Once again, Mr. John Fonti is loaded with lots of negative opinions about every issue in Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park and Dos Vientos.

The truth:

After Mr. Fonti's diatribe about how he believes I voted on the issue of parking RVs in residential neighborhoods, let me point out that he was once again mistaken.

First, city staff, including Capt. Randy Pentis and our Thousand Oaks police, did a wonderful job of taking a difficult situation, providing excellent background and a solid recommendation for myself and other traffic commissioners to make recommendations to the City Council to begin to solve our citywide problem.

Nearly 200 concerned citizens attended our traffic commission meeting and made some additional observations and expressed their concerns.

By the way, John Fonti wasn't there. In addition to not showing up to express his views, it was evident from his mischarac-terization that he also didn't watch the proceedings on TV.

I was the lone dissenting vote for two reasons. I believed that while a good job was done to begin to solve the problems associated with RVs, I wanted higher fines as a deterrent and better protections for the majority of RV owners who, according to law enforcement, are not breaking the law and are respecting their neighbors.

Again, when it came to solving a problem, there was no Fonti; when it came to conveying the truth about the traffic commission meeting, there was no Fonti; and when it came to the truthful explanation of my vote, there was no Fonti.

Residents of Dos Vientos had enough with Fonti and four years ago voted him out of office.

We now have virtually no complaints and our residents enjoy a very neighborly existence.

While Mr. Fonti will likely not change his divisive, arrogant, intimidating and argumentative ways, he should be expected to at the least be held to a standard where the truth is supreme.

Shame on you, Mr. Fonti, for disrespecting this paper's readers and your neighbors. Rick Lemmo Thousand Oaks

The writer serves as a traffic commissioner in Thousand Oaks.