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Ventura County Positions

Government

Financing Local Government

  • Support measures to promote the sound financing of regular governmental services and of major capital improvements.

Library

  • Support of public libraries as a basic service of government with adequate funding by local, state and federal government.

Local Government

  • Support measures to further good local government.

Regional Governance

  • Support measures to assure that Ventura's County's existing
    governmental entities (cities, town, county) be required to participate in
    some form of regional governance to deal with problems associated with growth management, the regional governing body being able to mandate regulatory decisions.

Services and Special Districts

  • Support sound planning for services and special districts.

Natural Resources

Planning, Conservation, Recreation

  • Support measures for sound planning and conservation practices.
    Support measures that Ventura County government provide adequate
    parks and recreation. (Note: Should recreation become a threat to
    conservation, the League would give priority to conservation.)

Transportation

  • Support measures to maintain adequate transportation as a public
    service with the least possible adverse environmental effects.

Waste Management (Non-Hazardous)

  • Support measures to dispose of solid waste by methods which are
    economically and environmentally sound.

Waste Management (Hazardous)

  • Support measures to ensure strict regulation of all aspects of hazardous
    waste/toxic substances.

Social Policy

Corrections

  • Support measures to achieve a more effective corrections system.

Education

  • Support the need for a four-year upper and lower division university in
    Ventura County that offers bachelors and masters degrees in
    proficiencies needed in Ventura county.

Homelessness

  • Support measures to ensure planning to prevent homelessness: to
    provide effective, coordinated services and to ensure availability of
    replacement low cost housing prior to demolition.

Housing

  • Support measures to increase the supply of low and moderate income
    housing without undue jeopardy to the environmental balance, health and safety of the community.

City Positions

Conejo School District Budget

Position A: Support an adopted school district budget which is comprehensible to the public

Position B: Support for measures which promote an efficient and
understandable budget process.

Santa Paula Growth Management

Support amendments to the general plan which increase the allowed density,
but only in conjunction with a corresponding decrease in some other part of the planning area.

This page last edited 10 September 1999
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