Great speeches to the city council

The following is a speech I gave in front of the City Council on Jan. 18. There were some great speeches from both sides of the issues and it would be great if the people who gave them could e-mail me the text of them at jockodinbuster@yahoo.com so I could post them here. (don’t forget authorship credit)

In the previous council meeting, Councilman Seyarto suggested that other measures should be found to add to the recall ballot to get more value out of the 80,000 dollars spent. I would like to suggest at this time that a slow-growth initiative would be just such a measure. Many towns like Fillmore, in Ventura County are currently in similar situations to Murrieta’s, With new building outstripping infrastructure, they have brought forth a slow growth initiative called “SOAR” which stands for Save Open Space And Agricultural Resources. These measures require all future rezoning decisions be subject to voter approval at normally scheduled local elections. A measure such as this will not bring things to a screeching halt in Murrieta, but it will slow down the building just long enough for infrastructure to catch up. Thank you.