Tomorrow night council to discuss their sewer rate scam. Staff admits – that original sewer rate proposal was their way of getting existing users to pay forward for years and years of development.

15 Jun

Tomorrow night city council will revisit the sewer rate increase. I read the report, available here

https://chico-ca.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=1196&meta_id=103624

Here’s the problem – developers don’t want to pay their own way, they want existing neighborhoods to be stuck for their cost of providing whole new parts of town with sewer lines. Read this excerpt.

Sanitary Sewer Master Plan (SSMP) identifies all projects necessary to support buildout of the City per
the General Plan. If new development occurs and a new pipeline is installed to serve only that
development, then that financial responsibility is completely put on the new development. However, when a new development occurs that relies partially on existing sewer mains that do not have sufficient capacity, then that sewer main needs to be upsized. When this occurs, the existing users benefit from a brand-new pipe and are therefore responsible for a portion of the newly installed pipe cost. This is deemed “Sanitary Sewer Master Plan Projects – Existing User Contribution”.

So, when a developer wants to flop a new subdivision in your neighborhood, and the sewer main has to be upsized to provide for that new subdivision, existing users have to pay for it? Even though it would not have been necessary if not for that subdivision? Wow, a brand new pipe! For that they wanted to raise sewer rates by 150%. For developers.

But they hit the beehive with a stick this time – finally. People who threw the mailed ballot assessment that changed us to a “volumetric” rate base came out of the wood work to bitch about this new increase. So staff came up with some new suggestions. They admitted that they based that rate increase on the “assumption… that buildout will occur over the next 20 years.” Assumptions, assumptions – always making asses out of you and me! After the tar and feathers committee came out of nowhere they offer to “extend” their assumption to 40 years or just have it “removed completely”.

My dad would say, they just pulled that rate increase figure out of their ass-umptions.

Our council and staff are afraid of developers. They threaten that if they can’t get us to pay they will have to issue bonds (another way of getting us to pay).

If no fees are collected for this purpose, the risk is that a developer will propose a new development with
their share of sewer costs, and the City will not have funds available to support the existing user
contribution. In this case, the City could reimburse the developer or pursue debt financing to provide the
City’s existing user share of costs.

That original sewer rate proposal was their way of getting existing users to pay forward for years and years of development. We’re not paying the real cost of delivering our own water, or carrying away our sewage – we’re paying for the next wave of overdevelopment.

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Yes California elections are full of fraud. The Feds could help instead of standing by thumbing their noses at us.

8 Jun

It’s funny to hear the conservatives in Washington cluck about campaign improprieties in California – they blame mail-in ballots. I think that’s ignorant on their part. There’s a lot more wrong with California elections that has nothing to do with how the ballots are delivered.

It starts with voter registration. Our registration process here allows not only non-citizens to vote, but allows people to register without a real address. As one legislator pointed out on the morning news, California does not require any proof of citizenship, only a statement from the registrant that they are a legal citizen.

California also allows a person who claims to have no fixed address to register just about anywhere in the jurisdiction in which they want to vote – a street corner, a shelter, city hall. They can have their voting materials mailed to a PO Box. Without very strict oversight, these policies allow non-citizens to vote at addresses all over the state. That is fraud.

I’m sorry Pollyanna, but some people are bad and they lie. And people can also be stupid and not good at their jobs. It’s just too easy for the overseers to be crooked or incompetent, it’s a system that is set up for election fraud.

The conservatives at the federal legislature think mail-in ballots are ripe for fraud. They are accusing liberal California election officials using mail-in ballots as an excuse to hold up the count while they manufacture more ballots in their favor. Is that my fault? I mailed my ballot in and received a receipt via email on May 16. But the election office was not allowed to count it until election day.

I like mail in ballots and I think it would be easy to make sure they don’t hold up the election process. It is a fact that we have a lot of ballots here in California, it takes a long time to count millions of ballots. So we need a law that says the ballot has to be received, not just postmarked, on election day. And county clerks always complain about staff shortages. Maybe the feds could help us out with teams of official, impartial, trained ballot handlers.

The registration process should be the same whether or not a voter requests a mail-in ballot – you should have to present identification with your picture and street address when you register and sign your form with the same signature that’s on your ID. This could be done at the post office, the DMV, and other state and federal offices that serve the public. But it should be done in person, and it should be good as long as you have that valid ID. But then my mail-in ballot should be good with my signature as long as my ID is valid.

