Metropolitan Water District v. Dorff

Opinion

McDANIEL, J.

This is an original proceeding brought by the Metropolitan Water District (the district) seeking a writ of mandate to compel its secretary (respondent) to publish notice of sale of $30 million worth of bonds (series F bonds). The secretary has declined to do so thus far because she has concluded that it would be in violation of 1978 Proposition 13.

Issuance of the bonds was authorized in 1966 when, pursuant to an ordinance adopted by the district’s board, an election was held and a majority of the voters voted to allow the district to “incur a bonded indebtedness in the…