I wonder— could someone at YOUTUBE have taken pity on this tired old blah blah blah blogger and made some adjustments to compensate for my D.A.C.O. mistake with the aspect ratio on that old Olympus camera?

Something sure has happened…the previous hours and hours and hours of upload time have been dramatically reduced.  If not a result of greatly appreciated compassion and human intervention, perhaps the planets have come into alignment to mitigate that technical issue?   I don’t know…. but sincerely, THANK YOU VERY MUCH – WHOEVER or WHATEVER is responsible!

Speaking of cameras and settings….I had an idea for a new video camera setup for our LDPCSD meetings.  (are you ready?)  The new camera will incorporate an on-board polygraph with instant digital recording and readout through the viewfinder.  Lol!  The deluxe model will eventually boast a mild but unpleasant corrective electrical shock for tough and resistant cases.  Yeah, I know, probably won’t hit the market for a while but just imagine the demand for those documenting highly suspicious political activities?

Hey!  At least I did not suggest waterboarding the waterboard.  (actually, afraid I did years ago)

OK, put your food tray up.  Fasten your seat belt and prepare for another dose of repetition.

Board President Danny Johnson and GM Pete Kampa also repeat themselves – stating that monthly board meetings are for the board to conduct district business and the public’s only role is to observe and comment when permitted.  And I agree.  (Seat belt?)  Well, I would agree except for one major issue which is responsible for this continuing nightmare – month, after month, after month……

The decision to move forward with a “GRANT MONEY ANSWER” (to the decades old problem of OUTSIDE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE (MIDPOU) per water license 11395)  was apparently made outside the normal public meeting environment by sitting directors co-operating with Pete Kampa and his management company prior to his GM “appointment”.

This is the driving force for so much of the current controversy and for JOHNSON & KAMPA to now play the “NOT ON THE AGENDA THEREFORE NO DISCUSSION” card, while they control agenda preparation, is just another painfully obvious technique to limit constructive discussion while simultaneously covering their apparent wrongful past activities.

KAMPA is a smooth operator – absolutely no doubt about that and he can parse words “finer than a frog’s hair” but when he states things like,

“there have been no formal written requests for further outside POU water service since I became GM”

he may actually be telling the truth!

(Seat belt?)

LOOK FOR OPERATIVE and/or CONDITIONAL WORDS

The operative words in that above sentence are “FORMAL WRITTEN REQUEST” and “SINCE I (HE) BECAME GM”, because after all, things like that are usually agreed upon “OUTSIDE” normal operations, much less put into a written form which in such cases often end up being referred to as “evidence”.  Yes indeed, far detached from the concept of “transparency of public process” which JOHNSON AND KAMPA now frequently speak – as if it were a controlling factor in past activity.

The really important questions all revolve around a completely different time period which they are scrambling to avoid – what was discussed and agreed upon prior to KAMPA becoming the “appointed GM” –  through a 2014 board orchestrated closed recruitment process which garan..…..

 

 

 

 

 

 

(ok, ok, —– I’ll quit this time…..besides, you already know – right?).

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

Guess who’s going to attack hillside vegetation?

May the chlorophyll be with you!