I don’t need the results overnight, I want them to be accurate. I think we need more federal oversight to achieve that.

Where did all those people go when they left Grant’s Pass?

25 May

I spent the weekend trying to catch up on agendas for various city meetings and general gossip. By “gossip” I mean, I try to remember to check on Rob Berry every now and then. Mr. Berry is good to go to the meetings, and he rolls out a pretty colorful and, I think, accurate account of these meetings. He also thinks I disagree with him alot but he would be surprised how often we are thinking exactly the same thing.

I read his recent post about attending a city council meeting yesterday, in which he described the scene Downtown as the usual open air insane asylum and drug den. And then my husband and I went out for a quick grocery trip. Here’s the thing Mr. Berry – it’s not just Downtown.

Council has an item on tomorrow night’s agenda, another discussion of how to “move forward” with the Warren Settlement, which ends in January. That’s not soon enough for some local business owners, who want enforcement NOW. Of course they plan to start in the “city center,” meaning Downtown.

It’s already begun – we’ve seen the camps moving from city owned property into the outer limits, along the waterways again, on commercial properties, sidewalks, in areas that have been routed a thousand times over the past 10 years. Mr. Berry talked about a tent we’ve seen, snuggled right up on the city parking lot, under a large old cedar, for weeks. He remarked on the full size propane BBQ the person had set up right next to the tent about a week ago. Yeah, I get it.

But my concern is where will they go? I already know they’re under bridges all over town. These are people with serious drug and mental health problems, they can’t just check into a hotel. They are the “service resistant,” and that will be the main topic of tomorrow night’s discussion. I’m sorry, I both resent and feel deeply sorry for these people, and it’s given me plenty of mental health issues of my own. I really resent the people who have turned these troubled individuals into a commodity.

Another problem that has been festering for years, and the city acts as though it just happened yesterday. The city has been taking millions of dollars from the state for years – Chico is a bonified shareholder in the Homeless Industrial Complex.

A lot of that money has gone to fancy new buildings at the Jesus Center, very comfortable air conditioned offices for very well compensated staffers. They completed 59 apartments onsite – I don’t know who lives in them or what the qualifications are for residency, but they are hardly spartan. They’re building a treatment center on Fair Street, we’ll see how that turns out. I worry that they spend too much money on salaries and sundries, and that limits the number of people they can actually serve.

The problem also remains, that as we take people off the street, more arrive in the various camps around town, and you see more on the streets in a state that could hardly be considered “human”. Is it because we provide these services at all? Should we have some system for sorting out those who “came from somewhere else” so we can serve more of our local community?

We need to answer those questions, because it seems every trip my husband and I make out into Chico we see more and more scarier transients. Yesterday, sitting in the truck to protect our tools while my husband picked up groceries at a local store, I was startled by a man who suddenly appeared in the sideview mirror. You might laugh if you saw me sitting in our truck, all eyeballs in the rearview and sideview mirrors, surveilling the parking lot like Barney Fife, but yesterday, and many times in past, I’ve noticed other people, usually men, standing watch on the pick-up truck.

This man’s head and face were so red, peeling from the sun, as he jerked along like a string puppet, a crazy look on his face, that my dog immediately stood up on the console. A man sitting nearby in his big black work truck was perched against his steering wheel, with the same look on his face as my dog.

Our walker was a big guy, and he was ranting about life in general, when he suddenly grabbed something out of his baggy jacket and threw it at the ground – a liter size plastic bottle of pink lemonade, a big bottle, it exploded all over the place. Crank makes people violent and strong, despite their emaciated appearance. Then he looked right at me and I got ready to roll up the windows and honk the horn, but he walked forward and angrily kicked the bottle. Then he headed for the busy street and I thought we were rid of him.

At that point my husband appeared at the driver’s window. He’d seen the guy from the store, so he was in a hurry to get out of the parking lot. The man had loaded three bottles of pink lemonade into his jacket and left the store without a peep from the checker. Just when I thought he was gone the fellow turned on his heel and started back toward the store. My husband got in the truck and we drove. I couldn’t help but think, a lot of retirees shop in the center, there’s a coffee shop and one of those hobby stores.

