The following flyer is being distributed city-wide to residents and small businesses in the City of El Segundo today, on Sunday, January 11, 2014. Look for it attached to or near your front door or the gate or fence leading to your front door. It may be in a plastic bag due to rain. If you did not receive the flyer, you can download the PDF file and view it, print and give it to others, and/or email it to others in town.

Click HERE to download or view the “Send in Water & Sewer Fee Increase Protest Ballots ASAP !” flyer PDF file.

Send in Water & Sewer Fee Increase Protest Ballots ASAP !

Every Water Customer, Property Owner, & Authorized Representative Can Vote – Failure to Vote Counts as a “Yes, RAISE OUR FEES & TAXES” Vote !

Call & Email every Person & Business You Know that Resides or Owns Property in Town and Ask Them to Vote & Inform Their Contacts

All Protest Ballots must be received by the City Clerk by Tuesday, January 20, 2015

This grass-roots flyer contains facts you need to know to Stop these Fee Hikes

Background

• This is our Last Chance to Stop the 9 Water Fee Rate Hikes and 5 Sewer Fee Rate Hikes scheduled by the City of El Segundo for 2015-2019
• These permanent rate hikes are in addition to the annual water rate hikes automatically passed on to us from the up-stream water providers – Metropolitan Water District (MWD) and West Basin Municipal Water District (WBMWD)
• These hikes will also increase Business Water Utility Taxes
• Businesses and Landlords will pass the hikes on to customers and tenants
• It makes no sense to raise fees and taxes when we are still paying millions of dollars yearly in excess City employee compensation and pensions that have no relation to reality – only to City union campaign support for City Council candidates
• We pay Police & Firefighters $150,000 to more than $345,000 total annual compensation

Details

• Every Water Customer, Property Owner, or Authorized Representative of either can vote the Protest Ballots
• Whether or not you’re eligible to vote, please call and email every person & business you know that resides or owns property in town and urge them to vote & notify their contacts
• Download this flyer at PublicSafetyProject.org and email or give it to your contacts
• Complete, Sign, Date, & Send In your NEW set of Protest Ballots (marked “NEW” on envelope) – one for Water and one for Sewer (OLD Protest Ballots won’t be counted)
• Both a Water Protest Ballot and a Sewer Protest Ballot for each real estate parcel should be hand-delivered or mailed to the City Clerk at City Hall, 350 Main Street
• Protest Ballots must be RECEIVED before 6:00 PM Tuesday, January 20, 2015, or else at the 7:00 PM City Council meeting that night before the public hearing is closed
• To get replacement ballots by mail, or information, contact the City Clerk ASAP at 310-524-2305 or at City Hall, 350 Main Street (southeast corner at Holly Ave.)

Authored by Michael D. Robbins. Not authorized or endorsed by any candidate or committee.

Paid for by Michael D. Robbins, P.O. Box 2193, El Segundo, CA 90245. 1/8/2015 Rev. 4

NOTES:

The following information was not all on the flyer, but should be helpful.

We need another 1,400 completed Water Protest Ballots and 1,400 Sewer Protest Ballots delivered to the City Clerk’s office and received by Tuesday, January 20, 2015. We need everyone to do their share to help stop the water and sewer fee rate increases.

Please help by calling and emailing your friends and relatives in town. Also, please knock on the doors of everyone on your block, ask if they sent in their Water and Sewer Protest Ballots yet. If not, encourage them to request replacement Protest Ballots if needed, and to turn in their completed Protest Ballots.

If you lost or did not receive your NEW Water Fee Rate Increase Protest Ballot and NEW Sewer Fee Rate Increase Protest Ballot (both in the same envelope marked “NEW”), then you need to contact the El Segundo City Clerk’s office as soon as possible to request replacement Protest Ballots, because the City Clerk will mail you new Protest Ballots which takes time.

(The OLD Protest Ballots won’t be counted. They had an incorrect public hearing date on them.)

You may hand-deliver or mail your completed, signed, and dated protest ballots back to the City Clerk. If your mail may not arrive at City Hall by Tuesday, January 20, 2015, then please hand-deliver them.

The City Clerk’s office is located in City Hall on the southeast corner of Main St. and Holly Ave., at 350 Main St., across from Stuft Pizza. There are parking spaces along Main St. and Holly Ave.

City Hall is open Monday through Thursday, from 7 AM to 6 PM, and closed every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and on City holidays.

The completed, signed, and dated protest ballots must be received by the City Clerk at City Hall before 6:00 PM on Tuesday, January 20, 2014, or else at the 7:00 PM City Council meeting that night in the City Council Chamber, in City Hall, BEFORE the end of the public hearing on the Water and Sewer fee rate increases.

The City Clerk sits at a desk next to the dais, on the left side of the City Council Chamber. You can walk up to that desk and hand your protest ballots to the City Clerk (or Deputy City Clerk).

Access the City Council Chamber through the glass doors on Main Street, at 350 Main Street, next to the Wall Of Honor, on the south side of the City Hall wing that runs along Holly Ave.

Tenants:

Tenants who are not on the bill, and who are not the authorized representative of an owner or water customer, should contact an owner, water customer, or the authorized representative of either one, and ask them to complete and send in their Water and Sewer fee increase Protest Ballots.

The El Segundo City Clerk’s web page:

http://www.elsegundo.org/depts/cityclerk/contact.asp

Tracy Weaver
City Clerk
310-524-2305
tweaver@elsegundo.org

Mona Shilling
Deputy City Clerk I
310-524-2307
mshilling@elsegundo.org

Deputy City Clerk Cathy Domann has retired and is no longer working in the City Clerk’s office. I wish her a happy, healthy, and comfortable retirement. She served the City and its residents and businesses well.

General contact information for the City of El Segundo, as of January 11, 2015:

City of El Segundo
City Hall
350 Main Street
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-524-2300
http://www.elsegundo.org/
Hours: Open Monday-Thursday 7 AM to 6 PM, except City holidays.