The Zombie 218 Issue

Awake and lumbering across the columns of our local Nextdoor webpage is a new hot plot to turn back our now approved sewer rate increase. A handful of posters are imagining that a group would trek the neighborhoods with a protest letter to be signed, which then somehow would force a take-back the vote that the Supes did on April 21 to approve that rate increase.

Background: There were only 978 protest votes where 2,833* were needed. A decided lack of the magic number of 50% + one vote to block the increase.

Exclaiming each canvasser need only get 100 signatures, as one poster stated, I immediately noticed a math problem, and believe me, I am no whiz at math. There were six in that conversation, the total needed would be 2,833 signatures. So unless there was heavy recruitment of neighborhood zombie walkers, each of the six would actually need 472 signatures. They would need a "plague" of 28.33 zombies to do just 100 each. (I had to look that up. I could have used "mobs, swarms, drags, or appetites (!) appetites?- but the word "plague" seemed fitting for the ghastly time we are now in.)

Or, they could set up at the Kiwanis Club of Bay-Osos See's Candy selling booth by the post office, and gather signatures that way. With permission of course.

What the Supes would do with all these petitions, I have no idea. The protesters idea was: "....the Board of Supervisors could have another meeting to lower the increase?" There was also the suggestion that Supervisor Gibson knew about the Pandemic before we did to try and get as many tax dollars as possible before businesses went under. (Perhaps unaware that could unfortunately have happened before the first tax bill arrived.) This same person called Mr. Gibson, "the mayor of Gibsonville," obviously unaware that Los Osos is not a city.

I always thought zombies died when their heads were removed or their brains were destroyed. I guess not.

*The math: divide 5,663 by two = 2,831.5 and add one = 2,832.5, well make that 2,833. I don't think half a signature would work.