We’d been mowing lawns all morning so we headed for our favorite taco wagon. We saw a man standing at the window as my husband headed over to order our usual – a big-ass burrito to share. When he approached the window he stopped short. The man in front of him was jabbering at the gal in the wagon, and I noticed, the owner from the nearby store was approaching the rear door of her vehicle.

The other man said something to my husband and motioned him forward, while he approached the back window. He seemed to be trying to convince the woman of something, she was standing back from the window, and the man from the store was behind her. My husband turned on his heel and came back to our truck – no burrito today – the other guy had been covered with runny sores, he was babbling nonsense at the lady in the truck, and she had called the store owner to help her get rid of him. My husband said the guy was all over the order window, and it grossed him out so bad we went home for a bowl of ramen instead.

I was reminded of the Hepatitis A outbreak in several big west coast towns, including San Diego. In that case, a group of men who had come to town to see a concert contracted the disease from an sidewalk table at a restaurant.

Chico followed Grants Pass, Oregon, onto this path. When my husband and I visited Grants Path a few months ago, our hotel in Medford having raised their rates, we found the entire town to be somewhat DEAD. Like a bomb had gone off. The camps were gone, everything had been cleaned up, but life had not returned. Is that what’s ahead for Chico?

I believe there is a human solution to this problem, but so far, it’s been all about the money, and you know money makes people weird. And I have to ask myself – where did all those people go after they were kicked out of Grant’s Pass?

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Keep Squeakin’!

18 May

So, the squeaky wheel gets the grease? Both the Downtown “revitalization” and the sewer rate increase have been put on ice because the public made some racket?

The important thing to remember is, it’s election time, and our leaders get bigger ears whenever they feel that cold breeze across their butt cheeks. Unfortunately, some people think their money talks louder than the rights of the rest of us taxpayers.

I don’t like Stoble Coffee, it’s just Starbucks with a different name and a “local” owner. When I walked in for a quick whirl, the noise level was so intense – people were shouting over each other. But it seems popular enough, and they contribute sales tax to the bottom line. I don’t have to like every business Downtown. I’ve also seen a lot of “flash in the pan” businesses over the years, that have folded up suddenly and left town, for whatever reason. Lately it’s been bad – that’s part of what is killing Downtown – the old familiar places and faces are changing, and the new places don’t stick around long enough to make an impression.

So, the thought that these Happy Wanderers would try to screw my district representative out of a vote because she also owns a business Downtown is positively offensive. According to the FPPC, ” Recusal is not required if the council member’s interest is indistinguishable from the effect on the general public.” Reynolds has also been a voice for long-time business owners who won’t be able to sustain a long-term project.

This wouldn’t be a “revitalization” for many businesses, it would be the last nail in the coffin – following really bad decisions made during the “Shelter Crisis”, COVID and subsequent downturns. It would be devastating to see businesses that fought to survive those disasters, only to be put down by further bad decisions made by the city of Chico. And especially ironic because the of the millions and millions in funding the city received for those incidents. Like the $24 million they are seeking for bike lanes, on street dining/alcohol, and “traffic calming“.

Yes, the city and the Downtown Business Owners Association have a responsibility to keep up the streets and (arguably) the sidewalks, and especially the sewer. That is all the “revitalization” Downtown needs. Business owners should never have to worry that they will be cut off from the public for any reason. Harken back to the time the sidewalk collapsed in front of Kona’s, then located on Broadway – the city told the business owner he would have to replace the sidewalk and drainage at his own expense. Kona’s – a really popular sandwich shop/bakery for years, also supplying bread to other shops – ended up relocating to Nord.

But the word “revitalization” has been enlarged beyond basic necessities to encompass a total makeover, a remodeling, changing stuff that we’ve had for over 100 years, stuff that makes Downtown special to those of us who have been paying property taxes in this town before Mr. and Mrs. “Stoble” ever showed up on the horizon.

I knew the districts would be bad, and here’s another reason – if our rep has to recuse themself it means our entire district is disenfranchised. These people, all seven, make decisions that affect all of us, and we only get to vote for one of them?

So Reynolds has my vote, for better or worse, as many times as I’ve disagreed with her and called out her poor decisions, I’m with her on this one.

Thanks Kasey. Keep squeakin’ Chico.

