[MIDPOU = MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE for MERCED RIVER WATER per WATER LICENSE 11395 held by MID and under which the LAKE DON PEDRO CSD pumps water from Lake McClure for controlled use within subdivision]

NOTHING LIKE TRANSPARENCY eh?

 

 

 

Never say never.  Wow – was I wrong  –  but right at the same time.  Check this out…..

 

No wonder PETE KAMPA has been able to say (while attempting to control the smile of a cat who just ate a canary) there have been no recent requests for MORE OUTSIDE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE WATER SERVICE …..

(emphasis on “no recent“).

Just word parsing and typical KAMPASPEAK.

Who would have ever thought an “ancient request” for more SPECIAL BENEFIT GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION would mean anything at all —- UNLESS THE PROPERTY WAS ANNEXED?  Right?

And if no one knew about that annexation?   How many other “sleeper annexations” have been awaiting PETE KAMPA’s return and activation so as to receive our extremely expensive EMERGENCY DROUGHT GROUNDWATER paid for with PUBLIC FUNDS?

DEAR KAMPA & KOMPANY—

Here’s a personal observation for those that did know and remained silent – as that ANNEXATION FACT was INTENTIONALLY MISREPRESENTED AND CONCEALED FOR DECADES –

Congratulations! 

You were/are actively involved participants in the

PETE KAMPA continued corruption of our local public agency!

You are complicit in the selling of our local community control over the most valuable natural resource a community could ever hope to obtain –  that beautiful quality MERCED RIVER WATER  flowing from YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK and stored in Lake McClure.

You assisted in trading our freedom as an INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT with the responsibility of protecting and wisely using that resource for the RUTHLESS EXPLOITATION by a for-profit limited liability management company whose president had a lengthy documented history of misrepresentation and deception of facts and truth.

And for those who voted for Kampa’s unethical return, GM appointment, relinquishment of local control and ultimate reconfiguration of our surface water treatment plant?

Had you only required a rudimentary employment check —– oops!

gosh darn it!  I forget –  you already knew what KAMPA was because THAT OUTSIDE MID-POU CATTLE RANCHING SITTING DIRECTOR EMERY ROSS had worked with KAMPA 20 years before and orchestrated his return!

(Gee, I wonder-was KAMPA also responsible for that “PRIVATE WATER LINE” traversing the ROSS CATTLE RANCH which supplies water for at least two other outside place of use ranches that also must be provided GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION because they legally cannot use MERCED RIVER WATER under WL11395 that was CLEARLY INTENDED FOR THE LAKE DON PEDRO SUBDIVISION?   Same time period as KAMPA’s first tour of employment – and would certainly explain why no action has been taken on that very suspicious situation.)

Why on earth conceal an approved annexation unless there was something wrong with the process or goal?

That annexation quietly slumbered until PETE KAMPA RETURNED TO FINISH THE JOB – which was – PROVIDING THE GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION for development – all with public funds.

Gosh, another coincidence!  That annexation occurred back in 1995 at the same time Kampa was in the middle of his DISTRICT EXPANSION CRAZE  (utilizing his notorious penchant for MISREPRESENTATIONS OF THE TRUTH/FACT) during his first employment with the LDPCSD (Jan 1993-Oct 1997).  [July 2nd 2017  CORRECTION: Just noticed I had accidentally typed 1993, rather than 1994 as PETE KAMPA’s FIRST EMPLOYMENT TOUR WITH THE LDPCSD.  SHOULD READ:  JANUARY 1994- OCTOBER 1997]

“EXPAND!   EXPAND!   EXPAND!

two weeks later?   –

“Sorry got to resign and go up north

and broker suspicious deals with

the Nestle Corporation in McCloud, CA!”

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JUN 15 1978 MAP SHOWS SIERRA HIGHLANDS WATER COMPANY BOUNDARIES

Zoomed in image of the ORIGINAL DISTRICT SERVICE MAP

on file with the State Water Resources Control Board

(The map PETE KAMPA refuses to request and post on

what is supposed to be

a PUBLIC AGENCY WEBSITE!)

~

I ADMIT IT!

I was fooled and

NEVER KNEW THAT 900+ ACRES

HAD BEEN ANNEXED UNTIL YESTERDAY!

When I was on the Board of Directors (2010-2014)  every map, every description, anything to do with district boundaries indicated LAKE SHORE RANCH was in the SOI (Sphere of Influence) and not in the district service area.  That’s why I objected to it being shown on the LAFCO MAP as being in the district back in 2014.  It was not the other smaller piece of property of which I was aware but a

  900+ ACRE proposed subdivision!

Yup, hook, line and sinker.

NO WONDER that KAMPA CONTROLLED COMMITTEE that was to study all the outside MIDPOU properties and report back to the public never completed the task!  

The results would have blown the lid on KAMPA’s little secret.   This annexation – and likely others currently concealed  –  would have been highlighted generating a number of legitimate questions. 

I think I know why why Kampa didn’t just “cop out” and correct the confusion by saying something like:

“LAKE SHORE RANCH is in the District Service Area because I was here when it annexed in 1995”.

WHY?

Because KAMPA could not admit acknowledge of that annexation without risking it was another motive for his UNETHICAL RETURN TO LAKE DON PEDRO – to complete what he had started!

Supply the necessary GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION SOURCE FOR DEVELOPMENT.

 

THE PETE KAMPA

“BUSINESS AS USUAL MODEL”

Remember that MIDPOU report?  The mandatory monthly compliance report to the Merced Irrigation District (holder of WL11395) documenting how much MERCED RIVER WATER was actually leaving the legal PLACE OF USE in the subdivision and that Kampa stopped providing to the public in the agenda packet?

Remember my lost FOIA?  (FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST) that was USPS certified mailed to the MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT but was somehow lost between Sacramento and Merced and never found? And then later when I hand walked in a copy to the MID OFFICE IN MERCED requesting that OUTSIDE POU INFORMATION I was later advised MID was not familiar with such a report?  (Despite mandatory compliance reporting for the last 17 years by the LDPCSD?  Interesting.  Starting to connect the dots?  Same here, but we are way behind the curve of their despicable activities.   Sad to say, it is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHO TO TRUST IN SUCH SITUATIONS.)

WHAT DO YOU VIEWERS THINK?

Does the following look like an annexation for a subdivision that will use much more water than a single family ranch?

