From today’s Voice of San Diego…
Four San Diegans told the City Clerk on Wednesday that they intend to gather the signatures required to place four overlapping measures on the November ballot, similar to the workforce-reform initiatives being championed by Mayor Jerry Sanders.
The group wants voters to decide whether:
— Voters should be required to approve any increase to city workers’ pension benefits.
— City employees should evenly split the cost of their pension benefits with the city.
— The city can allow private businesses to compete over municipal work with city employees.
The four measures overlap each other in language in some cases and one provides the option of excluding public safety workers from a voters-decide-future-benefits proposition.
Sanders is currently asking the City Council to place two measures on the November ballot, one requiring the voters to approve city employee pension enhancements before they’re enacted and the other allowing the competitive bidding of city services. A council committee forwarded the two initiatives to the full council, which will take them up Feb. 27.
Carl DeMaio, president of the Performance Institute, a conservative think tank; nursing-company executive Steve Francis, who ran against Sanders in last July’s mayoral primary; construction company owner Allan Royster; and small business owner Alex Barron signed the initiatives.