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Get those ballots turned in

15 May

Well it was hard but I finally finished my ballot and took it to the post office the other day. I don’t think I’d mail after today. I signed up for updates regarding my ballot from the secretary of state’s office, and that has worked out for me the past couple of years. If I don’t get a confirmation by May 31, I can go to the county and ask for a provisional ballot.

I made notes in my info guide, just in case. That was a lot of work, reading up on all those people, but I tried to be scientific. But, my husband and I argued – should we vote for people who actually represent our values? Like the guy who says he’ll protect Prop 13? Or should we vote for people who we think are more likely to win? He agreed with me on the “lesser” offices, but we voted for different candidates for governor, we’ll see what rough beast comes round in November.

Frankly, the only candidate that has made me feel strongly about turning in my ballot is Gallagher. I think he’s actually made progress in controlling PG&E rates, and he’s worked hard at getting more support for fuel reduction. I think he needs to work harder on both of those. I think he could get a lot more federal funding for fuel reduction, since the feds own a lot of property here.

What troubles me about Gallagher are his connections with Chico political action committees and the Butte County Republican party. I don’t like big politicians who use their campaign money to meddle in local elections, especially when they don’t even live in the county they’re sticking their thumb in. Gallagher needs to run his own campaign and stay out of Chico and Butte County elections.

Here’s what I reminded myself as I filled in the bubble – it’s an important seat, and his Democratic challengers are terrible, neither is qualified for the job. Worst of all, they’re engaged in a nasty little shit-fight between themselves, neither of them has much to say besides generalizations about the problems that are really facing the voters.

Whatever you choose to do, I’d get that ballot in soon.

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Election 2026: Wow, so many choices, mostly bad – have you ever been to a crap shoot?

11 May

I’ve had my voter information guide and my ballot for days, and I’m still shaking my head. When I visited a friend of mine two days ago she flipped her ballot out and laughed, “what the hell am I supposed to do with this?”

Unfortunately, most of my friends are very liberal, and I value their friendship more than politics, so I just shook my head and laughed back. One of my friends still has her Harris/Walz sign in her yard, I really want to kick it, but I just smile and ask about “things”. After the election, we all have to live in the real world together.

I have no answer for her anyway. Just over two weeks until the election and we are faced with all these names, strangers – some of whom do not even come up except on the ballot. How are we supposed to educate ourselves before we vote?

I started to read the “information guide,” but I found that pretty fruitless. For one thing, a lot of the candidates opted out of the guide, because they didn’t want to agree to the spending limits.

Whatever you do, don’t turn on the tv or look at social media, it’s just plain ugly.

I’d say the easiest way to approach this mess is the process of elimination. For one thing, if I can’t find anything on a candidate, they’re out. Frankly, this time, Democrats are out, period. And I’m holding my nose while I vote for some of the Republicans. People who take money from the agencies over which they are supposed to be watching, are out. Some of the candidates say things in their statements that are offensive to me – they’re out.

One useful thing the info guide tells us is where the money is coming from. Candidates who take money from the agencies over which they are supposed to be watching, are out – the insurance commissioner, for example, is supposed to be looking out for the customers, not the insurance companies. And so on.

The problem is, there is very little information to go on, aside from their statements. It’s a crap shoot.

In my experience, shooting at crap, usually means, crap everywhere.

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Two important items on tomorrow night’s agenda, related to your toilet and water use habits.

4 May

Busy busy busy – just got a look at tomorrow night’s council agenda. There are interesting items, but right now I think the most important item on the agenda is the discussion about reconsidering the sewer rate hike.

Here’s the agenda – https://chico-ca.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=1193

At the April 7, 2026 Council meeting, under Reports and Communications, due to being on the prevailing side of the action, Vice Mayor Bennett requested a reconsideration of March 17, 2026 Agenda Item 5.1. related to the Sewer Enterprise Study proposing a five-year sewer rate adjustment, where “Option 1” was selected in a 4-3 vote, with O’Brien, van Overbeek, and Reynolds opposed.

Council voted 5-2, (with Goldstein and Hawley opposed) to allow for the reconsideration of this item. At this meeting, the Council will take up this matter with the original staff report for the item attached for information. Recommendation: The City Clerk recommends that Council hear the reconsideration of this item and provide direction, if any.

