The Shasta County Board of Supervisors must place a voter initiative on the ballot that already has spent some time in court, and likely will again. When the initiative entitled “Local Transparency and Security Reform” was first introduced, the County Counsel refused to give it a title and summary for fear that it would end up getting the county sued. It calls for changes that have already been declared illegal by the state. A judge ruled that the counsel had a responsibility to write the title and ballot summary. Now that enough petition signatures have been verified the board has an obligation to offer it to voters. The board will pass a resolution on Thursday for the measure to appear on a ballot next June.
-Steve Gibson