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Assemblyman Scott Wilk’s bill to close a loophole the California High-Speed Rail Authority has used repeatedly to meet without public involvement passed the Assembly Floor.
| Tuesday, Jun 2, 2015

hsr_tehachapi_bullettrainAssemblyman Scott Wilk’s bill to close a loophole the California High-Speed Rail Authority has used repeatedly to meet without public involvement passed the Assembly Floor.

“The California High-Speed Rail Authority lacks transparency and accountability and continues to deliver broken promises,” said Wilk, R-Santa Clarita. “A member of the public approached me with the idea for AB 85 after being denied entry to a California High-Speed Rail Authority meeting. Taxpayers deserve a seat at the table on issues that directly affect them.”

AB 85 clarifies existing law and defines a “state body” as any multimember committee. This will prevent agencies like the California High-Speed Rail Authority from taking advantage of this ambiguous law that allows them to hold closed door meetings without public involvement.

Current law requires all standing committees of a local government entity or of the Legislature to hold meetings that are open to the public whether or not the standing committee takes action.

Next the bill heads to the Senate.

The 38th Assembly District encompasses Simi Valley, the northwestern section of the San Fernando Valley and most of the Santa Clarita Valley.

 

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  1. Al Aird Al Aird says:

    This is a joke, we can’t get water into the State, but we can build a High Speed Train in the desert to nowhere!

  2. Dorene Tapp Dorene Tapp says:

    This is a waste of money. It is totally unnecessary.

  3. Seriously?! A bad thing?! Have you not driven on the freeways lately? This is probably one of the better ideas I’ve heard of! SCV is going to have a population of over 400,000 people in the not too distant future so you may want to find a way to move people to there jobs in a safer, faster fashion, don’t you think???

    • Wow r u serious? Do u really believe a hight speed train is going to help scv ?no! And the impact it will have state wide will b devastating . And the money could b better spent trying to do something better with the money like find water fix roads would even rather build a prison than a hi speed train to no where. But no hi speed rail

    • Wow r u serious? Do u really believe a hight speed train is going to help scv ?no! And the impact it will have state wide will b devastating . And the money could b better spent trying to do something better with the money like find water fix roads would even rather build a prison than a hi speed train to no where. But no hi speed rail

    • Uh, this isn’t a commuter train to “take people to their jobs.” It would be a high-speed train, to replace airplanes that currently take people from L.A. to San Francisco. We already have trains to take people to their jobs — it’s called Metrolink — but nobody uses that, thus the condition of the “freeways lately.”

  4. Jeff Selph Jeff Selph says:

    Joanne, there is no stop in SCV.

  5. No one want’s this …it is about Obama and his porky las plan.. The state was granted the money for that project…

  6. No one want’s this …it is about Obama and his porky las plan.. The state was granted the money for that project…

  7. Susan Peran Susan Peran says:

    The plan for this mess to plow right through the middle of our town, Acton. All that money, eminent domain, and what we all know will be the result of kickbacks and corruption. Kind of makes for missing the Mafia.

  8. They need to this money to find some way to help with this DROUGHT !!!

  9. Dean Botton Dean Botton says:

    Built right above the San Andreas fault line. I will never, eeeeeeeever board that disaster waiting to happen!

  10. Dean Botton Dean Botton says:

    Built right above the San Andreas fault line. I will never, eeeeeeeever board that disaster waiting to happen!

  11. Is there any stoping it? Or is this really happening? So back a fourth…

  12. I’ve attended 5 HSR meetings in SCV. How many is enough?

  13. This is as stupid as the monorail in Springfield. Now a bullet train to Vegas would be a better option.

  14. We need water capture resources not a train no one will ever pay to ride.

  15. Darla Ness Darla Ness says:

    The people who decided to put this high speed train on the map are either clueless or blind or ignorant. With all the train crashes lately with our normal trains you would think they would reconsider this completely dangerous mode of transportation.

  16. Joanne, we already have a train in SCV — Metrolink. I doubt the bullet train will go any faster into LA.

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