Referendum Petition for Fluvanna County Water Pipe Line for Louisa County

The Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors is creating a Joint Water Authority with Louisa County with a potential debt of about Fifty Million Dollars on top of the One Hundred Million Dollars of debt they allowed without a referendum for the Domino Plan School Construction Project. But the citizens of Fluvanna County can have a referendum by simply circulating the Official Petition on the simple question: "Shall Fluvanna County join Louisa County in the formation of a joint Water Authority?"

Time is of the essence here because the Fluvanna Board of Supervisors is holding the hearing on this issue on March 18, 2009 and will make the final decision then and there. That means the petitions must be turned in to the Board of Supervisors that day at the start of the hearing.

This petition will go then to the board of elections to verify each signature against the official list of registered voters. I expect we will need approximately 2,000 signatures to get our referendum.

Official Petition

Some very important instructions:

• The petition MUST be printed front and back on legal size paper.
• You must be a voter in Fluvanna County to circulate the Petition.
• You, as the one who circulates the petition, must witness every signature.
• Only Fluvanna County Registered voters can sign the Petition.
• You must sign the back in front of a notary public who must notarize the completed form. Every bank will do this at no charge.
• You may not sign the petition you circulate. You must sign one circulated by someone else.

Water Authority Petition - Supporting Document

Comment from the Fluvanna Taxpayers Association:

The Fluvanna Taxpayers Association voted at its February 19 membership meeting to support a petition drive for a referendum on a proposed joint water authority involving Fluvanna and Louisa counties. This petition drive is not designed to stop the pipeline or to oppose a public water system in Fluvanna. The reason for the petition drive is strictly to ensure adequate time for citizen education on the important factors bearing on this issue. Creation of the authority has significant implications for taxpayers. Numerous citizens feel they have not received sufficient information to know whether the joint authority is a good idea or not and to be able to comment knowledgeably on it at the March 18 public hearing. A petition drive/referendum is a tool of democracy that we have chosen to use in this instance to assure that citizens are fully informed about the pros and cons of the joint authority and its impact on Fluvanna taxpayers. We invite you to join us in circulating this petition -- please read rules above -- and in supporting these goals.

There are currently no comments from the two political parties on this petition.