Will they cut off water service for refusal to pay the portion attributable to non-water stuff?

http://www.commissionersam.com/files/StreetMaintSafetyFee-Ordinance.pdf

"Proposed PCC 17.21.080 Fee Billing and Collection.
A. The SMSF is billed and collected with and as part of the utility bill.
B. In cases where the payment designated for billed services is less than the total of water, sanitary, stormwater drainage, and street maintenance fees due, payment will be applied proportionally to the stormwater drainage user fee, water, sanitary sewer, and street maintenance fee charges. All rules and procedures established under City Code for treatment of delinquent water and sanitary sewer accounts, and applicable penalties, apply to street maintenance fees."

To answer one of my own questions, water will be shut off if the transportation "fee" is not paid. The operative phrase above is as follows: "will be applied proportionally [to include] street maintenance fee charges."

The ballot title must reflect this reality. It is a Water tax, or tax on Water use.

For comparison, the ballot title for the Measure 50 Tobacco Tax was as follows:

"AMENDS CONSTITUTION: DEDICATES FUNDS TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE FOR
CHILDREN, FUND TOBACCO PREVENTION, THROUGH INCREASED TOBACCO TAX."

This dedicated spending for transportation makes a materially significant change to the present law as it pertains to use of water. The change will make delivery of water dependent not upon water use, and reasonable costs for "water use" in particular, but on theoretical use of pavement that one may or may not use.

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I have sent the city attorney a note to start a challenge on the ballot title. (I couldn't find it yet.)

I may seek an injunction upon all city officials from speaking pro or against, and most certainly to injoin willful lies such as that which you just made. Or even to compel you to affirmatively speak so as to reverse the effect of such lies. You can make an immediate correction here.