Whoa.  If anyone ever told me I would be involved with such a procedure I would have not only doubted their prediction but been rather shocked with the concept   …..   Oops!  Wrong expression!  Geez, even the thought of such a little insignificant…..

What can I say?  Ready for some blah, blah, blah?

The proposed procedure had been thoroughly researched on the internet with field professionals contacted and surveyed for opinions regarding prior diagnosis and prognosis for a full recovery.  The decision to proceed as planned was unanimously supported by those interviewed. An adequate working environment for the procedure was determined, selected, and cleared of potentially contaminating objects.  Sufficient lighting was present and functioning.  Necessary tools and instruments were prearranged on the adjacent procedure tray.  With the transplant present, unpacked and prepped for placement, the patient was situated on a recommend elevated surface, prepped, and opened to expose the procedure area.   I must tell you, I was not just apprehensive, but extremely concerned about all the documented potential negative complications with such a technical procedure.  One little slip and it could all be over.  Yes, I was very nervous but I had waited too long already and it was time to finally just “suck it up and get it done once and for all”.  No question it had to be done.  Just hope I didn’t wait too long – only time will tell.

POTENTIALLY UPSETTING MATERIAL DISCLAIMER

please take a moment and consider…..

IF A BIT SQUEAMISH AND “INSIDE VIEWS” OF THINGS ARE UPSETTING TO YOU –

PLEASE DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK!

Golf.  Haven’t played in years.  Once thought I’d have the opportunity to take it up again in my (hopefully) further advancing years but unfortunately we know how that has turned out so far for Lake Don Pedro.  They never should have changed the name from “Hidden Hills”.   Perhaps the best for me personally since jumping into that game again after all these years would probably have resulted in a torn muscle or ligament or other such common recreational injury – especially when a significant amount of my time may have been spent in the rough, sand and/or water hazards.  For the price of a round of golf I’d likely get my money’s worth with the enhanced scenery and exercise.  lol

WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED?

The Lake Don Pedro CSD website has finally been updated a little with correct information and removal of several broken links (Haven’t viewed that information yet but it may be “in progress” or tucked away somewhere else on the site.)

TUCKED AGAIN

Speaking of being tucked, (Yes, with a “T” but an “F” would work just as well) any of you happen to notice the OFFICIAL MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF  USE MAP  PER WATER LICENSE 11395 RESTRICTIONS THAT HAS BEEN REQUESTED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS TO BE POSTED ON THE LDPCSD WEBSITE?

Like a golf ball secreted in deep rough, you’ll have to search a bit, the information will not jump up and scream “Here I am!  Over by the flat rock by the coiled rattlesnake”.

Yup, not really a prominent subject display like all the self congratulatory “atta boys” for ostensibly saving a community from a disastrous drought while the actual goal was quiet service expansion to the benefit of land developers known to Kampa 20 years ago when he first began his infamous water career here at the LDPCSD and advocated district expansion beyond the MID Place of Use.

OPU.  REALLY?

Even the “OPU” title suggests an attempt to discourage locating and viewing the material.  Then add to that the unnecessary multi-stepped “clicking process” to secure, read and/or view the information.  Why wasn’t it posted and displayed on the site like information Kampa does want folks to see?

YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT LDPCSD MAP WITH THE RECENT AND HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS EXPANDED BOUNDARIES OF WATER SERVICE AND SPHERE OF INFLUENCE FOR FUTURE SERVICE OUTSIDE THE POU? 

(As you may recall my fellow mushrooms, I was to attend that Mariposa County LAFCo meeting, in fact I was catching a ride to Mariposa with an alternate commissioner but was told I could not attend because I was a director on the board and it would violate the Brown Act.  What?  I disagreed but was told “no” multiple times by different individuals.  I did not go and what resulted from that meeting were unsupported major district map changes which I would have challenged on the spot!  A map which I LATER DID, DO, AND WILL CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE as special interest garbage.  Yet there it is on the LDPCSD website right now— much, much easier to view than the official MID MAP and resulting prohibitive CSD resolution.)

THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF “KAMKPA & KOMPANY’s” LACK OF SINCERITY AND DESIRE FOR THE PUBLIC TO FINALLY UNDERSTAND THIS DECADES OLD FESTERING AND UNRESOLVED SPECIAL INTEREST DECEPTION.