ANNEXED IN ACCORDANCE WITH:

UPDATE NOTE:  Technically, the above statement that LAKE SHORE RANCH had been waiting to annex shortly after district formation in 1980 is incorrect.  Yesterday (Wednesday, June 28th, 2017) I read a LAFCo document indicating the owner of the property was instructed to WAIT UNTIL THE DISTRICT HAD ACTUALLY FORMED BEFORE ATTEMPTING ANNEXATION!   lol   I kid you not!

That owner was trying to annex before we were even formed as a public agency!  So many things are slowly beginning to finally make sense.

KAMPA FLIP-FLOPPING ON MAP INFORMATION?

Anyone notice the contradictory map information recently posted on the LDPCSD website?

Why would KAMPA apparently suddenly reverse course on that LAKE SHORE RANCH PROPERTY being in the district?  First he says it is in the district and touts the LAFCo map illustrating such, but Tuesday night I discovered KAMPA had changed the website map information – with contradictory information to his previous position.  First he contends the LAKE SHORE RANCH is in the district, now he apparently is suggesting it is not.

 

 

The below map was the new one posted on the LDPCSD website.

“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.”

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But how could Kampa fliip positions  like that?   One day those 900+ acres were inside the district, and the next they weren’t.  KAMPA said they were, but now apparently suggests they are not?  What the heck is going on here?  Flip flopping back and forth on an annexation which occurred during his first tour of employment.

Now to add even more confusion to this apparent intentionally created confusion…..LAFCo’s 2008 DRAFT MUNICIPAL SERVICE REVIEW also shows the LAKE SHORE RANCH as being outside the DISTRICT BOUNDARY on page 20.

What the heck?  How could that 900 acres be shown outside the district boundaries when LAFCo possessed paperwork proving annexation back in 1995? 

How could LAFCo make such a mistake 13 years later yet not make the correction until 19 years later and only 5 months before PETE KAMPA’s   _____________  return?

VIEWER POP QUIZ – Please fill in the above blank with one of the below choices:

     a) Triumphant

 b) Perplexing

c) Welcomed

d) Unethical

           e) All of the above.

 

ANSWER:  e – all of the above  (depending upon your perspective – of course – yeah, a trick question)

 

BELOW is the map LAFCo presented in that draft  2008 service review:

Clearly the blue shaded area (my artistic attempt with a dry marker) is outside the boundary.   This is apparently the 900+ acres of proposed subdivision and the yellow triangle above is the Piney Creek area – an island of potential district service but also outside the MIDPOU.  Islands of district services is something LAFCos were supposed to avoid when laying out districts (as I understand from reading their material).

______________________________

Anyway, ended up taking a field trip to Mariposa yesterday.

 

(Exhausted Wednesday night – finished Thursday morning early afternoon – that’s the reason if this post is a bit confusing on time sequence)

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

Whoa, what a day (reference to yesterday – Wednesday, June 28th, 2017).  Late Tuesday night after viewing KAMPA’s updates to the website (which contained what appeared to be “disclaimers” for the new map information) I decided a trip to Mariposa was prudent.

I figured, “why not catch the County LAFCo monthly meeting and use their PUBLIC COMMENT to present my blah blah blah complaint regarding the reconfiguration of our former surface water treatment plant into a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FACILITY benefiting outside MIDPOU land developers”?

IF YOU ARE GOING TO CHEAT –  AT LEAST BE GOOD AT IT

I must admit, good ‘ol Sneaky Pete Kampa and his band of treacherous conspirators have once again proven to be waaaaaay ahead of everyone else with their diabolical pursuit of special interest/benefit water service paid for with public funds.

I imagine if one is going to be a cheat they might as well strive to be the best – and I truly believe PETE KAMPA IS A WORLD CLASS CHAMPION!  Maybe someday a statue of his likeness could be erected for his “dishonor”?

MARIPOSA COUNTY LAFCo MEETING & RECORDS INSPECTION

Yes indeed, it was confirmed yesterday by the LAFCo Executive Officer a large parcel of 900+/- acres of proposed subdivision between Merced Falls Road and Lake McClure [which suddenly jumped from years of SOI (Sphere of Influence)representation to being within District Boundaries  <5  months before KAMPA’s return in October 2014] – was indeed annexed into the District in 1995!

WOW.

I was provided an opportunity to look through a box of old records and will be obtaining some copies I believe to be important soon.  Need to schedule some time to get back there too, but there is so much to do!  Wait to you hear what I have already discovered regarding this 37 year scam against the legal customers in the subdivision.

The deeper one digs the stinkier this becomes.

[IMPORTANT NOTE: It would be absolutely wrong and completely unfair for ANYONE to assume current county employees were/are involved in this LDPCSD deception that has spanned decades. My initial research effort was assisted with courtesy and professionalism which was greatly appreciated.]

Yes sir, absolutely shocking news to me (and others) who believed they had a good grasp and working knowledge of our district – at least as far as the information we were permitted access and allowed to understand – since not participating in the KAMPA & KOMPANY long term plan of domination and exploitation to third party benefit.

HOW LONG WAS EMERY ROSS FEEDING KAMPA 411 & RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE RECONFIGURATION? 

I must now also consider that outside MIDPOU cattle rancher and sitting director Emery Ross has probably been feeding KAMPA district information for many years while simultaneously receiving suggestions on how to better prepare for the treatment plant reconfiguration upon KAMPA’s return.

Still difficult to believe land for a 900 acre proposed subdivision was annexed back in 1995 yet never illustrated in routine maps – not even the draft Mariposa County LAFCO 2008 Water and Wastewater Municipal Service Review Report. That property was still represented as being only in the SOI (possible service someday).

But why the big secret?  Why the great lengths to keep it quiet? If everything was done legally and above board what could be the reason for not acknowledging a lawful district annexation?

Ahhhhhh, could it be that KAMPA was a bit nervous a 22 year old “quietly sleeping annexation” might be considered a powerful MOTIVE for his fast and unethical return to LAKE DON PEDRO CSD as GM?

You know?  – to finish that planned expansion with an increased GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM created by utilizing grant money leveraged with our district’s hard-saved $1 Million in cash? All to accomplish the planning, development and utilization of extremely expensive groundwater wells in a drought prone area for land development associates he worked with 20 years ago when starting his infamous water career?

SLUMBERING ANNEXATION BIG SURPRISE

Yes sir, BIG SURPRISE to those of us not involved with such surreptitious “under the table deals”.  What a bunch of ……..

