KAMPA HAS KNOWN FOR 22 YEARS THAT LAKE SHORE RANCH HAD BEEN ANNEXED TO THE LDPCSD.

WHY IS THIS FACT NOT ILLUSTRATED ON A MAP HE ONLY RECENTLY POSTED ON THE LDPCSD WEBSITE?

 

(ON THE LDPCSD WEBSITE BELOW THIS “NEW MAP” WAS THE FOLLOWING INSERTED STATEMENT – SO I WILL PUT IT IN QUOTES FOR THE SAKE OF ACCURACY)

“The map above was produced by the Mariposa County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) and shows the boundaries of the LDPCSD and Sphere of Influence.”

????????????????

“SHOWS THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LDPCSD and SPHERE OF INFLUENCE”

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This is typical KAMPA-SPEAK because the statement is factually correct, in that, the LAFCo map above does indeed illustrate the LDPCSD boundaries and SOI, however, KAMPA has once again intentionally omitted one very important detail………

the map is old, out of date, and of course, incorrect. 

(This is the map I was provided and familiar with as a director on the board.)

DELIBERATE OMISSION OF FACT TO MISLEAD? 

Considering KAMPA’s “hands on” experience and personal knowledge of such annexations 20 years earlier, he is apparently attempting to deceive and confuse the public as to the LDPCSD’s legal service area once again.

This is the precise reason I believe the 1980 District formation map is crucial to understanding this mess along with every single LAFCo approved annexation that changed that established boundary.

A REAL “EYE OPENER” FOR A LOT OF US

Yup, found out after the Mariposa LAFCo meeting last Wednesday, June 28^th, 2017 the LAKE SHORE RANCH was annexed back in 1995.

KAMPA had previously indicated that the 900ac proposed subdivision (LAKE SHORE RANCH) was IN THE DISTRICT by posting LAFCo maps  “quietly approved” by the district in May 2014 on the website.  They clearly indicated that proposed subdivision had been annexed into the district.  Unaware of this annexation I objected still believing the property was only SPHERE OF INFLUENCE (SOI) as had been represented for over twenty years – even in 2008 LAFCo material!.

I recently received the above map from the Mariposa County Planning Department which clearly shows LAKE SHORE RANCH within the district boundary.

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OK.  So I confirm through the LAFCo Executive Officer last week that LAKE SHORE RANCH had indeed been annexed in 1995 during the time PETE KAMPA was pushing district expansions outside the Merced Irrigation District Place of Use. (above)

OK.  I admit to being duped for many years (others were too) and will accept that the property was annexed by LAFCo in 1995.

OK, LAKE SHORE RANCH IS WITHIN DISTRICT BOUNDARY – so?

Why does KAMPA (after receiving his sham of an award for transparency incidentally) suddenly post an incorrect map (TOP MAP labeled Exhibit B)  illustrating that LAKE SHORE RANCH  IS NOT IN THE DISTRICT and only in the SPHERE OF INFLUENCE as had previously been represented for over twenty years?

In other words, why was the previous LAFCo map showing the LAKE SHORE RANCH WITHIN THE DISTRICT removed from the website and replaced with an old LAFCo map showing THE PROPERTY OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT?

“KAMPA MAP SHUFFLE” INTENDED TO DECEIVE & CONFUSE

NOTE: KAMPA knew full well back then in the mid 1990s, as he did upon return in October 2014, and does now, that such annexations required EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION to provide this SPECIAL BENEFIT water service to land developers outside the permitted service area for MERCED RIVER WATER.

BUT WHY THIS INCORRECT MAP UPDATE?

Again, there is no doubt KAMPA has some devious motive for this new misrepresentation of current district boundaries, but it escapes me right now – other than just being his traditional district management style of intentionally misrepresenting facts to completely confuse issues so the public will have a lesser chance of following his behind the scene activities.  Same game he has been playing with financial figures involving the grants that only someone with an extensive financial background could possibly begin to comprehend.  KAMPA is slick – absolutely no doubt.

SUCH AWARDS ARE MEANINGLESS UNLESS HONESTLY EARNED

If an organization was to bestow a certificate for “Consistent Misrepresentation and Deceit to District Customers Award”, it would be well earned by “Sneaky Pete” KAMPA.   Heck he would probably take the nationals in a heartbeat if they had such a thing. lol   Such reasonably sounding “Transparency Awards” are just more paper garbage for the landfill when awarded through a manager with such a growing negative track record.  He knows his material, absolutely no question about that.  He is also sharp, and quick to respond to tough questions albeit with “canned material” repeated an untold number of times when in a jam.  Nor is it about his qualifications in understanding a complex water system like California’s.  No, it is more a matter of how he uses his education, experience, political connections, etc. for his own personal and business goals through the continuing exploitation of our most valuable local natural resource, MERCED RIVER WATER.   That is the problem from my perspective as Pete Kampa has time and time again proven to be deceitful and unethical when confronted with questions about his activities.    Recall how he began his second employment with the LDPCSD without an employment background.  That is called a clue my friends.