I guess you remember how pissed off everybody was with Option 1 – a 180 percent increase in the first year. I don’t know how many sewer customers know the city also switched to a “volumetric” system –

Volumetric Calculation: The volumetric portion of the bill is calculated based on water consumption during winter months (December through March), when outdoor irrigation is lowest.

Yes, they charge you for water you already paid Cal Water for. They made that switch with that mailed ballot assessment scam they pulled a few years back. And that leads us to another interesting item on the agenda.

Item 5.1 – RESOLUTION ADOPTING PROCEDURES FOR THE CONDUCT OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MAJORITY PROTEST PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO PROPOSED INCREASES TO THE CITY’S PROPERTY RELATED CHARGES AND ASSESSMENTS AND FOR OBJECTIONS PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE SECTIONS 53759.1 AND 53759.2 – Continued from 4/7/26 and 4/21/26 Council Meetings

This is about that mailed ballot by which they jacked our sewer rates in the first place – it was shady, and they know it, and now the state law has changed so they have to talk about it. The city used Prop 218, which unfortunately did not set any standards by which they could do it.

Proposition 218 establishes procedural and substantive requirements for local agencies when imposing or increasing property-related fees and charges, including requirements for mailed notice, public hearings, and the opportunity for property owners to submit written protests. While Proposition 218 provides the general framework, it does not give detailed procedures for administering public hearings or addressing substantive challenges to proposed rates.

They mailed out what looked like JUNK MAIL, with no advanced media notice or detailed instructions for ratepayers to participate. The worst thing was the appearance of the notice – there was no ballot. They expected people to write their “protest” down on a piece of paper and either mail it (so sketchy), or appear at the meeting with that written notice in hand. No emails, you had to write it down in your own words and get it physically into the hands of the same clerk who sat there and let the whole thing happen. (No Debbie, I don’t trust you.…)

So, as far as I concerned, they need to revisit that volumetric charge bullshit. What do you think?

At any rate (pun intended) it’s time to be vocal in your opinion about the sewer rate increase and the way in which they have gone about it. The meeting is tomorrow night, that gives you plenty of time to put it into an email to your city reprobate.

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The Downtown remodel conversation has taken an interesting turn

29 Apr

The conversation about the Downtown sewer job and proposed remodel has finally turned around. I was frankly shocked when Mayor Kasey Reynolds closed the meeting last week after council failed to come together on any one of the proposals.

Watching the meeting on the city website, and then again watching the clip on the local news, I was also shocked but not surprised to see riff-raff behavior in the chambers. Some people think they can get their way by bullying others, and oftentimes it works. When you really care about something you need to learn to deal with bullies without bullying. You ignore them, and you stand by your beliefs.

I contacted Reynolds, and she assured me that she is also leaning toward a simple and realistic plan to fix the sewers and return Downtown streets to “what we’ve known”. She cited fiscal concerns, and indicated that a lot of the bicycle bullshit is about chasing funding “from Sacramento“. Unfortunately, at least half of that taxpayer based funding goes to city salaries and pensions, while only “43% to 50% of the total project budget directly covers labor and materials (known as hard costs), based on studies of multi-family housing projects and general construction breakdowns…”

Some council members seem to think money grows on trees, not out of the hard work of taxpayers. They won’t acknowledge what their little pet projects do to the cost of living in our town. The other problem with the Sacramento funding is that is requires a lot of matching funds from city coffers.

We all watched the 20th Street bicycle/pedestrian bridge go over budget year after year, finally costing over $23 million. $1 million of that came from the city of Chico – from the Fire Victims Trust Fund, along with local developer fees and transportation funds. Money that should have gone toward other uses that have been largely neglected.

How often do you think you will use that bridge? See any fire victims up there? How are the streets in your part of town? Ever wonder why the price of housing keeps going up-up-up? Gotta watch the bouncing ball Folks.

So I’m watching this conversation, hoping that the vocal minority will not get their way.

And I was also somewhat relieved by the show of leadership from Kasey Reynolds. Yes, I’ve complained about Reynolds’ past actions, I haven’t agreed with her very many times. I’m disgusted with the sewer rate increase and I believe they should take up Bennett’s request for another vote. But I’m with her on the Downtown sewer job.

My husband reminds me that they were going to do a traffic circle there at Bidwell Mansion, for the same kind of state funding, but public outcry changed the vote of one council member and that little boondoggle went away.