Those of us not secretly dedicated to the special interests of others who seek to exploit the limited resources of our designated disadvantaged community for the purpose of securing private personal and business financial gain.

There are times (like right now) when on some levels I wish I had never starting researching this corrupt public agency because it leads to so much disappointing revelations,  but then, I consider two very important facts; 1) Not taking action to stop this is exactly how such duplicitous exploiting lowlifes thrive and continue their evil deeds, and 2) Lake Don Pedro is my home and I will oppose as best I can such outrageous betrayals by PUBLIC OFFICIALS and their APPOINTED GM.

I honestly do not understand how people like KAMPA, ROSS, JOHNSON et al, can look themselves in the mirror without some sense of guilt. Perhaps a poorly developed conscience from childhood? Pursuit of power, money, a misplaced sense of stature?  Who knows, but their duplicitous activities and lack of character have undoubtedly harmed many others whose only mistake was purchasing property in the LAKE DON PEDRO OWNERS ASSOCIATION subdivision and trusting that LDPCSD representatives were going to be honest.  So, so, disappointing, but that’s life, eh?

ANYWAY, here is the link to my LAFCo blah blah blah yesterday-   LAFCo blah blah blah Wed June 28 2017

 

My best to you and yours, Lew

PS…..Almost forgot the GREAT NEWS!

Thanks to PETE KAMPA and his KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS, llc (aka KAMPACS) expert management skills (and decades of close connection with the issuing organization) our district just received a transparency in government award!

Whoo Hoo!

     What a racket!

lol

“THAT’S NOT SO BAD. IN _____________________ WE WERE PAYING……$$$$”

Well I guess the good news is it probably won’t bother the newcomers to this area who are likely already thrilled with the lower cost of living compared to city life. Perhaps that’s part of the County’s timing gimmick of attempting to hand off another development failure whose ultimate outcome of substantial expense was clearly foreseeable by those who took the time to understand what was actually being “sold to the LDPCSD MANDATORY CUSTOMERS”….a BIG financial problem.

Another classic “bait and switch” while taxpayers pay more and more and receive less and less – that’s the traditional cost for unrestrained government and unaccountable officials.

The original agreement involved …..

too bad Mariposa County Planning/LAFCO records of all this Don Pedro area development have been prohibited from pubic review for well over one year now ….as it would be helpful to review and see exactly how such a regulatory failure occurred. I recall exactly when all these public county annexation records were withheld from further public review……when it was discovered that there was an alleged 20+ year old LAFCO [LocaL Agency Formation Commission] ANNEXATION of property along the shores of Lake McClure into the Lake Don Pedro Community Services District (LDPCSD) in 1995 (crooked PETER KAMPA strikes again) for a “slumbering 900ac proposed residential subdivision” that was completely hidden from public view (even from directors on the board at the time who had asked about a rumor of a major development across from the LDPCSD administration office!) for over TWO DECADES HIDDEN FROM THE PUBIC? (Or was the annexation just “manufactured as completed” upon Peter Kampa’s return to the LDPCSD to finish the annexation corruption by finally furnishing the groundwater necessary for developments he assisted in planning 20 years earlier before being caught resulting in a quick resignation?)

…. a sewage treatment facility on the golf course THAT WAS WITHIN the water license PLACE OF USE for Merced River water.

WHY ARE PUBLIC RECORDS BEING CONCEALED FROM THE PUBLIC?

Anyway, public records have been concealed by the County regarding this proposed subdivision annexation into the LDPCSD along with many others that defied not only logic and the law, but LAFCO’s own governing regulations on how such annexations into existing special districts would be processed! LAFCO RESOLUTION 76-4…… also still concealed from the public – essentially stated without the availability of water/septic for the development clearly identified in the annexation application, such annexation would not even be considered by LAFCO! Ahhh, but what happened? Some annexations didn’t even mention the project name or property location in the paperwork but were approved! Even stated there was no duty to advise the public of the annexation process! WHAT?????

The County doesn’t obey their own operating regulations but now wants to simply push the tremendous negative financial effects caused by their own irresponsibility on the innocent, AND ALREADY VICTIMIZED and over taxed, MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision! I’d say this is all a bunch of bullshit, but actually, it’s human waste going back many years.

ORBITS AROUND THE SAME SIMPLE UNDENIABLE FACT

So much of this can be traced to one clear fact…. local governments were intent upon continuing their annexations into the LDPCSD regardless of the mounting violations of CALIFORNIA STATE WATER LICENSE 11395 (held by the MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT) which restricts Merced River water use (impounded and pumped from Lake McClure) to the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision and golf course.

Why? So vast areas of rural foothill drought prone property could be developed and taxed by the county while passing the financial costs for the necessary water service to the unsuspecting owners of LDP subdivision property. (LAFCOs also set it up so that these LDP Property owners would ALSO BE MANDATORY CUSTOMERS OF THE LDPCSD WHILE LAFCOS EXPLOITED WATER LICENSE 11395 TO THEIR BENEFIT.

Think about how devious that was…….What property owner in the subdivision would have ever imagined they would be subsidizing brand new subdivision developments many miles away through extremely expensive groundwater wells developed through the intentional misrepresentation of LDPCSD area service maps (and other information) to state and federal granting authorities during an emergency drought (thanks again to crooked Peter Kampa and his CSDA…..CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICT ASSOCIATION for re-configuring our former SURFACE WATER TREATMENT PLANT into a SUBSIDIZED GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FACILITY FOR LAFCO ANNEXATIONS INTO THE LDPCSD!)

SHOULDN’T MID PROTECT 11395?

You would think the Merced Irrigation District would protect it’s own license right? Wrong. They have encouraged such violation for decades by ignoring what they also created in their desire to secure as many water rights to that Merced River water as possible. Heck, they even worked out deals where they received the proposed LAFCO annexed property’s water rights in exchange for the promise that the LDPCSD would provide water service in the future for the property development KNOWING FULL WELL PROVIDING MERCED RIVER WATER OUTSIDE THE SUBDIVISION/GOLF COURSE WOULD VIOLATE EXTREMELY CLEAR PLACE OF USE (POU) RESTRICTIONS IN THEIR OWN FRIGG’N LICENSE! Want to talk about duplicity and betrayal of legal duties and responsibilities of their own organization and shareholders?

COUNTY WOULDN’T HAVE TO FUND WATER WELLS – MANDATORY CUSTOMERS OF THEIR LDPCSD WOULD!