FRAUD? 

YUP, SAD TO SAY THAT’S MY PERSPECTIVE: 

INSTITUTIONALIZED FRAUD

Of course I am a nobody and my opinion doesn’t mean squat.  I’m just a blah, blah, blah blogging customer who wants to understand how this can be legal.  I’ve wanted to know for years – while on the board for four years, and off the board now.

BUT HOW COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE FRAUD SINCE IT HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR ALMOST FORTY (40) YEARS? 

IS THERE A TIME LIMIT ON HOW LONG FRAUD CAN BE COMMITTED BEFORE IT IS ACCEPTED?  YOU KNOW, LIKE A REWARD FOR BEING CROOKED? 

“normally this would be considered fraud against customers and immediate corrective action would be undertaken, however, considering the activity has been going on for almost 40 years and involves very influential “movers and shakers” of both State and County affiliations  it has been determined by this ___________ to be permissible.  Thank you for attending ladies and gentlemen, have a safe trip home, but if on the way out you spy a #6 Dunlop with a 2 iron cover smile —it’s mine – let me know and I’ll play it where it lies” 

SEEMS TO ME THE LONGER DURATION OF A WRONGFUL ACT ONLY TESTIFIES AS TO THE DIABOLICAL SUCCESS OF COVERT ACTIVITY WITH A GREATER NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS BEING HARMED. 

But if it is fraud (or some other legal definition covering such questionable activity) why hasn’t it been stopped before now?

I’m not sure but believe it may involve the State and Counties with their various over-lapping, co-jurisdictional, departments, agencies, commissions, boards, offices, officials, representatives, blah, blah, blah…..either do not want involvement in a challenge against powerful land development interests and their lobbying associates, etc. and/or, those complaining about the fraud eventually die, move, or just give up due to the overwhelming frustration, non action, and apparent apathy that has been intentionally and specifically cultivated by those receiving the benefit in its continuation.   (Of course there are many other methods and techniques of preventing, delaying, or corrupting legitimate investigations as well.)

THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHY I HAVE GREAT DIFFICULTY ACCEPTING THE LEGITIMACY OF THEIR OUTSIDE MIDPOU WATER SERVICE ARGUMENT. 

 

HOW CAN IT BE ETHICAL OR LEGAL FOR A PUBLIC SERVICE AGENCY TO FORCE 99% OF CSD “LEGAL CUSTOMERS”

(THE “MANDATORY CUSTOMERS” OF THE RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION WHO ARE ENTITLED TO MERCED RIVER WATER UNDER WATER LICENSE 11395 – HELD BY THE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT – UNDER WHICH THE LAKE DON PEDRO CSD AS OPERATED SINCE INCEPTION IN 1980 AS A PUBLIC AGENCY – AND WHO ARE PROHIBITED FROM DEVELOPING THEIR OWN PRIVATE WATER WELLS)

TO SUBSIDIZE A SPECIAL BENEFIT WATER SERVICE TO PROPERTIES

(AND PROPOSED THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES)

OUTSIDE THE PERMITTED PLACE OF USE UNDER 11395WHOSE WATER SERVICE MUST BE PROVIDED THROUGH A GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM

(WHICH MUST REPLACE EVERY UNIT OF MERCED RIVER WATER THAT LEAVES THE POU WITH AN EQUAL OR GREATER UNIT OF GROUNDWATER FOR LICENSE COMPLIANCE)

UTILIZING EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE, OFTEN UNRELIABLE AND ARSENIC CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER WELLS IN A TRADITIONALLY DROUGHT PRONE AREA

(THE ARSENIC REQUIRING ADDITIONAL WATER TREATMENT WHICH OUR LAKE McCLURE/MERCED RIVER WATER DOES NOT)

ABSENT A LEGAL DUTY OR MORAL OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE SUCH SPECIAL BENEFIT WATER SERVICE AT SUBSTANTIAL ADDITIONAL COST TO THE LEGAL CUSTOMERS WHO DO NOT REQUIRE GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FOR PERMITTED WATER SERVICE?

 

AROUND, AROUND, AROUND WE GO…… I’VE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE!  IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY OUTSIDE – I HAVE WORK TO DO.