ANYWAY, I believe such award presentations are inappropriate for two primary reasons;  1) it is wrong to the victim district which receives a mere “feel good window dressing acknowledgement of transparency” as disingenuous activities thrive without accountability, and 2), it is wrong to the districts who are genuinely striving to improve “Transparency” and build trusting relationships with their customers when managers like KAMPA use the same award as camouflage for his habit of misrepresenting facts.

Yup, similar to how he used the EMERGENCY DROUGHT to camouflage the actual goal of obtaining grant money for  groundwater wells with which to create a massive GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM for these outside MIDPOU annexations.  

If I were a legitimate district award recipient I would be disgusted and angry because KAMPA’s activities only devalues an award presentation honestly achieved.  Is a “Boy Scout mentality” slowing down my learning curve?   lol

Could these “awards” be well known scams to those in the upper echelons of the water industry?  Are awards and certificates actually utilized to just carry on the “business as usual plan” in deceiving district customers and fleecing them to the benefit of other third party special interests?

“….but, but, but……how could this happen?    We’ve received multiple awards for transparency?”

SUPPORT “KAMPA-GANDA” or RECALL THE AWARD

Would that awarding organization withdraw such an award if they took the time to investigate and recognized KAMPA really hasn’t been honest with the public about the annexations he participated in 22 years ago?   That he has  consistently used a public agency website to spread his misinformation/disinformation regarding district boundaries and areas of legal water service?   Or do they give a rat’s behind as to the “QUALITY and SIGNIFICANCE” of their awards once they reach their destination?

Would that organization essentially support the PETE KAMPA managerial style of “chronic deception” through inaction?

Why was/is KAMPA consistently misrepresenting facts regarding his “slumbering annexations”?

IS THIS SOME SORT OF “NEST EGG” MAINTENANCE PLAN BY KAMPA

USING PUBLIC FUNDS TO PREPARE FOR A FUTURE HARVEST?

hard to see?

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IS THIS SOME SORT OF “NEST EGG” MAINTENANCE PLAN BY KAMPA

USING PUBLIC FUNDS TO PREPARE FOR A FUTURE HARVEST?

Did he return to insure his (or someone’s) “nest egg annexations” would hatch properly and on time with a more substantial publicly funded GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM?  I don’t know but something certainly appears to be very wrong within the LAKE DON PEDRO CSD requiring some immediate and legitimate government intervention.

UNDOUBTEDLY THIS INDIVIDUAL

WAS/IS INVOLVED WITH

MASSIVE ANNEXATIONS OUTSIDE THE LEGAL POU FOR MERCED RIVER WATER– BUT WERE RECORDS REGARDING THAT SPECIAL BENEFIT EXPANSION

 IN ANYWAY RELATED TO …

 

???

What do other

MR WECs

think?

 

My best to you and yours, Lew

Still having difficulty with this.  Sorry, I realize repetitive.  Stuck in a loop of why, why, why?    OK, money obviously.  But why would the county LAFCos go along with such a special interest water development policy in view of the intended purpose of the LDPCSD?

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You know, in all the training classes I ever participated in while on the board that were presented by organizations such as the one KAMPA is apparently connected at the hip to,[i]  I have never heard it suggested that district officials intentionally misrepresent truth or practice omission of pertinent fact, as acceptable techniques for controlling legitimate customer concerns or protests of poor management.

[1] PETE KAMPA is currently running to retain his director position on the board of the CSDA (California Special District Association).  If KAMPA is an example of what that organization desires to have representing its interests – all I can say is “what goes around comes around”]

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Why were the Meeting Minutes between September 2 1980 to July 2 1981 “condensed”?

Probably because detailed notes would not have reflected well on a Board that immediately began expanding district service and violating the approved service area for Merced River Water after just assuming control of the facility.  But remember, our first GM was the previous GM of a private water company that was suddenly transformed into a public agency by LAFCo due to a positive vote of 88 people to form the LDPCSD.   That first GM believed the LDPCSD should serve water any where it was feasibly possible and the legally permissible issue was simply ignored.    

Those who read the CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (CPUC) approval for the transfer of facilities and assets from Sierra Highlands Water Company to the newly formed LDPCSD, were very much aware of the service area established.  The approval was quite explicit as to what was, and what was not, approved regarding water service.

THEN WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED AFTER CPUC APPROVAL?

 

 

Why does the Lake Don Pedro CSD consistently refuse to post a legitimate map displaying where Merced River Water (pumped under Merced Irrigation District water license 11395) can legally be used in this area? Properties outside the 11395 Place of Use MUST use ground water. Why should 99% of legal Merced River water users in the subdivision (for whom the water plant was constructed) pay for this ground water special benefit for land developers outside the subdivision?

