Well, I’ve waited for over one year so it would seem reasonable to stop the hopeful waiting for a CALIFORNIA STATE WATER BOARD response and answer to a slew of legitimate questions about the attempted digital substitution of a 1993 Merced Irrigation District shape file map from an abandoned project for the real McCoy June 15, 1978 MID Place of Use Map hard copy for water license 11395 filed at the State Water Board in Sacramento. Gosh! No one, not even the State Attorney General is concerned about such a criminal conspiracy to violate long established State Water Law regarding Merced River water. Heck….the State Water Board still references the Merced River as being in Sutter County up north under Water License complaints – and complaint resolved even! lol The State Water Board doesn’t know where the Merced River is? Wow .
OK, we’ll be done with that as the opening post for now on but I will likely be posting links to it in the future because it is very important. It shows how people within government – even those trusted with enforcing the law equally – can manipulate the system to the benefit of whomever they choose. It’s called corruption. Anyway, no big surprise huh?
Speaking of covering up decades of criminal conspiracy to violate state water law, here’s the last LDPCSD Board of Directors Meeting I would guess was held on July 20th 2020 at sometime after 1300hrs, but you’d never know it from the official meeting recording – either as a label on the disk or from information gleaned from the audio recording. You’ll see, and hear for yourselves in a little bit. Anyway, some quick notes of that board meeting follow.
LDPCSD JULY 20 2020 Monthly Board Meeting (meeting date per the agenda, not on recording or CD)
VP Hankemeier – A very quick start to meeting without any prior notice or any of the normal opening statements such as the date, starting time, purpose of the meeting, directors present, absent, etc…. stated there were no public attendees; gavels meeting to order; and starts the pledge of allegiance which he apparently recited incorrectly (changed by the board? lol) VP stated without anyone there the meeting should go faster and announces first item on the agenda, …. no public comment without attendees, then Board Secretary Syndie Marchesiello reminded this multi-year sitting Vice President he needed to establish a quorum….
VP Dan Hankemeier stated three directors were present, Russ (Director Warren) would not be coming in due to work issues and Danny Johnson (Board President) was not there… so three….. Emery Ross and Syndie stated for the record they did have a quorum with Ross, Sperry and Hankemeier to which the VP responded “yes”. No public comments, no presiding officer’s report so straight to the General Manager’s report by Patrick McGowan.
General Manager/Treasurer, Patrick McGowan
LEW’S BLAH BLAH BLAH NOTE: This current GM/Treasurer, who has a MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT past family association (a family association which was specifically withheld from public knowledge by current Board President Danny Johnson who also refused to release the particulars of Mr. McGowan’s past employment record prior to and after his hiring with the LDPCSD – after Kampa resigned and suggested McGowan’s hiring),
still hasn’t responded to my requests for the 1993 Merced Irrigation District (MID) shape file map which former GM/Treasurer Peter Kampa and his board of directors WRONGFULLY USED (with clear assistance/cover from State Water Board cooperating employees in the Division of Water Rights) in his/their attempt to surreptitiously replace the LEGITIMATE MID Place of Use MAP on file with the State Water Board in Sacramento with the incorrect “1993 digital MID shape file map” to provide even further water service to other OUTSIDE MIDPOU LAFCO ANNEXATIONS Kampa set up between 1994-1997 during his first tour of employment with the LDPCSD.
6 years I’ve waited to see this map which apparently did make it into various other state water regulatory entities in various forms, yet only they and Kampa have seen this shape file map used to misdirect our LDPCSD for decades behind the scene! Oh yeah, and that CSDA affiliated CAD SOLUTIONS in Modesto that created Kampa’s FABRICATED DISTRICT BOUNDARY MAP to answer all the water license POU questions once and for all…… yet he final product never even mentioned water license 11395 – only suggested contacting the Merced Irrigation District for further information! I kid you not! And we paid dearly for that as well. Anyway…..
GM/Treasurer McGowan has offered absolutely no reason for his refusal to furnish this public information which would certainly assist in explaining how KAMPA and HIS BOARD OF DIRECTORS – since 2014 were able to apply for State and Federal emergency drought grant funds with incorrect map application information.
Once received, and approved (based on that information) those grant funds were used to develop groundwater wells with which to create an “ALTERNATE SOURCE” of water utilized (blended with river water) to circumvent restrictions in Merced Irrigation District’s Water License 11395 in order to provide water service to LAFCO ANNEXATIONS clearly outside the PLACE OF USE for Merced River water within the subdivision. (Both Tuolumne and Mariposa counties.)
