Mountain Views News          Saturday, October 4, 2014

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2014

SECTION B

AROUND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY

TESLA MOTORS CHIEF DESIGNER RECOGNIZED FOR 
2014 CALIFORNIA AIR QUALITY AWARD

STAY INFORMED - NOVEMBER 4th IS ELECTION DAY

PROP. 1: WATER BOND FUNDING FOR WATER QUALITY, SUPPLY, 
TREATMENT, AND STORAGE PROJECTS. 

Authorizes $7.12 billion in general obligation bonds for various water supply infrastructure projects. 
*Support: $1,999,600 raised in total Opposition: $40,000 raised in total Total: $2,039,600

ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF PROPOSITION 1

YES ON PROPOSITION 1 ENSURES A RELIABLE WATER SUPPLY FOR FARMS AND BUSINESSES 
DURING SEVERE DROUGHT—PROTECTING BOTH THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 
California is in a severe, multi-year drought and has an aging water infrastructure. That is why Republicans 
and Democrats and leaders from all over California Came together in nearly unanimous fashion to place this 
fiscally responsible measure on the ballot.

YES ON 1 SUPPORTS A COMPREHENSIVE STATE WATER PLAN

• Provides safe drinking water for all communities 

• Expands water storage capacity • Ensures that our farms and businesses get the water they need during 

 dry years 

• Manages and prepares for droughts • Invests in water conservation, recycling and improved local water 

 supplies 

• Increases flood protection 

• Funds groundwater cleanup 

• Cleans up polluted rivers and streams • Restores the environment for fish and wildlife

YES ON 1 IS FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE Proposition 1 will not raise taxes. It is a no-frills investment in 
critical projects that doesn’t break the bank—it even reallocates money from unused bonds to make better 
use of the money.

YES ON 1 GROWS CALIFORNIA’S ECONOMY California’s economy depends on a reliable water 
supply. Proposition 1 secures our water future, keeps our family farms and businesses productive, and puts 
Californians to work building the new facilities we need to store, deliver, and treat water.

YES ON 1 SAFEGUARDS OUR EXISTING WATER SUPPLIES Proposition 1 will clean up our 
contaminated groundwater which serves as a critical buffer against drought by providing additional water in 
years when there is not enough rainfall or snow. 

Proposition 1 expands water recycling and efficiency improvements making the best use of our existing 
supplies.

Proposition 1 provides funding for clean drinking water in communities where water is contaminated.

YES ON 1 STORES WATER WHEN WE HAVE IT Proposition 1 invests in new water storage increasing 
the amount of water that can be stored during wet years for the dry years that will continue to challenge 
California.

YES ON 1 PROTECTS THE ENVIRONMENT Proposition 1 protects California’s rivers, lakes, and 
streams from pollution and contamination and provides for the restoration of our fish and wildlife 
resources.

PROPOSITION 1 CONTAINS STRICT ACCOUNTABILITY REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING ANNUAL 
AUDITS, OVERSIGHT AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE TO ENSURE THE MONEY IS PROPERLY SPENT.

YES ON 1—Supported by REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS, FARMERS, LOCAL WATER SUPPLIERS, 
CONSERVATION GROUPS, BUSINESS, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS

INCLUDING:

• United States Senator Dianne Feinstein • United States Senator Barbara Boxer 

• Audubon California • California Chamber of Commerce 

• Delta Counties Coalition • Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce 

• Ducks Unlimited • American Rivers 

• Silicon Valley Leadership Group • Friant Water Authority 

• San Diego Water Authority • Metropolitan Water District of So. Ca.

• Natural Resources Defense Council • Northern California Water Association 

• State Building and Construction 

 Trades Council of California • Association of California Water Agencies 

• Fresno Irrigation District • Western Growers

 Edmund G. Brown Jr., Governor Paul Wenger, President

 California Farm Bureau Federation Mike Sweeney, California Director

 The Nature Conservancy

ARGUMENT AGAINST PROPOSITION 1 

While there are many good things in Proposition 1: water conservation, efficiency reuse and recycling as well 
as restoration of our watersheds, the serious flaws outweigh the benefits to the people of California.

The water bond passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor has many attractive elements, but at 
the end of the day, this bond measure is bad news for the people of California.

Proposition 1 wrongly focuses on building more dams. More than a third of the $7.5 billion total is 
Earmarked for surface storage, which almost certainly will mean new dams—increasing pressure to over-
pump and divert more water from Northern California rivers including the Trinity, the Klamath, and

Sacramento rivers. This places them at great risk at a time when a severe and prolonged drought has 
significantly reduced existing snow packs.

Furthermore, the $2.7 billion for speculative new dams will not produce new water. All the most productive 
and cost-effective dam sites in California have already been developed. Proposition 1’s new dam projects 
increase California’s total water supply by as little as 1%, while costing nearly $9 billion to build. These dams

would not even be usable for decades.

In a major historic departure for water storage projects, the costs of these new dams and reservoirs will be 
paid from the state General Fund, and California taxpayers will share the burden of paying off bonds that 
will drain $500 million a year from the General Fund.

It’s an issue of fairness. The 1960 bond act that financed the State Water Project directed that beneficiaries 
pay those costs through their water rates. If private water users won’t fund these projects on their own, 
taxpayers should not be required to underwrite their construction, and then purchase the water later

at higher prices. Private water users who are the beneficiaries, not taxpayers, should pay for the cost of these 
projects.

