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However, Oxnard\u2019s leadership considers them \u201cdangerous\u201d and instead of placing them on the ballot, the City Council ordered staff to write independent reports to assess their financial and other impacts. Will the city staff truly act as an unbiased third party when assessing these initiatives?\n\nI have recently been campaigning for the city to disclose and publish, for all taxpayers to see, the actual cumulative total cost of several recent memoranda of understandings with the city\u2019s unions. The city will only disclose a value that they call total cumulative cost, even after I have repeatedly demonstrated that these values are incorrect. The city\u2019s published total cost values understate the actual cost by millions of dollars. So, even with mandated financial reporting, will the disclosed information be accurate? And why are they just now suddenly concerned about financial impacts when they freely hand out concessions to these unions? If anything is dangerous and/or placing the city\u2019s future in financial peril, it\u2019s these overly generous concessions. Did the city perform an assessment to determine long-term financial impacts before doing this? Probably not since these concessions go directly to city employee pockets.\n\nIt seems to many that the city is afraid that these measures will bring about accountability and fiscal transparency to city operations. The probable real reason the city has ordered reports is to develop politically-motivated rationale to discourage voters from approving the five initiatives. Once these initiatives make it to the November ballot, I hope Oxnard voters will join me and vote \u201cyes\u201d to communicate our displeasure to the city leadership and reform City Hall.\n\nRay Blattel, Oxnard\n\nRead or Share this story: https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/readers/2020/01/01/support-oxnard-initiatives/2785079001/", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": [], "authors": ["Ventura County Star", "Published P.M. 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