 

A CLOSING POEM FOR THE PROPERTY OWNERS OF THE

LAKE DON PEDRO OWNERS ASSOCIATION

REGARDING THIS OUTSIDE PLACE OF USE ISSUE:

 

 

IF MOTIVES & OBJECTIVES

WERE LEGAL AND SO TRUE

WHY DECADES OF DISHONESTY

ALL FUNDED JUST BY YOU?

 

My best to you and yours, Lew

HHBC (HardHeartBeatingCards) is a Subsidiary Concept Project of Tarantu-Rattle Publishing & a first cousin nonprofit to parent entity lakedonpedro.org  which is currently ascertaining precisely within what parameters it will continue communication with the “outside world”.

 

 

 

My best to you and yours, Lew  🙂

Again reasonable questions

Postponed for 30 days

But it doesn’t really matter

They’re never answered anyway.

.

They believe they are invincible

Their plans so clean and neat

Indeed superb examples

Of how some people cheat.

.

They cheat their own community

Their neighbors, friends and foe

But worst of all they cheat themselves

And I wonder if they know?

My best to you and yours, Lew

Nitrate and arsenic testing results not sent to the State as required?  Oh well, stuff happens right?  But I sure would have preferred the opportunity to read that official correspondence for the particulars myself.  Seems nitrates and arsenic levels are included in the same testing requirement but who knows when everything has been sanitized through the GM and explained second hand.

Come on now.  Most of us can read and are capable of understanding the material.  (Kampa presented 34 pages of boiler plate AT&T legal contract material in the agenda packet – for what purpose?  Notice to, and understanding by the public?)

Why isn’t information regarding the quality/safety of our drinking water included under an agenda heading like DISTRICT CORRESPONDENCE as it had in the past?  Doesn’t that make more sense?

If contained in the agenda packet and noticed ahead of time according to the Brown Act, then the public would have adequate time to study the material and present legitimate questions and/or comments at that next Board meeting.   Seems like a fair and logical process so that per-  ti   nent,…  ahh,… dis — cuss ion could ..ahh…be..ahhh…..oooooohhhhh KRAPA! …..

I see…..no information to the public prevents pesky questions for the GM not to answer……. wow.

What a system!

Isn’t there a religion orbiting that concept?  Church Of Ignorant Bliss?

Think I’ll skip the tap water and have a beer – I can read the quality assurance on the can.

lol

My best to you and yours, Lew

{NOTE:  MEETING VIDEO AT END OF THIS POST}

OK, LET’S TRY THAT AGAIN!  lol

Below is the list of proposed operational changes for the District that resulted from the “NON PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT MEETING” GM PETE KAMPA arranged.  Everyone in that Boardroom was aware the request was for a public meeting where Wes Barton’s questions could be asked openly and directly without interference from Pete Kampa or particular members of the board.   (President Johnson was not at the “accountant meeting” planning Board Meeting incidentally) – yet instead a private meeting was held in Modesto.

Another Kampa controlled inferior substitute” for what was requested and expected by the public attendees and some directors. (Emery Ross’s statement of missing the “eyes rolling” during any potential public questioning was quite humorous but made a valid point.  A lot can be learned from body language and how an individual responds to questions asked in a “real time” public setting.

What the public receives from KAMPA & KOMPANY are carefully constructed

NON-RESPONSIVE WRITTEN SUBSTITUTES FOR TRUTHFUL ANSWERS.)

Essentially just the same old stuff.  Recall the POST RETIREMENT MEDICAL BENEFITS issue which greatly increased District liability after several years of accepted policy change (other later employees were denied the additional benefits which had been discontinued by previous board action) until PETE KAMPA and KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS LLC showed up and started turning over every  issue looking for ways to increase District costs and complicate matters which would then naturally required KAMPA’s professional expertise to remedy?  That issue was also going to be reviewed by an objective third party but ended up going to our CSD attorney.  And then, to conceal matters even further from the public, our own attorney’s comments/advice was closed from public view and understanding.

Transparency?

