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Don't Overlook Important Prop 11 (Redistricting)
Submitted by Joann Steinmeier on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 3:50pm.I know that we all get tired when we think about the numerous ballot measures we are asked to decide upon each election cycle here in Calif
Seeing the Light
Submitted by Scott Hettrick on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 5:56pm.You may have recently received an unusual voting ballot in the mail regarding street lights in Arcadia that has nothing to do with the N
Developing Arcadia's Future
Submitted by Scott Hettrick on Tue, 08/26/2008 - 2:01pm.Arcadia is being required to comply with state mandates to create a significant amount of additional affordable (low-income) housing in the near fu
Westfield Lawsuits: Ripple Effects Too Damaging
Submitted by Scott Hettrick on Fri, 06/06/2008 - 1:31am.Whatever you may think about the construction of the Shops at Santa Anita proposed by Rick Caruso (who, incidentally, is now considering running for Mayor of Los Angeles), there are such significant impacts hitting Arcadia residents, the City of Arcadia, and the Arcadia Unified School District as the result of the two lawsuits filed early last year by Westfield and its funded Arcadia First! group, that it's time to drop or resolve the lawsuits immediately.
Gold Line? 20 Days to E-Mail Reps
Submitted by Scott Hettrick on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 11:38pm.There are only 20 days left until the MTA board meets a final time to decide the fate of the Gold Line Foothill Extension -- whether to greenlight it for construction from the Sierra Villa station to Montclair.
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Gold Line? 20 Days to E-Mail Reps
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If $4.50 per gallon-and-rising gas prices makes you want to see this project built in the near future, you must contact any and all members of the MTA board immediately and let them know your feelings. A list of e-mail addresses and phone numbers of each board member is included below.
The federal government has already agreed to kick in about $200 million if the MTA will just commit to about $80 million for this $1 billion ready-and-waiting project as opposed to the $5 billion or so Subway-to-the-Sea project that is still in the concept stage.
A representative from the MTA, Ann Kerman, addressed the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Forum Thursday to say that the MTA has the Goldline Foothill Extension project on the long-range unfunded list right now. Unless that changes and it gets moved to the list of funded projects by June 26, it will surely not get built at all or be put on the back burner for many more years.
The MTA's last-minute conceptual back-up funding plan to put a half-cent County sales tax on a future ballot is too squishy to count on.
The best chance of getting it put on the funded list is for as many people as possible from Arcadia and the San Gabriel Valley to join college students and Mayors from other cities, as well as Congressman David Dreier and others, in making your voice heard by MTA board members as loudly as possible before they make their final decision at the monthly MTA board meeting on June 26.
Here is the list of contacts for MTA board members:
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