State leaders are pushing again in opposition to a November poll measure that will permit San Bernardino County to discover secession from California.

State Sen. Connie Leyva (D-Chino), Meeting Majority Chief Eloise Gómez Reyes (D-Colton) and Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez (D-Pomona) expressed their “shock” and disappointment in a letter to the board this week after supervisors gave their ultimate vote to put the measure on the poll. The measure would permit the county to evaluate methods to get its “fair proportion of state funding,” together with doubtlessly seceding from California.

The legislators wrote that they had been “shocked with the reasoning behind this initiative, involved about the fee to taxpayers to basically ask native officers to do their jobs, and upset within the narrative being created concerning our neighborhood.

“Your motion right this moment to place this query, with unclear outcomes, on the poll for San Bernardino County voters begs the query of why are we spending public assets to place this earlier than voters within the first place?” they wrote. “Public assets, together with workers time being paid for with taxpayer {dollars}, are getting used to not solely draft this merchandise however to place it on the poll in November.”

The lawmakers additionally mentioned the proposal “disregards the work being finished daily to carry extra assets to San Bernardino County,” emphasizing that collectively they introduced $65 million this yr to the Inland Empire.

The Board of Supervisors first green-lit the measure final week in step one to including it to the poll. Tuesday’s assembly marked the second ultimate vote on the matter.

If voters again the measure and if the Board of Supervisors determined to secede from the state, they’d nonetheless want approval from the U.S. Congress and the California Legislature to take action.

Sheriff Shannon Dicus voiced help for the measure throughout Tuesday’s assembly, saying that county assets have been harassed due to a 2011 state realignment legislation aimed toward lowering over-populated state prisons by shuttling them again to county jails.

“In realignment for state prisons, this county has spent roughly $40 million simply attempting to construct the infrastructure and tackle what was a state duty that was pushed down on us regionally,” he mentioned.

DeJonaé Shaw, former candidate for county supervisor, spoke out in opposition to the poll measure through the assembly, emphasizing the necessity for the county to prioritize funding for addressing homelessness and the continuing psychological well being disaster within the state.

“We are able to gown up seceding from the state by saying we’ll do a research to see if we’re getting our fair proportion,” she mentioned. “With respect, we don’t have to spend one pink cent of the taxpayer’s hard-earned {dollars} to acquire info leaders ought to already be doing and data that’s accessible totally free to each one among us totally free if we simply ask.”

Board Chairman Curt Hagman known as the potential for seceding from California and creating or becoming a member of a neighboring state a “distant final resort,” whereas emphasizing the necessity for a research to “permit the county to glean information that can assist us develop simpler methods for securing the suitable return on our tax {dollars}.”

“This potential possibility can be very tough to attain, and all 5 supervisors actually love calling California our house,” he mentioned within the assertion. “Nevertheless, none of us are keen to cease in need of doing every part we are able to to make sure that the {dollars} we ship to the state are put to work addressing our most urgent wants, resembling growing public security, eliminating homelessness, spurring job creation and financial improvement, and offering high quality roads and different infrastructure.