As the drought deepens, the impact to Californians and fisheries along the California Coast will increase. 
Our northern rivers are some of the last remaining refuge for endangered salmon species that are on the 
brink of extinction. Additionally, our rivers provide important spawning habitat for fish that are important 
to the entire state, up and down the West Coast. This water bond short-changes both the North Coast and 
California.

Under Proposition 1, water storage money would not be available for Central and North Coast regions. It 
restricts storage spending to benefit a limited geography in the state, mainly the San Joaquin and Sacramento 
valleys and Southern California.

Proposition 1 is the wrong investment: it does little for drought relief in the near-term, doesn’t adequately 
promote needed regional water self-sufficiency, or reduce dependency on an already water-deprived Delta 
ecosystem. As evidenced by shrinking reservoirs and collapsing aquifers, no amount of water storage will 
produce more rain and snow. Please join us in voting no on Proposition 1.

Assemblymember Wesley Chesbro, Chair

Natural Resources Committee

Conner Everts, Executive Director

Southern California Watershed Alliance

Barbara Barrigan-Parilla, Executive Director

Restore the Delta

SOURCES: http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/pdf/ and MapLight a 501(c)3 research organization that 
tracks money in politics. MapLight analysis of campaign contributions to the ballot measure committees 
associated with measures on California’s November ballot from Jan. 1, 2013 - Sept. 24, 2014. Data source: 
California Secretary of State


LOS ANGELES COUNTY — At the Board of 
Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Michael D. 
Antonovich recognized Tesla Motors Chief Designer 
Franz von Holzhausen, recipient of the 2014 
California Air Quality Award – for his efforts to 
revolutionize the electric vehicle through his Tesla 
Model-S design. 

 As Chief Designer, Franz is responsible for driving 
the overall design direction of Tesla, and developing 
all future Tesla design concepts and production 
vehicles. Prior to joining Tesla, Franz was Director 
of Design at Mazda where he led the design of the 
RX-8, Tribute, and Mazda 3,4, and 5. He was also the 
lead designer at General Motors where he designed 
the Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Sky, and Opel GT. 

 Franz began his career as Assistant Chief Designer 
at Volkswagen, where he was involved in projects 
from Concept One to the Microbus. 

Franz is a graduate of Syracuse University and an 
alumnus of the Art Center College of Design in 
Pasadena where he majored in transportation design. 

 Initiated in 1930 and ranked among the top 20 
graduate schools in the nation by U.S. News and 
World Report, the Art Center College of Design 
offers undergraduate and graduate programs in a 
wide variety of art and design fields, as well as public 
programs for children and high school students, and 
continuing studies for adults. 

Supervisor Antonovich and Franz von 
Holzhausen, Tesla Motors Chief Designer

HOLDEN SCORES LEGISLATIVE VICTORIES IN 2014 TERM

Sacramento – Assemblymember 
Chris Holden (Pasadena) 
winds up the 2014 session 
representing the 41st Assembly 
District with an impressive list of 
accomplishments. Among the bills 
authored by Assemblymember 
Holden and signed into law are:

 

AB 1557 Higher Education: 
Specifies that members of the 
California Community Colleges 
Board of Governors should be 
inclusive and representative of the 
many demographic groups in the 
state including disabled persons, 
veterans, and the spectrum of 
races and genders. 

AB 1566 Kitchen Grease Theft: 
gives law enforcement stronger 
tools to combat the growing 
problem of kitchen grease theft. 
Since kitchen grease became an 
essential part of biofuel, it has 
become a target for grease thieves. 

AB 1147 Massage Businesses: 
gives local governments more 
control over regulating massage 
businesses in their cities and helps 
communities to weed out the 
bad businesses that have become 
fronts for prostitution. 

AB 1767 Santa Monica Mountains 
Conservancy: increases penalties 
on vandalism and littering along 
the Santa Monica Mountains 
Conservancy. Penalties will be 
used to fund cleanup efforts in 
the many parks and wild lands 
throughout Southern California.

 

AB 1912 Education – President 
Obama: encourages the State 
Board of Education to provide 
academic curriculum on the 
election of President Obama and 
its historic impact. 

SB 955 Human Trafficking: 
principal co-author, allows 
courts to authorize wiretapping 
for the investigation of human 
trafficking. The bill ensures that 
investigators have the tools they 
need to pursue the most serious 
trafficking cases often involving 
minors as young as 12 or 13. 

SB 35 Wiretapping: principal, co-
author: extends the wiretapping 
sunset extension for five years 
until January 1, 2020 

AJR 33 calls on Department 
of Defense to “set the record 
straight” by adding the names of 
74 sailors from the U.S.S. Frank 
E. Evans to the Vietnam Veterans 
Memorial in Washington. Their 
ship went down during exercises 
in the South China Seas during 
the Vietnam War, but they have 
been excluded from the Memorial. 

ACR 170 Pasadena Police Agent 
Memorial Highway: designates a 
portion of State Highway 210 as 
Pasadena Police Agent Richard 
Morris Memorial Highway. Agent 
Morris was killed in the line-of-
duty on March 13, 1969.


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