California: Group seeks initiative to reduce water rate increase, lawsuit filed to stop them
The Mission Springs Water District on Monday filed a court challenge against a citizen initiative that would roll back this year’s water and sewer rate increases, arguing the measure is unconstitutional and would bankrupt the district. The proposed initiative, whose backers include former Palm Springs City Councilman Jim Jones and former Desert Hot Springs City Councilwoman Mary Stephens, received more than 1,400 registrar-certified signatures in a petition drive earlier this year to put it on the November ballot.