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WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL “REAL PLAN” FOR THE LDPCSD?

 

Was water service provided by the LDPCSD to properties that the State Water Board, CPUC  and County Lafcos never intended?

Or.

Was water service provided by the LDPCSD to properties that the State Water Board and CPUC never intended but the County LAFCo’s most certainly did?

IF the former is true, why did the County LAFCos approve so many annexations that were CLEARLY OUTSIDE THE SERVICE AREA ESTABLISHED BY THE STATE WATER BOARD AND THE CPUC during formation and immediately afterward?

IF the later statement is true the question becomes,  Do COUNTY LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION annexations necessarily over-rule decisions of higher State Departments and Commissions?

 

EVEN THE LDPCSD ATTORNEY

ADVISED IN JUNE OF 1981

NO SERVICE OUTSIDE AREA!

 

 

SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG

at the

Lake Don Pedro Community Services District

Like the unpleasant odor of decomposition one picks up on a breeze yet cannot grasp in hand to determine cause, this journey too is primarily sniffing facts and following the unmistakable and obnoxious scent of public agency deceit and betrayal.

Whether a corpse littered field, or unethical activities by public officials pursuing personal/business goals, both should be properly disposed of by the appropriate authorities and as soon as possible.

I can’t shake this Outside MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE (MIDPOU) LAKE SHORE RANCH property annexation  in 1995 during PETE KAMPA’s start of an infamous water career.

DID KAMPA CREATE A

MASSIVE ARTIFICIAL GROUNDWATER DEMAND ON PAPER

through many outside MIDPOU ANNEXATIONS

then returned 20 years later to

COMPLETE THAT PLAN BY PROVIDING

GROUNDWATER WELLS DEVELOPED WITH PUBLIC FUNDS

for the purpose of creating an 

“ALTERNATE SOURCE”

necessary for

GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION

for his

PAST APPROVED yet “quietly slumbering annexations”?

?

“…..so let me introduce to you, the one and only….”

“MR WEC”

(MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMER(S) !)

(lol – Thinking Billy Shears huh?)

MR WECs DO NOT APPRECIATE SUBSIDIZING SPECULATIVE LAND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS – lol

Then “out of the blue” after the LDPCSD had just reached the $1Millon dollar savings mark after a successful proposition 218 to raise capital to avoid bankruptcy; false information to a grand jury investigator resulting in a director resignation; aggressive land development activities for more service outside the MIDPOU and cheaper water rates; destruction of our Administration Office by arson; then suddenly in May of 2016 (only 5 months prior to Kampa’s return) new LAFCo service area maps for the LDPCSD, which greatly expanded the service area, are placed in LAFCo records with LDPCSD’s blessing.  (you couldn’t make this stuff up!)

KAMPA RETURN (yes again!  it’s important-shows prior knowledge of regulations and former relationship w/director)

A PETE KAMPA return is orchestrated by Directors Emery Ross and Danny Johnson through a highly unethical closed recruitment process to guarantee KAMPA the positions of General Manager and Board Secretary.

As you may recall, PETE KAMPA, having previously worked with EMERY ROSS in the mid 1990s [when ROSS had been denied district water service multiple times but somehow obtained another individual’s meter and service], was well aware of the restrictions on MERCED RIVER WATER per water license 11395 held by the Merced Irrigation District.  KAMPA was well informed as to the ABSOLUTE NECESSITY FOR A GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM to furnish properties such as the ROSS CATTLE RANCH and other proposed and approved annexations KAMPA had worked with in the 1990s.

KAMPA was quickly provided access to the district’s $1 Million in cash to leverage government grants to construct multiple groundwater wells ostensibly for the benefit of existing customers faced with potential loss of all lake water due to drought.  However, in actuality, KAMPA and others had all along intended to create the necessary “ALTERNATE SOURCE” of water with which to replace every unit of MERCED RIVER WATER intended to be diverted to land developers outside the permitted PLACE OF USE of WL11395.

“PRO-EXPANSION discussions PRIOR TO KAMPA’s RETURN to the LDPCSD, involved finding someone who could write grants to construct groundwater wells for the outside MIDPOU property developers.  (Surely just public prep-work disinformation before announcing the likely very long awaited plan of “re-activating slumbering annexations” with KAMPA’s return.)  I clearly voiced my opposition to that plan when ending my four year term on the board.   I was told such groundwater would not be used for outside MIDPOU use but only for emergency drought purposes.  They lied – otherwise, why such things as the two attempts to abolish 2013-4 which prohibited increasing such service?  Why the necessity of secrecy of LAKE SHORE RANCH?  The steadfast refusal to post accurate maps depicting the actual service boundary and where MERCED RIVER WATER could be served under WL11395?  Why the refusal to post the State Water Board official map of the district?  All this and much more to keep KAMPA & KOMPANY’s plan quiet and out of the public eye?

