Dear ER:
The $30 million bond Beach Cities Health District (BCHD) is asking you to vote on in November isn’t necessary. Even though BCHD “pleads poverty” they receive steady tax dollars; about $5 million per year. Now, without even asking you, BCHD is working to serve outside district residents. BCHD will begin servicing outside cities, which is in direct conflict to guidelines the voters voted for. Can I underscore that the beach cities residents are footing the bill for allcove services for cities like Lawndale, Hawthorne and Long Beach (which has its own Health Department). This is on the heels of the $1.7 million bike path to nowhere. BCHD’s poor, reckless, fiscal choices put taxpayers on the hook for services that do not benefit Beach City residents and BCHD legally is not intended to serve. BCHD refuses to do what everyone else has had to do — cut expenses. They could easily reduce the [combined] $1.2 million annual earnings of their top five executives, and reduce their full time equivalent headcount of 80 people.
What has BCHD done for you by their wasteful, reckless spending over the years? BCHD wants to turn their financial responsibilities, as well as those commitments of a private party, into tax increases. These efforts are lock step with BCHD’s careless disregard for the public will. The need to dissolve BCHD’s board should be a priority of all of us. Just say no to another poorly planned bond for outside residents we get stuck paying for.
Candace Allen Nafissi
Redondo Beach
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