So, in addition to greatly expanded costs for this groundwater, those legally entitled to the quality Merced River water held in Lake McClure within the Lake Don Pedro subdivision PLACE OF USE, must now consume water that has been treated to remove arsenic and other contaminants. Notice all the staining since blending water for all those LAFCO ANNEXATIONS?
Unfortunately, without further information it certainly appears as though the new GM/Treasurer is only continuing KAMPA’s decades of betrayal of MR WECs (MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS of the LDP subdivision) and concealment of public information related to the special interest mismanagement of a CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICT by former GM/Treasurer PETER KAMPA, who just happens to also be a
20 year board director on the CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION (CSDA).
I admit to being extremely disappointed as much of what McGowan has accomplished thus far within our district was long overdue and appreciated, however, without some reasonable explanation for his apparent cooperation with Kampa, his board of directors, and others in concealing this critically important MID shape file map, I now must consider the possibility all this “improvement stuff” is just part of yet another extremely elaborate scam to gain MR WECs support for yet another rate and fee increase that is only necessary BECAUSE OF PAST CRIMINAL CONSPIRACIES TO VIOLATE LAW AND CONTINUE THE FRAUD. They got caught yet won’t even admit it to the victimized customers! This has been going on for decades….all the way back to the formation of this fraud of a CSD.
Kampa resigned his LDPCSD employment and left the LDPCSD for his next CSD victim in McCloud up north back in 1997 when his “behind the scene” LAFCO annexation activities were discovered by the LDPCSD board of directors (there were even questions about rumors of a residential subdivision across the road from the LDPCSD by a director THAT WERE NEVER ANSWERED BACK THEN OR SINCE! However, after 20 years of silence, MARIPOSA COUNTY LAFCO (and Tuolumne evidently), only a few months prior to KAMPA’s unethical return in 2014, quietly announced through a LDPCSD service boundary map change (closed meeting), that a proposed 900 acre residential subdivision that Kampa had been working on in the 1990’s had actually been approved in 1995 – despite the fact LAFCO maps illustrated it as only Sphere of Influence until shortly before Kampa’s return.
SO? SAME OLD SHIT!
Just as KAMPA had resigned and left in 1997, he did the same in 2019 when confronted with a State Water Board Notice of Violation along with his multiple attempts (with cooperating Water Board operative employees) to close the investigation with even further absolutely false information provided by Peter Kampa. Kampa simply left the LDPCSD with MR WECS once again left holding the financial losses due to his special interest management of a California Special District for his LAFCO ANNEXATION INTERESTS setup 20 years earlier.
Some record yeah? Cheats us the first time and leaves with no accountability, then is brought back by Emery Ross and the board only to cheat and lie again and leave in 2019 after finishing the job (groundwater wells developed with grant funds) for the annexations he wrongfully setup twenty years before. Some dedication yeah? But to what? Intentional violation of the law and once again saddling the innocent legal customers of the subdivision (already enslaved with CC&Rs and another layer of owners association government regulating how water will be obtained and used) with the higher costs for a subsidized “groundwater substitution program” for Kampa annexations – while the legal customers must consume a diminished quality of water! Thank you CSDA for such a wonderful Special District manager!
YUP! CONSIDER: A 20 year criminal conspiracy to violate California State Water Law ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE CONCEPT OF A California Special District which is to simply provide a
1) limited service (water/sewer), 2) for a particular group of customers (LDP residential subdivision property owners per the California Public Utilities Commission approval), 3) within a designated service boundary (the LDP Subdivision boundaries) , and 4) for only the cost necessary in providing that limited service (a surface water treatment plant for Merced River water to the subdivision) and
NOT
extremely expensive groundwater wells to circumvent water license restrictions to blend and serve water to outside MIDPOU LAFCO PROPERTIES – many of which were proposed subdivisions in this drought prone area which would also have to be provided expensive groundwater paid for by Mr WECS to develop —water that was supposed to be for drought emergencies! THEY SOLD US OUT AGAIN!)
And so – does the criminal conspiracy just continue with Patrick McGowan covering the most important paper trail of evidence left by Peter Kampa and his board of DEFECTORS and others?
STOP!
THINK ABOUT THAT CSDA CONNECTION FOR A BIT!
A 20 year California Special District Association [CSDA] (extremely powerful state lobbying organization) board director (along with his co-conspirators within local and State Governments) criminally conspiring to further exploit our LDPCSD which is a California Special District.
PURPOSE? Primarily for the special interests of Pete Kampa, his KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS, llc, two county LAFCOs exercising state power on the local level, and LAFCO annexed property owners Kampa worked with 20 years earlier before screwing us the first time and leaving for McCloud CSD where he fractured that community as well.
