Citizens in Charge

Plumas District Hospital’s administration came to the Jan. 5 board meeting prepared to answer Skip Alexander, Robert Zernich and other proponents of a petition to cap the hospital bond at $50 per $100,000 of assessed home value. Alexander and company garnered well more than 1,000 signatures for the petition; 870 of which have already been validated. They needed 600 valid signatures to call for a special mail ballot election. The next step is for the hospital district to designate its elections official.

Quincy resident Skip Alexander will file a Notification of Intent to Circulate a Petition to the Plumas County Elections Office Nov. 16, and when he does, he’ll set in motion a process that, in effect, will allow the voters a second chance to have their say on the Plumas District Hospital bond issue. Alexander attended the recent PDH board meeting Nov. 3, along with 20 other community members.