What CSD purpose is served with such apparent conspiratorial effort to conceal district activities, both past and present, regarding outside MIDPOU service?

What purpose is served to the benefit of MR WEC through continued deception of fact and omission of the truth, regarding a 1995 outside Merced Irrigation District Place of Use (MIDPOU) annexation of 900 acres for a proposed subdivision adjacent to MR WEC’s subdivision?

Even more importantly, was it appropriate for the LAFCo to apparently co-operate and assist the LDPCSD in preventing potential local protest of such annexations (lack of LDPCSD community notice, hearing & election), which again, by virtue of their outside MIDPOU status, would certainly cause an increase in operation costs to the detriment of MR WEC’s subdivision under the water license? 

 

What purpose is served, other than to continue the years of disinformation and deceit to conceal pertinent facts from the public, for KAMPA to REPEATEDLY FAIL TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON APPROVED ANNEXATIONS and LEGAL POU ISSUES UNDER 11395 with which he was PERSONALLY INVOLVED AS AN EMPLOYEE 20 years earlier? 

Is that not a form of lying to the the very customers the LDPCSD receives payment and is supposed to serve?

Heck, when the board has a Closed Session (permitted in accordance with the Open Meeting/Brown Act for certain actions), even the “report out” provides a general description of the meeting so the public can appreciate and understand the necessity for such confidential discussions. 

“Nawwww…..this is different – now don’t ya see?” 

as Gunsmoke Festus would say.  lol

WHY PETER KAMPA? 

Not only because he was previously and personally involved with the peculiar approvals of many of these 20 year old annexations and proposed developments, but more importantly, he had made and developed many very influential contacts within the state water system industry.  Heck, KAMPA taught classes to politicians, operators, GMs, Special District directors,…etc.

Kampa was once again preparing to saddle the innocent MR WECs of the subdivision with even higher unnecessary costs which also will also increase in cycles for perpetuity – just to continue funding and operating his special interest GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM to circumvent WL11395 restrictions for his developer acquaintances known 20 years earlier.   MR WECs of the subdivision did not care for this plan, back then or now as it does not make sense when considering all the facts for this area.  There were also droughts before 1995.  Certainly not as bad as the last one which should always remain relevant to this discussion of service expansion using groundwater wells.

AVAILABILITY FEES PAID ON PROPERTY TAXES

This is another good example of how the extremely powerful influences of land development and real estate have controlled this area for decades – and that’s the real “best kept secret” around here.  Consider.   A MR WEC of the subdivision is either 1) a resident water consumer who pays a monthly charge of $53 plus the amount of water consumed and these charges have obviously gone up since formation, or  2) An Absentee owner who pays an “availability fee on their property taxes, which is $60/ac, with a maximum of $180 a year (including fractional divisions thereof).

WHY MAXIMUM OF 3 acres?

How many properties does MR WEC in the subdivision own that are over 3 acres? (Very few)

So why should a property of three acres pay the same yearly availability fee as one with several hundred acres?  But wait!  Where are the “open several hundred acres” of unimproved properties in the approved MIDPOU for the subdivision?  There aren’t any.  Kassabalm Flats  perhaps on Ranchito Dirve has open land, but not that much.

Ah oh….side note.    What about our NATURAL PARKS that are obviously within the subdivision?  Was that a spin off goal plan back then when Orb Hatton and Dwight Mueller suggested the LDPOA sell our open park land to developers for cash?  Sell our parks to developers who could then pull strings for re-zoning,  subdivide the park and claim a right to a meter on every “condo sized lot” over-looking “Dead Possum Gulch” because they are in the subdivision and therefore the MIDPOU and thus entitled to Merced River Water like original MR WEC?   Who knows?  Such “players” seem to be able to do a lot of things most of us understand is against the law and unethical.

ANYWAY, why has this $60/ac Max $180/yr NEVER BEEN CHANGED IN OVER TWENTY YEARS WHILE LEAVING ESCALATING COSTS TO BE PAID FOR BY THE RESIDENT WATER CONSUMERS?  Because we are trapped – unless you care to sell at a loss to the very people that are causing this water problem.  Absolutely wild!

Yup, the same interests that are pushing for MORE OUTSIDE MIDPOU WATER SERVICE (that must be replaced with expensive groundwater – with the added bonus of arsenic removal costs) scream and cry it’s not fair to raise their costs on property not receiving water yet – heck it will be more difficult to sell it multiple times!

FRIGG’N UNBELIEVABLE!

Poor old MR WEC – catching it from both sides of THIS FINANCIAL EQUATION by the SO GOSIP [rem?  SAME OLD GROUP OF SPECIAL INTEREST PEOPLE]

The SO GOSIP increase the costs dramatically for the legal MR WECs ; reap the profits by increasing a property’s value with good water; adamantly resist any attempt at having to pay a “Fair share” in availability fees on speculative land; but all the while continually pushing for more extremely expensive GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION paid for by the MR WECs of the subdivision to expand into vast areas within which they have an interest.  Greed my friends, greed.   Same as always  …

THEY DIDN’T WANT OUR SUBDIVISION LAND WITH WATER

THEY WANTED OUR SUBDIVISION WATER ON THEIR LAND.