Welcome to Democrat controlled Califusion, formally California.
START THE CLEAN UP PROCESS HERE IN NOVEMBER by electing
TRUMP AND PENCE
FOR
COMMON SENSE
Along with ANY other party candidate opposed to this continuing insane left democrat nonsense! It is time for government accountability across America!
Ahem,….sorry, I’m OK, actually feel better, now back to the LDPCSD board meeting…..
Patrick McGowan. Some information not in packet, any questions ask. GM forgot his “cheat sheet”, has to leave board room to obtain.
Consumer Confidence Report not in packet. Everything good.
Water tanks cleaned – with video footage.
McGowan here for a little over one year with district, no workers compensation injuries. (Excellent)
Ordered 48 more water meters, 147 ordered since McGowan here.
More grant information, costs for environmental review might be less than now stated.
Leaks everywhere with another raw water line leak at Barrett’s.
(LEW: THE TRADITIONAL OUTSIDE MIDPOU WATER REPORT IS STILL MISSING FROM THE PACKET – THIS IS THE ONLY WAY MR WECS CAN MONITOR HOW MUCH WATER IS LEAVING THE OUTSIDE POU SUBDIVISION AND WHERE IT IS GOING!)
Outside MIDPOU cattle rancher Emery Ross comments – wants to see more money in savings.
(Really? REM: Ross is the director who orchestrated Pete Kampa’s unethical return in 2014 by disclosing confidential board information for directors to Pete Kampa so he could have a contract ready for next meeting’s signature…..and the board went along….all without a simple background check which would have revealed an extremely checkered past – even here at the LDPCSD.)
Closed monthly meeting for Public Hearing: 1320hrs – (NO PUBLIC to dispute availability fee delinquent account billings)
Ross questions what availability actually means?
Budget vote also in this Public Hearing. Approved. 3-0 (2 absent) 1327hrs Public Hearing closed, back to regular board meeting. (Still no date of meeting mentioned – at least I didn’t hear it announced during this meeting thus far and the Meeting CD mailed to me from the office had no label indicating the date or what was on the disk – guess I shouldn’t complain, didn’t cost me another $3! lol)
Deep water project requiring detailed EPA investigations – species affected, etc. Environmental review. Army Corps of Engineers, much paperwork might be able to push through.
Director Ross commented how the local Miwok Indians camped here in the past which makes such investigation necessary regarding cultural artifacts, etc.
Passed. 3-0 (2 absent)
General district election: (3) 4 year terms. Director Ross explained the procedure about making appointment, wearing a mask, the paperwork involved, etc.
(Consider this, VP Hankemeier asked if Director Ross (with whom he has served for years) went to Tuolumne County or the Sonora city elections office for election filing—- despite the fact Emery Ross is a well known Mariposa county resident and outside MIDPOU cattle rancher – ie, cattle watered with a blended groundwater/river mix to circumvent water license restrictions (providing water service outside the legal place of use that is within the residential subdivision.)
AT&T CONTRACT: Two different options of monthly payments for space for towers. GM suggested option A. Board approved. 3-0 (2 absent)
Discussion item, USDA Final Draft: Water Intake Pump Station. GM stated there were a host of minor changes. Barge should be operational September 1st. The Deep Water Intake project was designed in the 1990s to reach the “minimum pool” of the lake during drought conditions. GM McGowan mentioned there were other sources available to district other than the barge as discussed with MID…..but no further information as to what these immediate sources of water would be.
Director Emery Ross for the first time during a public meeting since McGowan was hired a year ago mentions the fact that the GM’s father was a long time employee of the Merced Irrigation District. Strange huh?
VP Hankemeier closes monthly meeting at 2:48 PM
NEVER EVEN MENTIONED THE MEETING DATE OR PURPOSE DURING THE ENTIRE MEETING – much less the start time as strongly suggested by a prior Grand Jury report. (They) Do what they want, when they want – no accountability, but we pick up most of the bill while they call it a “community”….sounds like the start of a LAME yeah? lol – Sorry, but I had to add some sort of video to qualify as a video for upload so…..where do you get your news? lol think about it anyway!
Only in Lake Don Pedro can you have a local government business meeting without ever announcing the date, time and purpose for the official meeting record. Thank Heavens the Board Secretary was there to remind the Board Vice President he and two other directors were present constituting a quorum to conduct business, well, at least physically they were there. (VP couldn’t even recite Our Country’s Pledge of Allegiance correctly? — or has the LDPCSD board changed that for convenience also?)
My best to you and yours, Lew
