The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Web site, openspace.org, states it is a special district as a "legally constituted governmental entity," with the right to "have perpetual succession; the power to sue and to be sued; to acquire real or personal property; to exercise the right of eminent domain; to adopt a seal; and to tax."
Don't confuse MROSD with POST (Peninsula Open Space Trust). POST acquires land too, but as a 501c3 non-profit corporation and "transfers" land to government agencies. Details of "transfers" are never provided, even to government representatives.
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Subsequently, POST received $9 million from Prop. 40 state bond money toward the purchase of just one property - Corral de Tierra. The source of information is parks.ca.gov.
So, do any of you taxpayers care how your money's spent? Or that POST uses your monies to buy land without accountability?
Citizens must educate themselves about open space, especially regarding the land acquisition initiatives being implemented by dozens of groups, like Coastal Open Space Alliance (COSA), all advocating and buying private lands in our coastal community.
Citizens within the proposed MROSD annexation area must sign a petition to enable a vote on open space issues.
Terry Gossett
Moss Beach
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