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Susana Barrios
From:Kathryn Bye <kflybye@sbcglobal.net>
Sent:Tuesday, June
To:Public Comment
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] No Costly Special Elections, No Wasting Taxpayer Money
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For Public Comment,
Dear Mayor and Honorable City Council,
I write as a concerned citizen of Anaheim to ask that you refuse to put the Hotel & Event
Center Worker Protection Initiative on a costly special election this year. Anaheim is a city
that should pride itself on fiscal responsibility and balancing of revenues and government
spending. It makes NO SENSE to waste over a million dollars of taxpayer money for an
election in which fewer than a quarter of registered voters will likely even show up. For these
reasons, Anaheim hasn’t had a ballot initiative off-cycle in a special election in decades. This
is fiscal irresponsibility at its worst.
According to the Council staff report from last month’s May 16 meeting, a special election
would cost the city $1,477,297 - $1,632,776. That’s compared to the $198,891 - $233,265
that it would cost to put the Initiative on the ballot in the general election in 2024, for a
difference of over a million dollars. Let’s be clear: The City of Anaheim should NOT drain its
coffers to hold a special election at the behest of big business interests.
If the City of Anaheim is serious about fiscal responsibility with taxpayer money and
community input then it will put our Hotel & Event Center Worker Protection Initiative on the
ballot in November 2024, which would save the taxpayers over a million dollars and ensure
maximal input by the residents of Anaheim.
Kathryn Bye
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