SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Today, the growing campaign to defeat November's most fiscally reckless measure - Proposition 46, which would sharply increase health care costs for consumers, taxpayers and local governments in California - announced that the measure is now opposed by one of California's most respected local government organizations, the California Special Districts Association (CSDA).
CSDA represents more than 1,100 special districts throughout the state including fire districts, park districts, library districts, hospital districts and other local governments that provide essential local services.
Its opposition comes the same day that California's independent Legislative Analyst reaffirmed in its official analysis that Proposition 46 could increase state and local government costs by "several hundreds of millions of dollars annually."
"Proposition 46 is a potential budget buster for local governments. It will hurt special districts' ability to deliver the core local services that millions of Californians depend upon throughout the state," said Noelle Mattock, President of the El Dorado Hills Community Services District and current President of the California Special Districts Association.
CSDA joins the City of Long Beach and a growing list of California organizations that have announced their formal opposition to the high cost of Proposition 46, including (partial list):
- California Teachers Association
- California School Boards Association
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California
- State Building and Construction Trades Council of California
- AFSCME California PEOPLE
- IBEW Ninth District
- California Medical Association
- California Dental Association
- California Hospital Association
- California Pharmacists Association
- American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- American College of Emergency Physicians, California Chapter
- California Association of Physician Groups
- California Association for Nurse Practitioners
- Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California
- Community Clinics Association of Los Angeles County
- La Clínica de La Raza
- California Association of Rural Health Clinics
- Central Valley Health Network
- NAACP California
- California Chamber of Commerce
- California Black Chamber of Commerce
- California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- American Civil Liberties Union of California International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
- SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW)
- SEIU-USWW (United Security Workers West)
- SEIU Local 1000
- Committee of Interns and Residents-SEIU
- Union of American Physicians and Dentists (AFSCME Local 206)
- Boilermakers Local 92
- Boilermakers Local 1998
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, California
- Plumbers & Pipefitters UA Local 442
- Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 447
- Plumbers, Pipe & Refrigeration Fitters UA Local 246
- Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Workers (SMART), Sheet Metal Workers Local 104
- Sheet Metal, Air, Rail & Transportation Workers Local 105
- Southern California Pipe Trades District Council 16
- Southern California Pipe Trades Health & Welfare Fund
- Sprinklerfitters and Apprentices UA Local 483
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