Defeat of Bond

In your April 24 editorial you blamed the failure of the police-fire bond measure in part on the Valley secession movement. I voted against the measure and not because I am against upgrading our fire or police stations. I voted against it because of Los Angeles’ track record on bond measures. We already raised funds to build two new police stations, which were then never built. When the city leaders can be held criminally accountable for mismanaging funds, then I’ll vote yes on another police-fire bond measure.

Watch carefully the building of the two new 911 centers. The money raised for these items is already being misspent. Between $50 million in cost overruns on the hand-held radios and the money they spent buying the Westchester site (which they promptly discovered doesn’t meet the federal standards for an above-ground 911 facility), I would be very surprised if they complete the Valley and downtown sites.

JOHN KURT

Reseda