Tuolumne and Mariposa counties would clearly benefit from this deal through taxable developments while MID quietly picked up more water rights (of course the Piney Creek ISLAND OF PROPOSED SERVICE never even had the water rights to give MID but was annexed by Mariposa County LAFCO anyway – as an island of potential future water service? Islands of service? Supposedly that is something to be avoided by LAFCOs. Yup, real estate, land developers, contractors, engineers, blah blah blah…. everyone making money and doing business while the Lake Don Pedro subdivision property owner paid for all the added costs in developing water services for properties the district had no legal duty or moral obligation to provide SQUAT! Yeah, an old worn out story right? Welcome to GOV CORRUPTION 101. lol

CRAP! I have things to do….. anyway, as FINALLY recognized by the District and County in this agenda (when on the LDPCSD board years ago I told our LDPCSD attorney that the new facility was OUTSIDE THE POU – THE ATTORNEY DID NOT EVEN KNOW!) ….this new sewer treatment facility is OUTSIDE THE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE FOR MERCED RIVER WATER and therefore, must be provided expensive GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION for operation in order to circumvent the water use restrictions in MID’s WL11395. (The original disposal system was on the golf course and within the Place of Use for Merced River water – a completely different situation.)

SO?…..expensive groundwater from government grant funded ground wells….. that were SPECIFICALLY DEVELOPED TO PRODUCE POTABLE WATER FOR DOMESTIC HUMAN CONSUMPTION DURING AN EMERGENCY DROUGHT is being used to process sewage outside the Place of Use. Thank you Mariposa County for the opportunity to accept yet another financial nightmare due to county officials failing to obey their own department regulations and state water law.

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

Well, perhaps they didn’t receive it?  Maybe too busy to send a “Received – thank  you – please do not send anymore”  lol.

I mean after all, this outside MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT Place of Use issue has been, apparently, intentionally and completely ignored by county planning departments and their respective LAFCos for over 37 years as annexation after annexation was approved expanding the district beyond its initial established boundary.

Annexations which obviously forced the MR WECs of the LDP Subdivision into a decades old subsidized GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM for developers outside the MERCED RIVER WATER Place of Use – so MERCED RIVER WATER illegally leaving the subdivision could be replaced with extremely expensive groundwater to remedy the violation!

What a scam against the MR WECs of the LDP Subdivision for decades!

Think of all the cost increases and diversions from the priority goal of serving  MR WECs quality water for only the cost required for its production and delivery FROM THE SURFACE WATER TREATMENT PLANT and not arsenic contaminated groundwater wells requiring additional treatment, monitoring, and reporting to the State.   $$$$   (Sure they might come in handy someday, if all the water isn’t sold to outside MIDPOU land developers.)

But how could such an important variable as WHERE MERCED RIVER WATER could LEGALLY BE SERVED UNDER THE WATER LICENSE not be acknowledged and discussed in all the elaborate “water plans” for this drought prone foothill region?

Yup, just one little, tiny, stumbling block to the (on paper) “KAMPA FOOTHILL WATER EMPIRE” ‘ol Pete was pushing to both County Planning Departments and, apparently, without Board approval judging from the “apology letter to Tuolumne County Planning”.

What was the apology regarding again?     Oh yeah, “misrepresentation” of LDPCSD future plans for expansion.  What a frigg’n co-incidence.  22 years later….what was that old post of mine?…..REM?   The Crosby, Stills & Nash album?……oh yeah…

de ja vu

(click me….I’m a link!  lol)

Maybe someone, somewhere, will take a look at this “slumbering annexation” motive for some of the other “bad stuff” going on as our surface water treatment plant has been re-configured into a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FACILITY to circumvent water restrictions contained in WL11395 regarding PLACE OF USE for MERCED RIVER WATER while making MR WECs of the subdivision almost 40 year old victims of fraud (in my opinion at least).  We shall see.

Anyway, no answer?  Here’s what I sent……….

 

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

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”

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

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?

let me change the color

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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

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)

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

“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?)

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

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”

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

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

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

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

“Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors
9751 Merced Falls Road
June 17, 2019 at 1:00 p.m.”

Only a small and relatively insignificant hint as to the misdirection and outdated/incorrect information this district has experienced, produced and disseminated to the public compliments of “LAFCO ANNEXATION SPECIAL INTERESTS” (in and out of government) since long before the LDPCSD’s formation in 1980. The name itself (Community Services District) misrepresents the actual customer base that was designed and intended to be the MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS (MR WECs) of the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision. (Just as the original State Water Board documents and other associated agreements clearly reveal and uphold.)

My best to you and yours, Lew

PS: “My best” because “we” (fellow MR WECs) sure aren’t getting the best from our hi-jacked “community services district”. That is unless of course special interest corruption, management and operation were always the goals envisioned by the County LAFCOs (Local Agency Formation Commissions) which formed this district.

Well, guess that outdoor work will wait……looking at this stuff again is quite aggravating!

Unfortunately, I wholeheartedly believe this district was indeed intentionally designed and set up for what witnessed for many years: FRAUD!

(Just think….. only 88 people voted in favor of successfully enslaving over 3,000 property owners for perpetuity with a crooked CSD to expand water service while those entitled water users pay all additional costs.)

MANY STRAWS IN A DRINK HELD BY ANOTHER

The LDPCSD was formed in such a way as to permit the respective county LAFCOs to place their “straws” into the Merced River water impounded at Lake McClure. “Liberating” such water would permit massive development in these drought prone rural foothills without the respective counties having to use their funds to obtain the necessary water for development.

VIOLATED OWN RULE IN ORDER TO ASSURE CONTINUED VIOLATIONS OF MR WEC RIGHTS

This is why their own ignored LAFCO RESOLUTION 76-4 https://lakedonpedro.org/?s=lafco+76-4 is so important in understanding the coordinated depths of betrayal. MARIPOSA COUNTY LAFCO (as lead agency in the formation process) clearly violated their own resolution requirement regarding annexation applications into a district that were submitted for approval.

1. Was there available water for the project in the first place? No.
2. Then why proceed with the ANNEXATION into a district that could not legally provide the necessary water? Good question.

Also consider, 76-4 was written four years prior to the formation of the LDPCSD providing more than sufficient time to “cook the books” and conceal evidence of the scam. (Add to this another 10 years or so in background research and “deal making” makes 14 years of behind the scene planning before actually created as a “California Special District”.

