Agoura Hills ‘Tax Initiative’

Beware of a Trojan Horse coming to Agoura Hills! Ernest F. Dynda is inside, and he intends to slay the common sense and stability of your city in order to be victorious in his reelection of 1987. The Trojan Horse is his “tax initiative” he wants on the ballot, which accidentally coincides with the election for City Council.

It would seem that this tax initiative is putting the cart before the horse. Not $1 of hotel revenue has been collected in your city, and he wants to tie the council’s hands in dispersing the future funds. If there is a need for more police protection or the roads become worse (if you can imagine that) in Agoura Hills or an emergency created a pressing need for those funds, your elected officials would have their hands tied in using these funds.

As the treasurer of the Community Center Foundation and past member of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Council (pre-cityhood), I am aware of the recreational and cultural needs of our community and of the responsiveness of your council to those needs.

In the few years since incorporation, the number of developed parks has doubled and the concepts of a larger local library, lighted tennis courts and a community center are becoming a reality with the hard work and dedication of the people of Agoura and Agoura Hills and the responsiveness of their City Council.

If the council was unresponsive to the recreational and cultural needs of our area, I would see the need for such an initiative or removing them from office, but as it stands this initiative has little value except as a platform for the reelection of an unresponsive and undeserving councilman.

Instead of attempting to circumvent our representative government with this Trojan Horse, Mr. Ernest F. Dynda should be preparing himself for retirement from public service. Ernest, you can fool some of the people some of the time . . .

GLEN PETERSON

Agoura