 

KAMPA HAS HI-JACKED A SURFACE WATER TREATMENT PLANT INTENDED FOR MR WECs of the subdivision.

That’s why residents pay $53 a month before using a drop of water – on top of the water consumption charge!

 

Yes I did just see John Wick again.  (Keanu Reeves) One of the most action-packed – violent movies I’ve seen on television for a while.  (Some of the SCI FI stuff is pretty gruesome)  Anyway, I was almost exhausted just watching it!  lol   Now I am certainly not advocating ANY FORM OF VIOLENCE, but rather, just the opposite

and using only five letters from the word VIOLENCE,

use your

VOICE!

Speak up as a MR WEC (MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMER) and demand protection of this subdivision’s most precious natural resource  – quality Merced River Water straight from Yosemite National Park!

You might as well, because as sure as the smell on a decomposing puppy, PETE KAMPA won’t. 

 

 

..must get away from this!

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

oh yeah….just have to type it!  .….PUPPY MONKEY BABY    PUPPY MONKEY BABY    PUPPY MONKEY BABY   lol!

First time I saw that on TV thought I had suffered some quiet brain annexation of my own!  lol  later

KAMPA obtains

TRANSPARENCY AWARD

from his

MENTORS

for CURRENT VICTIM

LAKE DON PEDRO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT?

(sure would hate to see what they consider non-transparent)

Transparency Award? 

Just another deceptive special interest scam played on the legal water users of the subdivision compliments

of Peter Kampa and his

Kampa Community Solutions llc, aka KAMPACS

and his “conscious & deliberate” supporters.

Actually I was too harsh in the prior post.  I certainly didn’t mean regular folks who just “hear stuff” – and out of friendship or promise,

do not repeat confidential information relayed by someone else.  These are not active participants of this fraud.  But I can’t shake the question as to why this annexation required so much secrecy if legally and ethically approved according to the law at the time.

“Quietly approved annexations” suggest “entitled customers” of the subdivision at that time might have protested and successfully prevented the inclusion of another subdivision adjacent to the established Lake Don Pedro subdivision and within the service area of the LDPCSD.  So what?

Do not entitled MERCED RIVER WATER customers have a right to adequate notice of proposed developments near or in their community which might have a detrimental effect on their interests in an established subdivision?

NOTE:  Three resolutions after the LAKE SHORE RANCH annexation was approved, Resolution 95-8 required a $60 a year payment for a requesting customer to receive individual notices of LDPCSD Meetings.

Do “entitled customers” not have the right to legally defend and protect their interests when the LDPCSD and Counties of Tuolumne and Mariposa were OBVIOUSLY NOT CONSIDERING THE MAJOR ISSUE OF WATER LICENSE 11395 and it’s clear restrictions of where MERCED RIVER WATER could legally be diverted and consumed?

Was potential protest a legitimate reason for the LAFCo and special interest LDPCSD officials to co-ordinate concealment of fact and deceive entitled customers of the subdivision for 19 years until just before KAMPA returned in October of 2014 to finish the proposed development by supplying an “alternate source” GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM created with public funds?

What is wrong with protesting an annexation which will ultimately change the operation of a surface water treatment plant that was specifically designed, constructed and intended to serve those entitled customers of the subdivision?

Entitled customers were essentially denied their right to protest a change that was focused on providing an expensive subsidized special benefit water service to private land developers outside the approved POU of the water license.

But why?

YUP.  Didn’t sleep very well last night because I keep wondering what else PETE KAMPA and his cronies have done behind the scenes to our local responsible control over quality MERCED RIVER WATER?  I admit it.  They got me!  Hook, line, and sinker.  Never saw it coming.   Although I knew something was very wrong and attempted to investigate and find out what, those who certainly knew about this particular annexation remained silent, presumably because they did not want to ruin the “KAMPA JACK-IN-THE-BOX” SURPRISE RETURN TO LDPCSD TO FINISH WHAT HE STARTED 22 YEARS EARLIER.  I was learning much but then the unthinkable – our Administration Office was destroyed by arson in February 2012.

Sorry, but I do not believe that was a co-incidence.  I was close to something and believe someone had something very important to hide through destruction of records.  But who was responsible and what was gained?

SEVERAL HUNDRED OR THOUSANDS OF ACRES “KAMPA ANNEXED”?

How many thousands of acres might already be approved through  “ambiguous LDPCSD annexations” that do not adequately describe the property for anyone looking through records at the LDPCSD?  Wasting precious time on refused, delayed and/or  “misunderstood requests”?

WHY WERE/ARE CUSTOMERS INTENTIONALLY ALLOWED TO “MISUNDERSTAND” FACTS?