SURELY THE COUNTY STUDIED THE FEASIBILITY OF SUCH EXPANDED WATER SERVICE

How could an in depth LAFCO study of potential water service to other properties in the future (referred to as SOI, or Sphere of Influence) be planned, funded, produced and made publicly available concerning possible water service in the area, WITHOUT ONE FUCKING WORD ABOUT MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT WATER LICENSE 11395 PROHIBITING WATER SERVICE OUTSIDE THE SUBDIVISION AND GOLF COURSE AREA? OR THAT MERCED RIVER WATER WAS THE ONLY SOURCE OF WATER IT EVEN HAD TO PROVIDE?

Please take a look at this document and ask yourself, IF our district only had Merced River Water to provide customers, and that water could only be served in the subdivision/golf course, why was this

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FACT NEVER MENTIONED IN THE SOI STUDY?

HAD EXISTING POLICIES BEEN FOLLOWED MR WECs WOULD HAVE BEEN PROTECTED FROM FRAUD!

SO MANY incorrect statements in this report- it assists in understanding this continuing fraud.

Like a fire safety report that ignores fact officials routinely play with matches in a petroleum refinery?

HOW WAS DISTRICT TO FURNISH WATER FOR MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT THAT IT DID NOT HAVE?

Spoiler alert: the original developers of the residential subdivision recognized this upcoming problem with WATER LICENSE RESTRICTIONS and had developed 13 groundwater wells as insurance but they were ultimately abandoned due to poor water quality or insufficient production – and although the concept of developing such groundwater wells was again considered (thus repeating the same expensive failure as original developers) they would be EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE and UNDEPENDABLE for sustaining such massive developments in a drought prone region. (That’s why subdivision lots were desirable – they had water!)

HAVE SOMETHING VALUABLE? BETTER PROTECT IT OR ELSE……

But that subdivision advantage of water availability was also the reason it was subsequently targeted as the victim of organized government water theft using a LAFCO formed FRAUD OF A COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT (a form of California Special District) as the mechanism for the theft – enter Lake Don Pedro “community services district” in 1980. This is also why “SNEAKY PETE” Kampa’s 20+ year history as a director with the CSDA (California Special District’s Association) is so crucial in understanding this massive CALIFUSION FRAUD and how it was established, maintained and can continually escape warranted intervention by authorities. Pssst! The “authorities” were always involved!

^{(Sorry-just had a brain hiccup….. the January 6th False Flag scam popped into the ‘ol grey matter for some reason.)}

So the subdivision had high quality available water (legal only for the subdivision/golf course properties however) that might SOMEHOW be utilized to develop vast areas of foothill land that LAFCO could “ANNEX” into their created LDPCSD and then later demand that same district to furnish water for all LAFCO’s approved developments.

<Wow. Sure sounds like an organized criminal enterprise using public authority, power and financial resources to accomplish unethical goals yeah?>

Yes, history as shown that our water source was indeed hi-jacked and the subdivision dealt a simultaneous and corresponding negative development variable affecting property values for perpetuity:

why buy land in a subdivision with extra and more restrictive rules (prime reason such properties were ENTITLED TO THAT LICENSED 11395 WATER) when told by developers, real estate interests, and LAFCOs themselves (by approving annexations into the LDPCSD), you could purchase “open land without a property owners association” and ….

receive the very same water for the same price?

GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION TO CIRCUMVENT WL11395 RESTRICTIONS

OK, no Merced River water outside the POU – how ’bout we blend it with inferior groundwater and then sell it outside the POU as a blended water that doesn’t violate WL11395?

But where could such funding possibly be tapped for development of extremely expensive groundwater wells in a drought prone region to mix with state restricted river water in order to provide the water necessary for LAFCO’s proposed massive developments on land it annexed into LAFCO’s created Community Services District which also happens to defy all four characteristics of a legitimate special district? (Limited service, defined service area, particular customers and service provided for cost of production)

WHERE TO OBTAIN THE NEEDED MONEY FOR THE MISDIRECTION?

1. The “Deep Pocket” of thousands of MRWECs (Merced River Water Entitled Customers of the LDP Subdivision (Originally Sierra Highlands Water Company) property owners, and
2. Government GRANT MONEY!

Yup, violated their own rules to essentially steal water from the LDP subdivision for other developments LAFCO WAS APPROVING left and right (at one time 7 different proposed subdivisions were demanding OUR WATER for their adjacent proposed developments! Yes – that 900 ac proposed “20 year slumbering subdivision” on the Shores of Lake McClure that KAMPA and LAFCO concealed from the public all that time, was one of them! Some Board Directors at that time didn’t even know about that subdivision or the other quiet “under the radar” annexations “SNEAKY PETE KAMPA” was setting up behind the scene with LAFCOs! Seriously – without board permission OR AUTHORITY!

KAMPA, CSDA, STATE WATER BOARD OFFICIALS, etc, ALL WORKING TOGETHER TO DEFRAUD MRWECs

Apparently Lake Don Pedro CSD started Kampa’s 20+ year relationship with the CSDA – California Special Districts Association – which greatly assisted Kampa with his criminal misrepresentation of our district water service boundaries to local, state and federal grant providers to obtain the cash necessary to develop EMERGENCY DROUGHT GROUNDWATER, which contrary to what customers were told at the time, would indeed later be blended and sold to other LAFCO ANNEXATIONS outside the water license POU. “Emergency drought groundwater” was the intended purpose by the government, but it never was the actual motive for the grants – it was all about expanding district water service outside the Place of Use under the water license. (QUESTION: Then why would the government provide millions of dollars for a purpose SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITED IN THE GRANT? They were lied to by PETE KAMPA and THE BORED OF DEFECTORS about the district service area for one.)

CURIOUS FACT

Why was all the information regarding PETER KAMPA’s reported affiliation with DELFT UNIVERSITY in Europe removed from the internet? Was it originally posted as disinformation for his career background? Or was it factual information suggesting Kampa’s apparent hardcore socialist orientation regarding public resource allocation and thus had to be removed when folks started asking questions?

QUITE SIMPLE ACTUALLY

For all the above and much more (did it again! Should be outside working!)

They didn’t want our subdivision property with entitled water, only our subdivision entitled water on their LAFCO ANNEXED PROPERTY!

Yup! Wanted several other residential subdivisions up here in the foothills but… WITHOUT OUR ADDITIONAL LAYER OF ONION SKIN GOVERNMENT IN THE FORM OF A PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION WITH CC&Rs, VIOLATION COMMITTEES, and ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS just to name a few.

