-N folks don’t want the rest of us to know is that there are already over 35 cities/towns and four counties that have ordinances banning outdoor cultivation of marijuana.
Furthermore, there are a few that ban indoor and outdoor cultivation of marijuana.
Two of the cities with bans are right next door to us, Ukiah and Willits.
Ukiah initially had an ordinance that allowed outdoor cultivation, but after a few years of the same issues that we have been experiencing here in Lake County, they had to do an about face and ban the outdoor growing of marijuana.
I urge everyone to think about it. If a couple of cities in Mendocino County were forced to ban outdoor cultivation within their boundaries because of the problems associated with grows, why should we think Lake County will be any different?
Vote yes on Measure N.
Dave Rosenthal lives in Middletown, Calif.
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Dear HVL Board of Directors:
We are disappointed and disturbed that the board has chosen to meet only in executive session at the May 22 meeting, thus denying community members our ability to access and address the board publicly and have our concerns heard in an open forum.
Therefore, in order to reestablish trust in our community, and to promote the democratic process that is guaranteed to us by Davis-Stirling, as well as state and federal law, and our own CC&Rs, we make the following four basic requests, though requests seems too weak a word because these are clearly essential to the healthy functioning of our community, so demands is perhaps a better word in that sense.
1. That the HVL Board of Directors formally apologize to Director Steve Greenberg for the unwarranted and heavy-handed attack against him by the board through its legal counsel on May 2 in its by-now infamous "Notification of Breach of Fiduciary Obligations." Besides the fact that the actual handling of the notification charging Director Greenberg was a comedy of errors that violated virtually all the accepted procedures for such cases, and that the charges against him were obviously trumped-up and of no validity, it is clear that this disgraceful action was intended to have a chilling effect on the entire community, and to use fear and the threat of unsubstantiated charges to stifle and repress views that differ from those of the majority of the board. This cannot be allowed in our community.
2. That the HVL Board of Directors make a formal positive commitment to the principle that the contemplated large-scale rebuild/renovation projects for the Hartmann Complex and the Community Center do require and justify a vote by the membership of the community, and cannot be implemented by the board without such a vote. This is clearly stipulated by both Davis-Stirling as well as our CCRs. We have been waiting long enough for this, and the continued refusal by the board to take this basic step seems to indicate an anti-democratic attitude that borders on being not just unlawful and unethical, but recklessly neglectful of its fiduciary responsibilities to the community.
3. That the HVL Board of Directors cancel its contract with former GM Bill Chapman. Granting this no-bid contract to Mr. Chapman flies in the face of accepted practice, and seems to be a particularly egregious and high-handed example of nepotism used to undermine not just the democratic process here in HVL, but also to forward an agenda to ram through expensive and unwarranted versions of the Hartmann Complex without community cooperation, input, and agreement. The arguments used by Directors Cameron, Waite and others to justify granting Mr. Chapman the contract in fact centered around how much more quickly he could get the job done, which seems to deliberately contradict a more democratic approach to first gather community input, which hasn't been sufficiently done. We have a new general manager who is certainly experienced and trained in these matters and should be given the opportunity to facilitate the process.
4. That the HVL Views, the only official publication serving our community, become more democratic. As it stands, the HVL Views is little more than a propaganda-spewing machine in the hands of whatever clique controls the board. There is no "letters to the editor" section or section where commentary is solicited or allowed that might question the official party line of the current board. It would be much healthier for our community to have the HVL Views be a forum of discussion of the questions, opportunities, and issues that we as a community are dealing with, rather than a completely one-sided organ that offers no alternative views. Otherwise, the name should be changed to the HVL View.
Thanks for your efforts and consideration.
Sincerely,
Dr. Will Tuttle
Madeleine Tuttle
Ed Carver
Barbara Carver
Ronald Spitzer
Rosalie Spitzer
Stephanie Pahwah
Ashish Pahwah
Rosalie Cooke
Mike Gingerich
Aram Theusen
Lisa Kaplan
Paul Russo
Kay Lopez
Michele Taylor
Jack Hewitt
Sue Story
(All of the individuals listed above are residents of Hidden Valley Lake, Calif.)
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Political stories today are often disheartening. However, this time, we have an opportunity to elect a person who has proven he works for the common good, a person who has consistently been a leader with courage and integrity.
Davis Mayor Joe Krovoza is running for the Fourth Assembly District.
It is hard to imagine a person who has better credentials to face the problems facing our state.
In his teens, Joe became an Eagle Scout. He is a sharp lawyer who studied water law at UC Davis. He used his knowledge of water law to protect our local creek and get 50 percent more water that attracted salmon back to an historical run. Then he worked with groups on amazing riparian restoration of the creek.
He helped build the UC Davis campus Institute of Transportation Studies and its Energy Efficiency Center.
His 17 years of experience in developing clean transportation and energy-efficient projects at UC Davis is essential as California grows and with it, traffic problems.
As mayor of Davis, he took on huge budget challenges and put Davis in a good place by being courageous about ruffling feathers to get the job done.
Compare his breadth of experience side by side with other candidates. There is no comparison. Mr. Dodd has deep pockets and switched parties. We have Mr. Wolk who wishes to leave his city council term before his term ends, with little experience and run on State Senator Wolk's name.
It is critical with our water, fiscal, environmental, transportation and growth issues to have a person with experience who walks the walk.
Joe has proven to be a public servant who puts community first and is extraordinarily civil and articulate, even with people of divergent views. We need him.
Please vote for Joe Krovoza on June 3.
Jean Jackman lives in Davis, Calif.
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In December of 2013 we approached the Board of Supervisors stating that we wanted to help create an medical marijuana cultivation ordinance that would be fair and effective, rather than fight them in the courts or by referendum. We were ignored. This is now Measure N. Measure N is short-sighted, unfair, unfunded and unenforceable.
Measure N is bad policy on so many levels. Due to the fact that the supervisors refused to have a committee or work directly with its constituents to create real solutions, we have taken democracy into our own hands. Because of our referendum, the supervisors have placed Measure N on the June ballot for the people of Lake County to decide, and we are confident that the people will vote no on Measure N.
Since the state of California has failed to pass regulations effectuating Proposition 215, which was passed in 1996, Lake County and other local jurisdictions have been left to pass their own medical marijuana regulations. In Lake County we have been attempting to create a cannabis cultivation ordinance that will be effective and fair.
In 2012, there was a broad-based committee formed by the Board of Supervisors with the goal of creating an ordinance that would preserve the right for patients to cultivate their own medicine, while maintaining a high standard of public health and safety.
But this committee was unwisely disbanded by the supervisors, when its work was nearly complete. Supervisor Farrington decided to quit this committee prior to a lawsuit being filed. Supervisors Rushing and Smith had encouraged Supervisor Farrington to continue on the committee, but to no avail.
In fact, that committee’s interim recommendations were largely adopted in the current ordinance which is still in effect, but were totally ignored in Measure N.
Finally, we recognized that our job would not be complete if we just defeated Measure N. We saw the need to offer a viable, financially sound and forward-thinking solution. We retained counsel to write a sound and fair regulatory ordinance, with a funding mechanism and strict environmental controls. It is known as the Medical Marijuana Control Act and is scheduled to be on the November ballot for the people of Lake County to vote on.
Alternatively, the supervisors can simply adopt the Medical Marijuana Control Act as the permanent ordinance for Lake County once the signatures are verified. There is an alternative to creating criminals out of patients for growing a handful of plants.
Vote no on Measure N on June 3! And then let’s implement regulations that work for everyone!
Daniel McLean of Lower Lake, Calif., is campaign coordinator for the No on Measure N campaign.
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