Statutory waiting periods for access to information, “bait and switch sweetheart deals”, misrepresentation, disinformation, ….blah, blah, blah.   It all boils down to management intentionally misrepresenting the actual status of the district to the public that pays the bills.

Disingenuous parties who feed on government resources know exactly what they are doing and how to meander and wind through the often complex legal requirements to achieve goals that rest of us could not possibly understand.  We do not understand, not because we are stupid or not paying attention, but rather were intentionally denied CRUCIAL INFORMATION AS TO CHANGES IN THE DISTRICT THAT WOULD OBVIOUSLY EFFECT NOT ONLY THE QUALITY OF WATER RECEIVED (now we have arsenic to deal with and remove), BUT WHAT IT COSTS TO PROVIDE THAT SERVICE (which must have increased due to this GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION business.

WHAT IS FRAUD?  

Here are some excerpts from a Fifth Edition Black’s Law Dictionary with examples of present situation in red font.

“An intentional perversion of truth

(property was intentionally misrepresented as SOI for many years on routine maps despite a “quiet annexation” 22 years earlier in 1995)

for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it

(anyone looking at such a map would never suspect property had been made part of the district -includes maps by the very agency that originally established the district) 

to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right.”

(Water service, however, atypical special benefit water service that costs much more due to requirement of GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION and arsenic and other contaminant removal to meet health department quality regulations, to replace the MERCED RIVER WATER illegally leaving WL11395 PLACE OF USE)

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“A false representation of a matter of fact,

(property outside district boundary – ironically, KAMPA is now misrepresenting on the LDPCSD website that the property IS NOT WITHIN DISTRICT BOUNDARIES per the recent LAFCo map posted “SHOWING DISTRICT BOUNDARY”)

whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of that which should have been disclosed,

(that 1995 annexation has been deliberately concealed from the public by KAMPA who had numerous board meeting opportunities to simply clarify the confusion with his personal knowledge and activity in that process 22 years ago but refused to do so)

which deceives and is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon it to his legal injury.  Any kind of artifice employed by one person to deceive another.”

(Study the below recently posted map by KAMPA.  Doesn’t make sense, but undoubtedly “SNEAKY PETE” KAMPA has some twisted purpose or goal to achieve.  Perhaps just confusing the issue even more?)

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DEFINITION OF FRAUD CONTINUED…..

“Elements of a cause of action for “fraud” include false representation of a present or past fact made by defendant, action in reliance there upon by plaintiff, and damage resulting to plaintiff from such misrepresentation.”

$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

“It consists of some deceitful practice or willful device, resorted to with intent to deprive another of his right, or in some manner to do him an injury.  As distinguished from negligence, it is always positive, intentional.  It comprises all acts, omissions, and concealments involving a breach of a legal or equitable duty and resulting in damage to another.  And includes anything calculated to deceive, whether it be a single act or combination of circumstances, whether the suppression of truth or the suggestion of what is false, whether it be by direct falsehood or by innuendo, by speech or by silence, by word or mouth or by look or gesture.  Fraud, as applied to contracts, created or continued by artifice, with design to obtain some unjust advantage to the one party, or to cause an inconvenience or loss to the other”

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“It is something said, done, or omitted by a person with the design of perpetrating what he knows to be a cheat or deception.”

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OK, enough fraud definitions….that stuff can go on forever.

Customers have a right to, and should expect, truthful information to be presented by their CSD officials  (especially those taking an Oath of office).   Such “slumbering outside MIDPOU annexations”,  orchestrated by KAMPA and approved by SPECIAL INTEREST MOTIVATED DIRECTORS, obviously represented substantial future cost increases to the legal customers entitled to MERCED RIVER WATER WHO DO NOT REQUIRE GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION or ARSENIC MONITORING AND REMOVAL from their lake water!   The CPUC approval of the district’s formation, the LAFCo 1980 area service map, and WL11395 all clearly identify who was permitted to receive MERCED RIVER WATER and where that water could legally be delivered.

WHY WERE THESE OFFICIAL DETERMINATIONS

REGARDING THE LEGAL SERVICE AREA APPARENTLY COMPLETELY IGNORED

BY THE LAFCoS WHO CREATED THE LDPCSD?

POSSIBLE ANSWER:  SO INFLUENTIAL SPECIAL INTEREST LAND DEVELOPERS OUTSIDE THE PERMITTED SERVICE AREA COULD OBTAIN EXTREMELY VALUABLE SPECIAL BENEFIT GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION SERVICE PAID FOR BY THE LEGAL CUSTOMERS OF THE SUBDIVISION.  

Publicly subsidized “special water service” for private party financial gain.

