Re: your May 27 article, “County clerk to open Simi Valley office�:
Supervisor Peter Foy's plan to open a branch of the Ventura County Clerk-Recorder's Office in the Simi Valley Courthouse is good news indeed.
It has been about 25 years since the late Supervisor Jim Dougherty, for whom I worked as a field aide, did the same thing. The response was excellent and will be again, especially considering the auto fuel crisis.
Unfortunately, after Dougherty's terms in office ended, the county ceased to acknowledge that more than half of Ventura County's population lives east of the Conejo Grade and requires public services.
Now, if only Foy could persuade court officials to use our local courthouse more often and set up jury pools here so those called for jury duty didn't have to waste gas driving to Ventura.
— Vince Nowell Sr., Simi Valley
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