August 26th, 2008
8/26/2008
As someone in Sacramento told me, deadlines mean nothing to our legislature.. Schwarzenegger has just announced that he will sign AB-3034, well past the deadline imposed by the Secretary of State.
This late signing may trigger lawsuits, we shall have to see.
August 26th, 2008
Prop 1 would allow a station at Los Banos, thus allowing development, urban sprawl, on this segment of the route. An article in the NY Times titled “In the Central Valley, the Ruins of the Housing Bust” has a section that reads:
“In the midst of all the wreckage caused by the real estate boom and bust, some think that they have found a way forward: build more houses, thousands and thousands of them.
On the western edge of Merced County, near the Diablo Range that separates the Central Valley from the Pacific Coast, is a stretch of empty land that a coalition of landowners has wanted to build on ...
August 22nd, 2008
An article in the Fresno Bee states:
Sunday is the real deadline for enacting AB 3034, a bill aimed at improving the $9.9 billion high-speed rail bond on the Nov. 4 ballot. This is according to a memo sent this week from the High Speed Rail Authority staff to board members and rail supporters.
The last “deadline” set by the Secretary of State was Aug. 16, though lawmakers suspected there was wiggle room. Now, there is apparently no more flexibility.
The Secretary of State’s office “told us that August 24th (Sunday) is the true deadline for enacting AB ...
August 21st, 2008
Rod Diridon keeps telling everyone, Prop 1 “won’t raise your taxes”. What non-sense. The interest costs and principal repayments will come from the General Fund of the State. The source of those funds is through the taxes we pay.
Mark Paul in writes in an article in the LA Times California’s ballot billions
“No matter what budget Sacramento comes up with, California voters will probably increase the deficit in 10 weeks.”
“California has two budgets. One is ...
August 15th, 2008
In a press release the California Rail Foundation addresses problems with the EIR for the California High Speed Rail project, and gives some details on the CEQA petition.
August 14th, 2008
Reported in an article from the AP.
Lawmakers pass changes to high-speed rail measure
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 08/13/2008 06:12:23 PM PDT
SACRAMENTO—The state Assembly has approved a bill increasing financial accountability in the high-speed rail measure that is on California’s November ballot.
Lawmakers will not send the bill immediately to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger because he has pledged to veto every bill until legislators pass a budget.
If a Saturday deadline passes without the bill being signed into law, the new wording will not be included in the ...
August 11th, 2008
The State Assembly did not meet today Monday 8/11/08.
This was supposedly the deadline that had to be met for AB-3034 to pass through the full Assembly and get the Governor’s signature in order to get on the Nov. 2008 Ballot.
Whether this really kills AB-3034 is not absolutely certain. We have been told that deadlines sometimes mean very little in Sacramento.
August 9th, 2008
Several parties today filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate the EIR of the proposed HSR project headed by the California High Speed Rail Autority.
The petition can be viewed here for those interested in the legal paperwork.
Those joining in the suit are:
Planning and Conservation League (PCL)
Town of Atherton
City of Menlo Park
Bayrail Alliance
Transportation Solutions Defense and Education Fund (TRANSDEF)
August 8th, 2008
An article in the San Mateo Daily News.
Noted by Stuart Flashman the attorney for the lawsuit:
Those disparate interests have joined forces in the lawsuit, which Attorney Stuart Flashman said he plans to file today in Sacramento County Superior Court.
“A lot of the concern is that the (authority’s) board wasn’t given accurate information about the relative impacts of the two alignments,” Flashman said. “The staff of the high speed rail authority, I don’t know if I’d say they cooked the books, but they tilted things very strongly to make it look like ...
August 7th, 2008
AB-3034, the amendment to Prop 1 was approved today in the California State Senate by a vote of 27 -10. It now goes back to the Assembly for attempted passage there.
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