THIS ALONE DEFIES THE PURPOSE OF CREATING A SPECIAL DISTRICT IN THE FIRST PLACE which is to basically provide a limited service to a particular group of people in a defined area of service for only the cost required to produce and deliver that service.  However, when a special district board of directors  and it’s  APPOINTED FOR-PROFIT MANAGEMENT COMPANY  are not sincerely working for the benefit of those customers legally entitled to services provided, but are rather intentionally deceiving customers while expanding that service to those NOT ENTITLED while substantially increasing costs, I believe those legal customers are victims of unethical activity by officials who are supposed to have a fiduciary duty to the district.

If I missed a 900 acre subdivision right across the street from the treatment plant facility in 4 years on the board, what the hell else is going on that the true legal rate and fee paying customers also HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA?

Intentional concealment of extremely important facts from the legal customers, who are subject to the rate and fee increases which perpetuate this water subsidy to land developers,  have been intentionally victimized – in my humble opinion.

Perhaps I am stupid? Or trust people too much?  OK, but even so, that doesn’t change reasonable arguments – even if birthed in an idealistic Boy Scout perspective.  lol

KAMPA & KOMPANY cheat and the rest of us ALWAYS END UP COVERING THE TAB!   THEY SKIP – WE PAY! AND THIS IS WRONG.

FRAUD? 

OR PERHAPS SOMETHING ELSE? 

WHATEVER – IT IS WRONG TO LEGAL CUSTOMERS AND SOME “AUTHORITY” MUST ACT!

Whether it will result in any corrective action or not, I have submitted some information to the MARIPOSA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE because I believe this is fraud against the legal customers of the subdivision.  We pay rates and fees based on the assumption the district has/is/and will be operated legally to the benefit of the customers in that defined area of service.   I am not an attorney and honestly do not know, but rather than just continuing to post blah blah blahs and videos of highly suspicious meetings and KAMPA’s contradictory behavior hoping that someone WHO DID KNOW might offer assistance isn’t making the grade so I figured it would be best to at least notify law enforcement as to my concerns.

THE SQUEAKY HINGE GETS THE OIL

A CRYING BABY RECEIVES ITS MILK

VICTIM CUSTOMERS NEED ASSISTANCE

THANKS TO KAMPA AND HIS ILK

 

What if other legal MERCED RIVER WATER USING CUSTOMERS IN THE SUBDIVISION also believe they have been AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE forced to financially support a special interest GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM for those not otherwise entitled to LDPCSD water service?  What if they also report their concerns to their respective County authorities?

Would more complaints mean anything?  I think it might but that is up to each individual LDPCSD customer to decide.

It was much easier to pay water bills when I trusted the district was operating in the best interests of the legal customers.

You will see on the below map that accompanies the LAFCo approval how people could easily be confused and deceived as to which property you were referring when talking about a “proposed subdivision called Lake Shore Ranch”, because there are two other much smaller properties apparently owned by the same developer under the same name “Lake Shore Ranch”.

Besides, who really cared?  The maps distributed showed LAKE SHORE RANCH in the SOI (Sphere of Influence) and not within the district.

Example conversation….

“Where is that LAKE SHORE RANCH ANNEXATION?

“LAKE SHORE?  Humm, Lake Shore,….let’s see now….oh!  That’s the place down over there where the storage facilities are outside the Barrett Cove park entrance ”

(while completely ignoring the 900 acre proposed subdivision literally across the street) 

“No, I don’t believe so….it would probably be larger than that…..” 

(while completely ignoring the 900 acre proposed subdivision literally across the street) 

“Oh, OK, that’s the property further north around the high school area”

(while completely ignoring the 900 acre proposed subdivision across the street literally between the two other properties)

“No, I don’t think so….it was a proposed subdivision

  across the street from the treatment plant.. …..”  

“Check the map…..gotta go!”

Technically not a lie.

Now I know why Kampa never addressed my agenda request regarding that Doscher property across the street being used for the new raw water line……….KAMPA could not risk drawing attention to that “secret annexation” in 1995.   Same as with the “KAMPA COMMITTEE” researching all the outside MIDPOU properties and which received water or paid availability fees to the district.  All that information was supposed to be reported to the pubic.  Yeah, right. NEVER HAPPENED!  Couldn’t have that at all.    Just like the Post Retirement Medical Benefits being reviewed by an independent third party with the information presented to the public  Nope.   And answers to WES BARTON’S FINANCIAL QUESTIONS about the “funny numbers” with the audit and grant funding?  No way!

But if that 1995 annexation was properly researched and pertinent variables analyzed for it’s inclusion into the district, why hide it for 20 years?  Why what appears to be a conspiracy to keep it so quiet –  unless there was something unethical or wrong about the process used.

Shouldn’t the counties of TUOLUMNE and MARIPOSA and their respective LAFCos address the issue of PROTECTING A CRITICALLY IMPORTANT and REGULATED WATER SUPPLY FOR AN ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION ALREADY APPROVED UNDER THE CALIFORNIA SUBDIVISION MAP ACT?  Shouldn’t someone have confirmed that Kampa’s grandiose claims of creating a “foothill water empire” were feasible and reasonable with no detriment to the legal customers? 