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Emily Martin: “A 200% [sewer rate ] increase in five years is not responsible governance; it is the result of long-delayed decisions, now shifted abruptly onto residents.”

15 Apr

Well, Wolcott finally printed my response to Bill Smith, regarding public salaries and where to find out more info. The more people who know the truth, the closer we are to a real conversation about public employee salaries and benefits, and the consequences of “kicking the can down the road“.

Speaking of the can being kicked down the road, Smith also mentioned the sewer rate increase. A can, a stinking can, that has been kicked around for probably 50 years or more. They’ve known the pipes were old, and leaking, leaking POOP, but they just kept kicking.

Anybody remember Chico City Council member Colleen Jarvis? Before she died of cancer in 2004, I sat in on a meeting in which she and other former council members Dan Nguyen-Tan, and Scott Gruendl discussed the last sewer rate hike – from around $25 a month to $45 a month. Jarvis wanted to be straight with the public, do the whole thing up front, tell everybody the truth. DN-T and SG both wanted to phase it in – they were a couple of total pussies, they were afraid of the public reaction. Council voted for the phase-in, meaning the sewer fund, already in trouble, would fall farther and farther behind. Fast forward today – there are still 100+ year old pipes running under Downtown and the older parts of the city, and I’ll guess they don’t even have the money to hire a consultant.

This can has been kicked around for years, without much public scrutiny. Now this sewer rate increase has finally wakened the mob – I’ll tell you what, you don’t mess with people’s toilets. When I picked up Sunday’s paper, I noticed a letter that echoed my thoughts, from a lady named Emily Martin.

“A 200% increase in five years is not responsible governance; it is the result of long-delayed decisions, now shifted abruptly onto residents.” Yup, can kicking. And then, the handing of the bag, to the taxpayers, who get left holding it.

What about Measure H? Council member Addison Winslow says that money can’t be used, because it’s General Fund money. He says not everybody uses the sewer, so the city can’t use GF money to fix the sewer. What an idiot – or does he think we’re all idiots? Martin puts him right. “That argument falls apart, even under basic scrutiny,” she responds. “We all fund services we don’t directly use…” including schools, roads, and emergency services.

Council also makes the rules for the spending of city money, without any scrutiny from the public.

She concludes, “Chico deserves a more transparent approach that reflects shared benefits and shared responsibility.” Yes, that would be nice – instead we got a mailed ballot that was deceptively printed to look like JUNK MAIL (thanks for looking out for us City Clerk Debbie Presson!), and failure to submit a written letter of protest was marked as a YES vote. Winslow sat in on that decision, a sham ballot that resulted in a FOREVER change to the rate mechanism. Without any future public vote, they can raise the sewer rate whenever they want, for whatever reason they want.

Martin echoes a letter I sent weeks ago – families and businesses are already struggling, this is just another nail in the coffin of our local economy. “This kind of increase will force real cuts to essentials and to the local businesses that keep Chico thriving.” On that note, I’m about to head for Oregon, to buy my taxable essentials. My family does little to no taxable shopping in Chico, although we did have our tires that we bought in Oregon rotated at a Chico shop and then treated ourselves to an oil change for the trip. But I realize, I’m retired, and my kid lives in Oregon – this isn’t feasible for working families. It would suck to be a family with kids in this town, unless you’re one of the privileged teat suckers known as “public servants“.

Emily, the only way to turn this decision back is to vote out the bad actors. Reynolds, Winslow and Van Overbeek are up, and they need to be turned out, like that carton of milk on the back shelf of your fridge.

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City to discuss the procedures for the conduct of public hearings and majority protest proceedings relating to proposed rate increases and assessments – they want to make it harder for us to protest rate increases

1 Apr
https://chico-ca.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=1191&meta_id=102016

Remember the frustrating process by which the city changed the rate mechanism on sewer charges? So they could raise the rates anytime they wanted?

Sewer rate increase hearing set for Tuesday (1/17/23) – if you haven’t mailed your protest get it in soon or attend the hearing

Well next week Council will discuss a change that will further restrict your right to have any voice in these rate increases – they are changing the procedure to eliminate your right to sue if you were left out of the rate protest. Meaning, if you threw that ballot out thinking it was junk mail, or didn’t get around to sending it in time, didn’t understand it, didn’t hear about it, etc, you lose your right to protest further rate increases.

Read the staff report, these people want you out of this process.

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