1.   Citizen committees endorsed the idea repeatedly, but city and county governments have been unable and unwilling to do it.

2.   A citizens committee on municipal government and the Newark Charter Commission had recommended the change.

3.   A citizens input committee began considering the issue last year.

4.   A citizens advisory committee is already exploring ways to make this project, as well as others, more efficient.

5.   A citizens advisory committee recommended in May that a similar initiative could pay for desert land in north Phoenix.

6.   But Steve Soboroff, chairman of the Proposition BB citizens oversight committee, called continuing to mount security grilles ridiculous and said more oversight of such expenditures is needed.

7.   City officials spraying for gypsy moths have been told they must wait until the citizens cancer committee approves their chemicals.

8.   Consultants have been hired by state and federal environmental authorities, by the chemical company and by a citizens committee.

9.   First, a citizens advisory committee must OK it.

10.   Forest Tennant, a former West Covina mayor and a physician with a doctorate in public health, formed a citizens committee to fight the project.