 Is that asking too much for your tax dollars?

Protection by the very entities that created you?

Why were LAFCos who created the LDPCSD – essentially forcing a special benefit GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION?

 The LDPCSD BOD was clearly aware of the MID WATER AUDIT by the State Water Resources Control Board and that MERCED RIVER WATER could not be served outside the POU – HELL THEY KNEW THAT BACK IN THE 1980s!!!

WHAT WERE THOSE DIRECTORS THINKING WHEN APPROVING SUCH ANNEXATIONS?  AND WHY?

WHY did those directors approve something like that knowing groundwater would have to be used?  Passing those associated costs on to the legally trapped  users of the subdivision?   Their neighbors.   Serving the community?  Naw, just serving exploiting developers our community water – probably the most precious resource our subdivision could ever possess – other than the natural beauty of these foothills.

OK.  Again a bit harsh.  NO doubt there are people who believed the “exploiting spin” about “this development will be beneficial to the entire community”, “everyone will make money”, “what this community needs is an experienced developer who knows………blah, blah, blah”, and they bought that just like I bought the excuses and side-stepping answers to “What is LAKE SHORE RANCH”?

THANK HEAVENS FOR A SICK STOMACH!

Although embarrassed for years about being sick to my stomach and walking out of that meeting when the PETE KAMPA’s contract was to be accepted as the new general manager, I now understand and appreciate it as a true blessing.  I was not present for something vicerally knew (literally) was unethical and wrong to the customers.   That management contract essentially sold our independent special district status and freedom to a profit management company pursuing the exploitation of our water.

SO ANYWAY,

Why did Mariposa County LAFCo (Local Agency Formation Commission) and its paid consultants studying the matter of water service provided by the LDPCSD apparently go out of their way to avoid any discussion or documentation of that PRIMARY ISSUE of the MIDPOU?  GROUNDWATER ONLY!

How could county planning officials miss that little rascal?  Or did they and just “KAMPA-SPEAK” around the issue?

How could ANYONE even CONSIDER expanding a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION SPECIAL BENEFIT WATER SERVICE outside the MIDPOU further and expecting legal users in the subdivision to pay the increased fees for perpetuity?

OH YEAH!  WE WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT!

Why should legally entitled MERCED RIVER WATER customers of the subdivision pay the added operational, treatment, monitoring, and reporting costs with ARSENIC CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER for land developers outside the legal service area?

What are some of the defining concepts of a SPECIAL DISTRICT?   Requested services to a particular group of people in a defined area for the cost of what is required to provide that service.

NOT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE MAY WANT MILES AWAY WHO ARE NOT REGULATED UNDER THE SAME RULES AS THOSE LEGALLY ENTITLED MERCED RIVER WATER USING CUSTOMERS!   

Why was the first legally established service boundary by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in 1981 (when approving the transfer of facilities and assets of the private SIERRA HIGHLAND WATER COMPANY to the newly formed LDPCSD) completely ignored?

Why was the original LAFCo 1980 survey map (11 page “metes and bounds” survey still exists) which formed the LDPCSD never re-created when it was mysteriously lost shortly after CSD formation?

Why did LAFCo apparently assist in keeping the majority of customers in the dark about a “slumbering annexation” and permit the LDPCSD to then continue that concealment by not notifying customers or having a hearing and election on the merits of that annexation?

Besides providing an apparent MOTIVE FOR KAMPA’S QUICK UNETHICAL RETURN, such annexations also illustrate exactly what sort of leadership and management our district was experiencing – pursuit of private land development interests over that of the legal customers for which the treatment plant was  constructed.    Strange, out of all the annexations proposed, and those approved by the LAFCos, only one was legally approved through MID (holder of water license) and the State Water Board – The South Shore project – 2,010 acres/772 afa of water, but it never developed.

Who knows what was actually destroyed in the arson of our

Administration Building?

Nope.  None of this makes sense except for something I wrote sometime back –  The Lake Don Pedro Community Services District (LDPCSD) was the brainchild of the Lake Don Pedro Owners Association (LDPOA), and it sure looks like the 88 votes of residents that approved it only put into motion an INSTITUTIONALIZED FRAUD AGAINST ALL PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE LAKE DON PEDRO SUBDIVISION WHO MUST BE CUSTOMERS OF THE LDPCSD!

Geez, even before we were a public agency this particular 900 acre proposed subdivision was trying to annex in to get water that was clearly and legally, intended to be used by the subdivision and golf course ONLY (barring those few documented exceptions around Lake McClure).

 

“ANYTHING VALUABLE REQUIRES PROTECTION”

THE ABOVE WRINKLED PAGE IS THE WAY IT WAS

POSTED ON THE LAFCo WEBSITE. 

MY PRINTER IS FINE!  lol

My best to you and yours, Lew

  lol