"Every time I go to Safeway at Homestead / Kiely in Santa Clara there are VERY LOUD obnoxious people at each entrance SHOUTING at people to sign their petition to put the 49er stadium on the ballot. I'm glad I checked your Yahoo! and blog sites to see who they were. The people were so offensively loud that I wanted to complain to Safeway management."
Residents, would you be willing to complain to our Mayor and City Council instead?:
MayorAndCouncil@santaclaraca.gov
By their inaction, and in fact, by their active complicity, the "stadium friendlies" on our City Council are the ones who have set us residents up for the circus that one resident described above.
Sure, the 49ers have the right to do what they're doing. However, as residents, we're entitled to demand that those name-getters - paid for by the 49ers and not by Santa Clarans - tell the truth when they are accosting residents and demanding signatures on the "49ers' own initiative."
In fact, you should be able to ask any signature gatherer paid by the 49ers the following:
"If the 49ers' petition initiative is IDENTICAL to the Council's own measure as you've claimed - and if both are BINDING - why do Santa Clarans need the 49ers' initiative?"
...and you're entitled to a truthful answer to that question.
Please mail/email/phone in your comments, as well as claims made by the 49ers, which you would like to see addressed. We'll answer you as soon as we can.
Thanks for your support,
Bill Bailey, Treasurer
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
49ers Stadium: Another Santa Claran on the 49ers' Shill Petition Drive...
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The NY Times reports that more than $67 million will be diverted from general funds for the stadium over the next few years. Santa Clara Unified will receive $26 million from 2012 to 2026. What about southern part of Santa Clara? That part of town is in the Cupertino/Fremont HS and the Campbell/Campbell HS distict. What's in it for them?
Thanks for writing, Randy!
The General Fund loss is a true report - the RDA can't pay down its stadium bonds without stiffing the City.
As for the SCUSD, they actually get less than $22M - and the City/County/Water District LOSE $17.3M.
Students attending Cupto/Frmt schools won't be affected, but their parents will be affected by the General Fund loss because they reside in Santa Clara.
The change in schools "passthroughs" from the RDA ONLY affects residents of Santa Clara - but the parts of **other cities** served by the SCUSD won't be contributing to the stadium in any way because their own cities will not be.
Using a subsidized NFL stadium to take money out of our General Fund is simply wrong - and it's a lot less fair to Santa Clarans than Measure C was. At least "C" applied to all households in the SCUSD.
Lousy stadium funding scheme equals lousy schools funding scheme.
My generation would have called that "The New Math."
Regards,
Bill Bailey, Treasurer
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