They wanted to receive one of the PRIME SELLING POINTS FOR ACQUIRING SUBDIVISION PROPERTY (available water) WITHOUT THE NORMAL COSTS IN OBTAINING SUCH…….ie, accepting another layer of development restrictions and yearly billed assessment, etc!)

LAFCO was harming the approved existing subdivision and the majority of property owners within it (who were MANDATORY CUSTOMERS OF THE LDPCSD) by demanding this “LAFCO formed CSD” provide water outside the legal service area.

If evaluated in regards to the characteristics of an unethical, illegal and mismanaged CSD, for decades now the LAKE DON PEDRO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT has been an outstanding example as to how radical left forces can mismanage and destroy important elements of our once beautiful and proud California, and turn it into the current state of CALIFUSION it has become.

That’s it! Must get to outside work. I’ll check for spelling errors later.

My best to you and yours, Lew

August 18, 2020 @ 1006hrs

Good morning Syndie.   I am still interested in reading about the monthly activities of the LDPCSD Board of Directors so when the CD is available please advise and I will make arrangements for pickup and payment. 

Yes, I am still interested in the operations of this local SPECIAL DISTRICT public agency despite GM McGowan’s refusal to respond to my multiple requests for that MERCED IRRIGATION DISRICT 1993 shape file map (illustrating the Place of Use for Merced River water per water license 11395 which former LDPCSD GM/Treasurer Peter Kampa used as the basis for his and his BOARD OF DIRECTORS multi-year departure from the legal management of this special district.   Kampa repeatedly stated during recorded meetings, this MID shapefile map conclusively proved Merced River water could be served outside the POU boundaries established in June 1978 which were of course, the golf course and the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision (formerly Sierra Highlands Water Company).  Pete Kampa also refused years of requests for this extremely important piece of evidence. 

Since this matter has apparently been closed by the State Water Board  (after three other separate attempts at closure based on patently FALSE INFORMATION ALSO PROVIDED BY PETER KAMPA) what is the purpose of continuing to withhold this information?   

Over ten years of my life have been spent trying to understand this district’s outrageous and contradictory water service activities – four of them while on the board as an oath sworn director during which time I was provided incorrect information upon which I based my decisions.

District difficulties/dysfunction seem to have been particularly troublesome during Kampa’s two tours of employment: 1994-1997, and 2014-2019 and this shape file map lies at the center of district deceptions and customer betrayals.   I will continue my requests to secure this public information that has been used against customers since 1993, then again in 2014 when Kampa was summoned back to the LDPCSD to finish what he started back in the 1990s.  Kampa was only returned to develop and provide an alternate source (groundwater developed with government grants intended for drought relief not increased service connections outside the POU) which he and his cohorts required for development of various LAFCO annexed properties into the LDPCSD that were set up 20 years earlier without board direction or approval.  Imagine, a proposed 900 acre residential subdivision across the street from the LDPCSD which was concealed from the public for 20 years…..yet only months before Kampa’s unethical return in 2014 Mariposa County LAFCO quietly (semi-closed meeting) changed the water service boundary maps and stated those properties were legally annexed back in 1995 when Kampa began his infamous water career here in California?  No municipal service reviews or plans, no open public meetings for discission, just a quick boundary change to include Kampa’s 1994 slumbering subdivision deal on the shores of Lake McClure.

Dear General Manager/Treasurer Patrick McGOWAN,  Will the outside MIDPOU report ever be returned to the agenda packet?  

Following Peter Kampa’s second return to the LDPCSD in October 2014, this report was removed and replaced periodically many times but ultimately permanently removed from the agenda.   This is a peculiar decision for you to maintain if the district is sincere about regaining and building customer trust (presumably for the support required for the successful passage of another PROPOSITION 218 needed to once again substantially raise our WATER RATES AND FEES).  

Since this MIDPOU report was the ONLY OFFICIAL DOCUMENT which permitted customers to easily view and understand exactly where and how much Merced River water was being delivered OUTSIDE THE LEGALLY APPROVED PLACE OF USE BOUNDARY (the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision and golf course HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE LEGAL BOUNDARY)  and determined exactly HOW MUCH GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION would be required to remain compliant with the water license restrictions (how much of an equal or greater amount of groundwater to replace the Merced River water illegally delivered outside the POU)  this report is essential for an accurate accounting and understanding of this SUBSIDIZED SPECIAL BENEFIT WATER SERVICE FOR LAFCO ANNEXATIONS PETE KAMPA setup without board permission back in the mid 1990s for which “normal legal customers” have been paying for since 1993 when the first groundwater well was required and developed as a legal remedy for the initial water service delivery violations outside the subdivision which have only continued through the years.  (Kampa actually proposed this ridiculous cycle in a drought prone foothill area   ….  annex more land into the district, construct another  ½ million dollar groundwater well, annex more land – develop more groundwater wells.  Absolute insanity driven by decades of greed and deception.)

I do not understand why the MID shape file map and the MIDPOU compliance reporting are still being withheld from the 99% of legal customers (MR WECs – Merced River Water Entitled Customers) who must pay these increasingly expensive bills as mandatory customers of the LDPCSD.   Personally I could never support another rate and fee increase until assured these illegal activities have indeed been terminated once and for all and not just more deviously concealed from the bill paying public as  has been the case for the last 20 years with great  assistance from other cooperating county/state departments and entities such as the Tuolumne and Mariposa County Planning Departments, their Local Agency Formation Commissions, and other Kampa agent operatives implanted within State water agencies such as the State Water Board Division of Water Rights and Department of Water Resources.

How can the District assure customers it is now being honest about where Merced River water will be delivered in the future and thus deserving of another substantial PROPOSITION 218 rate and fee increase?  (The money from the first PROP 218 was used by Kampa and his Board of Directors to fund his 2014 LAFCO ANNEXATION expansion plans.)

Quite simple:  Honestly respond to legitimate questions and requests for public information while re-establishing the Outside Merced Irrigation District Place of Use report in the agenda so customers can see for themselves where their expensive EMERGENCY DROUGHT GROUNDWATER is actually going and for what other purposes than intended residential domestic use.  (ie, And not more commercial cattle ranches OUTSIDE the MIDPOU owned, developed and operated by sitting LDPCSD Board Directors!)

