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Blog commentary: Billion here, billion there — pretty soon, real money

Posted by: Maven on October 31, 2009 at 8:17 am

From Greg Lucas at the California’s Capitol blog:

“Both of the recently introduced $9.4 billion general obligations bonds to fund a variety of water-related projects would spend $1.5 billion on dirt.

In his bond proposal, SB3 7X, Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, a Sacramento Democrat, calls its “Statewide Watershed and Water Quality Protections. In the bond introduced by Sen. Dave Cogdill, a Fresno Republican, it is called “Conservation and Watershed Protection.”

But it’s dirt nonetheless.

Watershed is defined as “the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet.”

That would be dirt.

And the bond measures are fairly specific about what dirt they want protected.

Section 79750 of Cogdill’s measure, SB2 7X, is Section 79760 of Steinberg’s bill in that both begin by saying the $1.5 billion will be spent on “grants for ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration projects including but not limited to, all of the following watersheds: …”

Read more of this blog commentary from the California’s Capitol blog by clicking here.

October 31, 2009 · Filed Under Legislation - State & Federal

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