Re “Judge in trash fee case delivers new blow to city’s credibility” (April 19) and “City should use managed competition to address fiscal crisis” (March 27): Jan Goldsmith’s essays on the wayward malfeasance of the city’s trash program enabled by Measure B’s passage in 2022 are right on. We can add to this farce the irony of putting $1 million dollars into the public-supported cost to fund a legal defense against suits from the public. Obviously, the city knew that people would see through its trickery. Whatever happened to “government for the people”?
Next, of course, will come another misworded measure for a sales tax increase. This might work if it includes reverting to a city manager model, enforcing the managed competition clause in the City Charter and limiting the influence of local labor organizations. Combined with some straight-talking honesty and a structurally balanced budget, the public might support that.
— Harvey Levine, Rancho Bernardo