Mistakes aren’t always corrected before print time. Last month, the authors of the argument for Measure X, which proposes that the county  enact a resolution to regulate overnight parking on downtown streets in Bolinas, reached out to the elections office too late to correct a misstatement about the town’s water usage in the voter pamphlet. In their rebuttal to the argument against the advisory measure, they state that downtown water usage in Bolinas is “100 percent over normal,” attributing the statistic to a statement by the general manager of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District at a July meeting. “It is reasonable to surmise that a significant strain on our town’s scarce water supply is related to its use by transient habitants,” the rebuttal, signed by five Bolinas residents, states. Yet Jennifer Blackman, the utility district’s general manager, said the residents seem to have misunderstood the information she provided at the meeting. Ms. Blackman did say during her report on the district’s quarterly data that June was the 10th month in a row of increased water consumption throughout town. She also detailed that the largest water users were the local visitor-serving businesses, all of which had increased water use over the summer, though she described that as typical. To the Light this week she added that the district has not specifically analyzed the water use impact of select water users. And though the district has not compiled a full year’s worth of data, she said if she were to hazard a guess, total water usage in Bolinas was at least 10 percent higher than the year before. Joyce Clements, one of the rebuttal’s authors who had provided the information from the utility district meeting, emphasized that the error—and the failure to correct it before the voter pamphlets were finalized—were honest mistakes.