Until next month,

Lew Richardson    

GM/TREASURER PETE KAMPA at yesterday’s meeting refused to identify which map was being used for election purposes this year, so another 80+ mile round trip to Mariposa County Elections office.  Long as I was going to be in Mariposa thought I might as well drop by the Board of Supervisors Meeting and torture them with my continuing blah blah blah complaints about PETE KAMPA and his Board permitting the reconfiguration of our surface water treatment plant into a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FACILITY TO CIRCUMVENT WL11395 WITH PUBLIC FUNDS TO THE SPECIAL BENEFIT OF LAND DEVELOPER’S OUTSIDE THE POU OF THE WATER LICENSE!

PUBLIC COMMENT TO MARIPOSA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Tuesday, MAY 22 2018

“Good morning Supervisors, oh boy, for decades thousands of innocent and legal Merced River Water Entitled Customers of the Lake Don Pedro subdivision have been FORCED by the LAFCO created LAKE DON PEDRO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT, to SUBSIDIZE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTED SERVICE FOR  PROPERTIES LAFCO ALSO ANNEXED INTO THE DISTRICT THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE LEGAL PLACE OF USE  for Merced River water under license 11395.    

All of these annexations were apparently accomplished without a LEGITIMATE MUNICIPAL SERVICE REVIEW CURRENT EXAMPLE: A 900 ACRE PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE LDPCSD HAS BEEN ACTIVELY CONCEALED FROM THE PUBLIC FOR OVER 20 YEARS AWAITING A GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION SUPPLY FOR DEVELOPMENT WHICH GENERAL MANAGER PETE KAMPA HAS RECENTLY PROVIDED THROUGH USING  PUBLIC MONEY AND RESOURCES THROUGH GOVERNMENT GRANTS TO  PRIVATE LAND DEVELOPER, TO OUR, … ah …DISTRICT BUT, BEING USED FOR PRIVATE LAND DEVELOPMENT BENEFIT.

TODAY’S APPEARANCE was prompted by GM KAMPA’s refusal at yesterday’s Board Meeting to identify the map referenced in the election resolution your board, and your elections, excuse me, I’ve got a lot of scribble notes, your elections official will receive despite the fact the STATE WATER BOARD’s September 2017 NOTICE OF VIOLATION  clearly detailed that all of our various CSD maps are contradictory.

Note, GM Kampa’s statement of relying on whatever map is on file with Mariposa County was also his response to multiple requests to contact the STATE WATER BOARD for a legitimate POU map which he ignored which resulted in a complaint to the state and subsequent SEPTEMBER 26 2017 STATE WATER BOARD NOTICE OF VIOLATION whose investigation is ongoing.    

A BOUNDARY CHANGE TO THE SERVICE AREA CERTAINLY APPEARS TO HAVE OCCURRED AFTER 2008 AS STATED IN THE RESOLUTION.  The LAFCo 2008 booklet of the draft Municipal Services Review clearly shows that, that property, that 900 acres is outside the boundary and still within the SPHERE OF INFLUENCE (holds up and displays map to board ) ,

however, when Kampa applied for grants under the guise of supplying water to the people who needed it during the emergency drought he supplied the USDA with maps showing that it was within the boundaries. (Displays the two maps below)

Now, here’s the the crazy part that I only recently found out was that in May of 2014 there was a semi-closed meeting between LAFCO and representatives of the LDPCSD where indeed the boundary maps were changed.  I was going to attend that meeting, in fact I was going to get a ride with one of the uhm, what do you call them?  Citizen commissioners and I was told by the General Manager and the Board President I could not attend even though I had extensively researched this map issue for the four years that I was on that board.  I was not allowed to attend and what came out of it was a revised map showing (showing board map)

the subdivision in our Place of Use.  Ah, da da (whispering to self)  excuse me (looking through notes) Um OK the booklets and different maps,   Kampa was returned to the CSD  in October 2014 through a board orchestrated highly unethical closed recruitment process guaranteeing he would be the only person to be selected GM and provided access to over 1 Million dollars our district had saved after near bankruptcy we had to use a Prop 218 to remain solvent.  That money was used to leverage government grants for the development of a number of groundwater wells to provide water to service annexations Kampa himself set up twenty years before when first employed with our district and that’s the part I think is most reprehensible.  As an employee during 94-97 he pushed for annexations and when our board found out what he was doing behind the scenes he abruptly left.  But when he returned he had the experience of twenty years on the California Special Districts ah, ah, Association board came in and like a blitzkrieg just took over our district and our board just relinquished all powers to him.  Our water reports were discontinued, our legal notifications and  money spent –where it was going was discontinued, we don’t even know what our actual water loss is, we know that treated water on on a regular basis we’re losing between 31% to 47% of water every month.  And during March we lost 61% of course because of the floods.  In addition to this we have no idea how much water is being loss – the raw water, (supervisor points to time clock) I’m sorry, (papers rustling) the raw water loss between the lake and the, the ah, treatment plant this is something that has been going on for decades.  (Papers rustling on podium) I’ve been to the sheriff’s office, the district attorney’s office, the grand jury, I wrote an 89 complaint to, an 89 page complaint to the Department of Justice and was advised to seek private legal counsel.   This is absolutely reprehensible.  Thank you very much for your time.

(pause, walking away – I turn and say)

Oh, any questions?  I’m sorry.  (inaudible) Chair recognizes Supervisor Jones, yes I am…let’s set up a meeting and we’ll talk about it. 

OK, I (stammering)  ahh, since you spoke up I should tell you at yesterday’s meeting Kampa and the directors denied everything that you had reported to this board as happening.  The directors, ah, didn’t ah, ah answer their phones and one didn’t want to talk with you, they said that was all wrong, that people probably only called and let it ring twice then hung up.  They denied what you said and Sir, I believe you. 

 

Thank you”  

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So the map below is the new elections map (evidently based on the map approved a few months before Kampa’s unethical return in October 2014 during that “semi closed LAFCO/LDPCSD Meeting” where everyone got their maps squared away.  This map was sent by Syndie in the LDPCSD office to Mariposa County (and Tuolumne County).  Why was this particular map sent to county elections in 2014 and not already on file if Kampa’s “pet annexation” was above board in 1995?   Were district maps sent in for every election – NO!

Think about that, if it were the same map since 2008….why resubmit?  EVERYONE – especially sitting directors on the board (NOT INVOLVED WITH THIS COVER UP)- would have known there was an APPROVED 900 ac PROPOSED SUBDIVISION ADJACENT TO THE ONE WHOSE MANDATORY CUSTOMERS HAD TO PAY FOR THE NEW SUBDIVISION’S EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION!!!!

