Certainly not as fun as WHITE WATER RAFTING THE MERCED RIVER, but different with respect as to how I will torture viewers with Monday’s Lake Don Pedro Community Services District (LDPCSD) May 16th, 2016 Board of Directors meeting. (Please imagine your own preference for an evil sinister background fading laugh)

No doubt you will recall my awkward and exceptionally prolonged attempt at producing an audio/photo/video presentation for the April meeting?  Whoa!  That was a nightmare huh?  Ended up consisting of 18 short video presentations which were extremely time consuming to produce but once I started – felt compelled to finish that meeting in the same format.  I do not regret doing it one bit and learned much that can be utilized in future endeavors, but for the sake of expediency in getting the meeting information out, I am going to post the entire audio recording in one unedited piece this time.  This way, those wishing to eat the whole enchilada in one sitting can do so while leaving others to nibble at their convenience when hungry for more information about the operation and management of their local nonprofit public agency water provider of which they are mandatory customers due to property ownership in the LDP subdivision.

KAMPA ONCE AGAIN UNPREPARED AND SCRAMBLING (or is that what we are supposed to think?)

The LDPCSD May 16, 2016 Monthly Board of Directors Meeting started late once again- but of course ANYONE listening to a recording of the meeting would not know this fact.  As mentioned before, I believe not stating for the record the time when a public agency business meeting starts, adjourns, recesses, reconvenes, etc. is a very poor policy.  Theoretically, without such known points in an audio time line, a record could later be edited to include or exclude certain material to intentionally misrepresent what actually transpired at a meeting.   Now I am not saying this has, or is going to happen (again), but considering our extremely poor record keeping history it would seem prudent to document such pertinent times for the record as was done prior to the arrival of Kampa Community Solutions, llc as the management company for our NONPROFIT COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT.

The agenda packet information was also once again incorrect.  Believe it or not, revised copies were being reprinted during the very “open meeting” the material was intended to augment and support! 

KAMPA said it was no big deal – but if this were true, why bother to reprint the material during an open meeting already started late?  Heck, considering all the “re-dos” by GM Pete Kampa and his professional management company we have witnessed already, you would think a minimum of five minutes could be allowed for any customer requiring that time to adequately express themselves during Public Comment – without constant interruptions and distractions like beeping time clocks. 

[Somebody organize another Ad Hoc execution committee…..got another customer running over the three minute public comment rule.]

Gosh, another board meeting in disarray because of something Kampa & Kompany should have done correctly days ago.  Seems our part time full GM & his management company are having difficulty keeping all their CSD clients straight.

[Reference: CALAVARAS COUNTY INFORMATION in our Lake Don Pedro agenda packet.

CAL*A*VAR*AS         —         LAKE*DON*PE*DRO

Both have four syllables……easy mistake.  Right?   lol] 

Obviously, those who attempted to prepare for the meeting did so with information that was confusing and raised many questions, yet spontaneous changes AT THAT VERY MEETING made all prior preparation not only worthless, but they were also presented with something different to study during an on going meeting – extremely distracting and not a good environment for comprehension of the material.

Was this revision created to LATER REPLACE that which was INCORRECT YET ALREADY LEGALLY NOTICED and PROVIDED in ADVANCE of the scheduled meeting?

In other words, was the incorrect material to be simply replaced with the CORRECTED VERSION so it would appear to be the OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE MEETING to anyone who might give a shit enough to actually investigate such curious changes in a public agency’s business record as possible clues to something more serious, such as intentional deception?

Even the second publication was not page numbered, so once again (TOO MANY TIMES!), no one attempting to follow the meeting was on the same page…..literally.  This has happened a few times and is irresponsible.

Danny Johnson, Board President opens the meeting and again limits Public Comment to 3 minutes for an audience of approximately 20 people, with only a handful ever actually speaking.  Why such a short time limit?  Why is there RARELY ANY FOLLOW UP BY THE BOARD OR THE GM & HIS MANAGEMENT COMPANY?

APPARENT ANSWER:  Public Comment is only a requirement of the law for such public meetings – and is treated just as that – give folks a limited opportunity to speak, (check the box for legal compliance) then continue to ignore legitimate complaints, questions, and comments by MANDATORY PUBLIC AGENCY CUSTOMERS by redirecting them to the General Manager who is only here part time and has already demonstrated through a number of incorrect agendas/packets his (and his management company) lack of attention concerning our CSD.

Excuses, excuses, excuses while customers are completely ignored and PAST INTENTIONAL WRONGFUL ACTS ARE NOT CORRECTED but only RUBBER-STAMPED AS UNFORTUNATE MISTAKES WITH THOSE SUBSTANTIAL COSTS TO BE PAID BY THE 99% of LEGAL MERCED RIVER WATER USING CUSTOMERS who have also been UNKNOWINGLY SUBSIDIZING WATER SERVICE FOR PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS CLEARLY OUTSIDE THE LEGAL PLACE OF USE UNDER WATER LICENSE 11395 THROUGH WHICH OUR DISTRICT HAS OPERATED FOR OVER THIRTY FIVE YEARS.

 

There is some wait time before the meeting actually starts.   When meetings haphazardly start like this, I have in the past, been caught off guard and didn’t get the audio/video turned on in time, so this time I let the audio recorder run.   Later, if time permits, I will post other related meeting photos and video clips also taken.

 

My best to you and yours, Lew