Safe and Healthy Communities

March 28, 2000

Contact: Leonard Kranser, CSHC Communications Director 949-499-5567 Bill Kogerman, CSHC Chairman, 949-855-9889

Measure F Committee Maintains Momentum

Citizens for Safe and Healthy Communities, the Yes on F campaign committee, is wasting no time ensuring Measure F's implementation. On March 7, Measure F passed with a landslide 67.3 percent of the vote. The CSHC Executive Committee has been working, since then, to protect and enforce the voters' mandate.

CSHC Chairman Bill Kogerman reported to supporters that the committee raised over $1.3 million for the Yes on F campaign. He detailed how $1.2 million was spent, with the balance remaining in the committee's war chest. "We are strong, we are united, and we are ready to do whatever else it takes to make the county comply with Measure F," he said.

Kogerman set the following priorities for CSHC: Defend the initiative against legal challenges that have been filed. Deliver the voters' mandate to government officials in Santa Ana, Sacramento and Washington. Maintain the readiness of the volunteer team, communications network and campaign infrastructure to counter any attempts to circumvent Measure F. Continue fund raising for these tasks until the threat of an airport at El Toro is erased. Checks should be sent to Citizens for Safe and Healthy Communities at PO Box 249, El Toro 92630.

The CSHC leader pledged to work closely with the El Toro Reuse Planning Authority, "or indispensable allies", and other anti-airport groups. On March 23, CSHC and ETRPA rallied almost 400 anti-airport residents to attend and speak at a Department of the Navy meeting about the federal environmental study of El Toro reuse.

The Yes vote on Measure F gives Orange County voters the final choice on the building of new or expanded airports, large jails in residential areas, or hazardous landfills. It protects residents near John Wayne from airport expansion, as well as those who live under the possible flight paths of El Toro. The County is barred from spending money promoting an El Toro airport without first obtaining approval from two thirds of the voters.

The CSHC campaign office may be reached at 949-768-4583.