Make Vernon a Special District
Peter Corselli, official of a long-established Vernon industry, is right
to worry about the effect that passage of AB 46, the bill to
disincorporate Vernon, will have on businesses located there. The
vultures, in the form of annexationists, are already drooling. If the
end result of dissolving the city must be annexation, the bill would be
a disaster.
But there is another option. Disincorporate Vernon and simultaneously
turn it into the Vernon Industrial Special District. That special
district will provide Vernon with a government that gives business
owners and labor the security, stability and certainty that they
currently enjoy without the rule of a self-perpetuating cabal that has
run that city for over a century.
California has thousands of special districts for mosquito abatement,
flood control, libraries and dozens of other services. Surely it would
be common sense for the legislature to establish a Vernon Industrial
Special District, dedicated to promoting industry, as the city is
disincorporated.