Although not a Brown Act quorum issue, since only two directors (Board President Danny Johnson and Vice President Dan Hankemeier) attended the “PRIVATE ACCOUNTANT MEETING”, it still raises a question…..How can two of five Directors, during a GM orchestrated PRIVATE MEETING with the accountant, decide the best way to respond to Wes Barton’s financial questions asked of GM KAMPA in PUBLIC BOARD MEETINGS for so many months ?

ARE NOT LEGITIMATE PUBLIC QUESTIONS (REGARDING DISTRICT FINANCES)

DESERVING OF HONEST PUBLIC AGENCY ANSWERS?

 How do two directors know what is best for the other 3 board members –  much less the public they are supposed to represent?

Transparency?

Oh please.

Just a word many disingenuous people use to obscure the facts of what they are really doing.

Case in point:

STILL NO ANSWERS TO WES BARTON’S LEGITIMATE FINANCIAL QUESTIONS FROM GM KAMPA WHO IS ALSO THE BOARD TREASURER IN CHARGE OF THE MONEY!

Over a year now KAMPA has successfully side-stepped answering these questions – among others such as those dealing with the district service area mapping project and the Lake Don Pedro CSD website failures.

<<<<<<<<<<<<< I interrupt this blah, blah, blah with a current news flash >>>>>>>>>>>>>

_____________________________________

May 3rd, 2017

UPDATE!

JUST NOTICED this morning that the 8 out of 8 NON-FUNCTIONING REFERENCE LINKS on the LAKE DON PEDRO CSD website have been removed!

Now let’s see if the outside Place of Use Resolution (2013-4) is posted as it should have been a long time ago!

_____________________________________

<<<<<<<<<<<<< Now back to the regularly scheduled blah, blah, blah >>>>>>>>>>>>>

   (remember those old TV notices?)

Wonder if Barton’s questions gave birth to the below suggestions?

Without even receiving answers?

Are these “suggestions” an off-handed acknowledgement that

FINANCIAL MATTERS HAVE BEEN HANDLED INCORRECTLY FOR A VERY LONG TIME?

Same old story.

Those who intentionally violate known rules, regulations and standard operating policies/procedures when caught, or fear being caught,  always attempt to re-direct attention AWAY from their culpable activities and TOWARDS “making sure such {wrongful} activity never happens again”.

ALL WITHOUT EVER ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR TRUE CULPABILITY!

 

(“Gosh!  Don’t you also thank our lucky stars Mr. Fox has some excellent suggestions for protecting our district hens and eggs!”)

 

SO here are the “suggestions” contained in #4 FINANCE below –

 

 

NOTE: GM KAMPA identified the projects (also referred to as “tasks” on the second page) as:

1. Administrative costs
2. Groundwater well project
3. IRWMP  (Integrated Regional Water Management Plan) costs
   IRWMP INFORMATION link
   
4. Lateral service line replacement costs
   

(No answer at the meeting as to whether #4 included Outside Place of Use “private water lines” which often run quite a distance outside the permitted service area and could be designated a “lateral service line” for further grant reimbursement money.)

NOTE:  Only Projects 1 and 4 are requested for reimbursement.

 

 

 

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

Part 2 of the April 20th, 2017 meeting….some things never change while others constantly do.

CAN YOU HEAR THEM CALL?

I need to get outside for another rendition of the annual “weed slaughter” performance because those late rains really encouraged some wild growth. Where I had sprayed after weed eating – not too bad but where the rains caught me in between battles (no weed spraying) WHAT A MESS! Still easier than if I had done nothing, but a bit disappointing because I have to go over the same areas again.

SOS

Same old stuff at our meetings, questions avoided – continued, rarely addressed and when they are they receive totally inadequate explanation. Only excuse after excuse by our “remote GM”  – always the responsibility of another who is not present at the meeting. Then there is all that “busy work” distraction BS just to take up meeting time.

WASTE OF TIME?

Is this a big waste of time? I really wonder sometimes. Of course that is part of KAMPA’S method of operation – make everyone so frustrated they just give up and walk away from meetings leaving KAMPA & KOMPANY to do what they want without observers – much less reporters – regardless of how unprofessional the “reporting” might be.

You know, although weed slaughter is also very tiring (more physical obviously) I prefer the outdoor work hands down because I can see what needs to be accomplished and just get it done. No excuses.

My best to you and yours, Lew