Not Again with CV Cityhood

Not again! Castro Valley cityhood was overwhelmingly turned down by the voters 20 years ago, and today it remains as impractical as ever. We do not have the tax base to support it, and if we were foolish enough to become a city, we would be one of the poorest cities in California. Among other things, we would have to pay for our own police force to replace the current cooperative effort between the Alameda County Sheriff and the CHP. This would require that we tax ourselves silly to have any chance of success. I am surprised that Supervisor Milley would even consider such a possibility – he was our representative in 2002 when 72% of the voters said no. Please, let’s not go down this path again.

–Peter Kavaler, 

co-leader of the original “No on Q” campaign