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well good afternoon morris brown menlo park
and uh... i believe you have in front of you a letter
which i addressed to the high-speed rails committee on monday
and uh... it was meant to address uh... agenda item on their board meeting
tomorrow
uh... of the MOU of which they were uh... taking uh... information on and
uh... the point of it was that the MOU funding the key uh... backing of the
funding is from SB-1029
and uh... and I had asked them that they maybe should not go ahead with this at this
time because
uh... i'm claiming that SB 1029 nine is illegal
and this illegal because the it was approved
by the legislature without conforming to the restrictions in Prop 1A
..
if you read the letter on page three you'll see that the uh...
the authority was obligated to
approve a funding plan
for an initial appropriation of the project
and submit it to the legislature and to other uh... groups ninety days prior to
considering an appropriation they did not and in point of fact the only funding
plan
this all came about because we did a search for looking for funding plans
their funding plan the only funding plan that was approved and and drawn up that
we can find
was in november of 2011 and at that time they were not
talking about a book end funding or blended plan funding it's not even
mentioned in that funding plan
and yet when the SB-1029 was drawn up and submitted to the
legislature on July 3
one day before
one day before the fourth in or two days before the legislature really got into
it
the of a sudden we see funding for the blended plan and in the bookends
so there is no funding plan that we are aware of war that has been approved by
the board which would cover this appropriation it seems like SB-1029
is completely illegal
and we contend that has to go back to the drawing board
your your point today about cleanup language
would be submerged under the the fact that it would have to be a whole
brand-new appropriation bill
so that's where we are uh...
uh...
telling you just just what happened here it is seven months later
and they still haven't approved the funding plan but
uh... who knows