Another meeting, another position on a California Proposition

Last night the City Council voted its opposition to Proposition 5, the state ballot prop that would mandate drug counseling for criminal offenders as an alternative to prison. Most law enforcement agencies oppose the thing for giving too many types of offenders options to do drug counseling instead of going to prison, and for shortening too many prison sentences.

I haven't read the proposition yet (yes, I am the type who actually painstakingly reads the proposition text, even though it can be extremely painful) so I can't really evaluate those claims. Here is the text if anyone wants to do the honors.... tell me what you figure out.

That now means Pasadena is opposed to Proposition 7, the solar energy initiative ( as I discussed here), and is for Proposition 11, the redistricting initiative (according to Ballotpedia, Pasadena was in fact the first city in California to endorse it). Apparently, the city plans to continue looking at ballot measures and weighing in... up next appears to be the half-cent sales tax measure to fund transit projects that local governments all over the San Gabriel Valley are already lining up to denounce.