THIS FACT (PUBLIC SUBSIDIZED GROUNDWATER FOR PRIVATE OUTSIDE POU DEVELOPERS) SHOULD BE A KNOWN DISCLOSURE FOR EVERY PROPERTY TITLE TRANSFER IN OUR SUBDIVISION BECAUSE WE ARE MANDATORY CUSTOMERS AND TRAPPED!

NOTICE WHO PLOTTED THIS IN THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER AND THE DATE…..2008?  Same thing KAMPA did with WL11395 – slipping in his own fake maps that have been sent everywhere!  I’ve seen some of these KIM TOPIE MAPS  (she was a former LDPCSD employee who with her brother-in-law the General Manager Bob Kent, had been terminated from their positions in 2008.  I also understand she was not officially trained or certified to plot official maps!!!) where the SOI is about twice as large as the MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS ENTIRE SUBDIVISION!  When our CSD purchased that GIS PLOTTER back then they were cranking out incorrect (fake) maps left and right and there were subdivisions proposed all over the place!

The LAFCO MAP BELOW, is the same map still displayed on the LDPCSD website which those of us not privy to KAMPA’s “slumbering subdivision” believed were the actual boundaries!  Several directors did not know of this 1995 annexation of a proposed 900 acre subdivision on the shores of Lake McClure until I told them!   What a secret!  And motive for KAMPA’s quick unethical return—- to finish his slumbering annexation by providing GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION service before anyone noticed —– and all paid for with public funds!

Ahhhh, but remember the STATE WATER BOARD indicated there was another OUTSIDE POU PROPERTY ACCOUNT ADDED IN 2016?   That means Kampa also violated DISTRICT RESOLUTION 2013-4 which stopped the continued service outside the POU paid by the 99% of legal customers.

(BUT REMEMBER: even though apparently successful in surreptitiously annexing it under the radar and keeping it out of the public’s view for 20 years, it is still OUTSIDE THE PLACE OF USE FOR MERCED RIVER WATER – and that was the BIG SECRET KAMPA was concealing – the real reason for GROUNDWATER WELL DEVELOPMENT WITH PUBLIC FUNDS!  That’s why he made two separate attempts to abolish the prohibition against further service outside the water license POU!  They had to get the water to that development before people started asking questions.   Yup, Sneak, sneak, sneaky Pete.)

OH YEAH, I also put in a request for the August 1980 LAFCO metes and bounds field survey map which was established the initial boundaries of the LAKE DON PEDRO CSD  —   a map NO ONE APPARENTLY HAS ON FILE!  Something very wrong here folks.

(Remember that the facilities and assets of the prior SIERRA HIGHLANDS WATER COMPANY wasn’t even transferred to the new LAFCO created LDPCSD until the CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION approval in January 1981 – effective Feb 1981.)

Sure appears as though TUOLUMNE AND MARIPOSA COUNTY LAFCos created our LDPCSD and then by way of annexing lands into its service area that it could not possibly provide water service due to WL11395 RESTRICTIONS ON RIVER USE, essentially forced their new district into the extremely expensive proposition of GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FOR MERCED RIVER TRANSFERS in a known drought prone, fractured rock geologic region where ground wells are unreliable – while the thousands of INNOCENT BUT MANDATORY DISTRICT WATER CUSTOMERS OF THE SUBDIVISION PICKED UP ALL THE ADDITIONAL AND ESCALATING COSTS FOR PERPETUITY!  (That’s why the original developer abandoned all their ground wells….arsenic and other contaminants and poor quantity production!)

Sure the counties turn a blind eye to requests for help – it benefits them in developing thousands of acres of foothill grazing land with water service they don’t have to provide!  ONLY COLLECT TAXES ON DEVELOPMENT ETC.

 

And to think the grand jury referred to our district as a “problem child”.

Well guess who the negligent – perhaps even criminal parents were  Mr. DISMISSIVE GRAND JURY?

 

You know, considering how the board is permitting PETE KAMPA to run this Community Services District and clamping down on and denying customers information – perhaps I have been going about this all wrong trying to inform fellow LDPCSD customers to rally support in a designated disadvantaged community?

Maybe I should not telegraph what is happening on my side of this argument equation any longer?  You know, keep working, but go dark for a while?

Just a thought.

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

PS:   ANYONE CATCH MY DUMB ASS MISTAKE FOR TODAY’s ROAD TRIP?  lol   . . . . . . . . . . .

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NEVER IDENTIFIED MYSELF TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BEFORE PUBLIC COMMENT!

lol

(Fortunately our District II supervisor knows who to blame!  lol)

 

 

 

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Hello!  I have a bunch of stuff to do but wanted to pass on some of the important particulars of yesterday’s meeting….

Three meeting attendees: two customers and the LDPCSD Auditor.  Another packed board room.

The Chief Plant Operator Randy Gilgo was absent.

Full board (one a little late).

I read Wes Barton’s letter into the record during public comment (posted yesterday) and followed with mine below (yeah, I know, blah, blah, blah …)

“Oath Sworn Directors have a duty to this District to abide by CALIFORNIA STATE LAW in the performance of their elected/appointed positions.  Contrary to this duty, directors have rarely asked PERTINENT often OBVIOUS – COMMON SENSE QUESTIONS regarding the special interest direction GM/TREASURER PETE KAMPA and his limited liability management company has pushed this public agency.  The board’s dereliction of duty began in October 2014 with the failure to perform a routine employment background check prior to KAMPA (and company) being appointed as GM/TREASURER and provided access to over one million dollars saved after near bankruptcy.  Despite the total destruction of the LDPCSD Admin Office in February 2012, even a simple “in house” review of existing records would have clearly revealed KAMPA’s many PAST MISREPRESENTATIONS of the Place of Use issue when first employed here between 1993-1997 when very busy pushing LAFCO annexations into this district.  The Board’s failure to “represent the interests of the MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS OF THE LDP SUBDIVISION” have not only continued but have escalated in severity.   Even after many public meeting requests spanning over a year for the Board and/or GM to simply contact the STATE WATER BOARD and obtain the OFFICIAL PLACE OF USE MAP FOR MERCED RIVER WATER, directors rejected those COMMON SENSE REQUESTS choosing instead to continue following the district management direction established by Kampa.   This board has consistently approved the use of District resources for Kampa to continue attempts at completing what he started 20 years earlier with the many LAFCO ANNEXATIONS that could not develop without an ALTERNATE SOURCE – OF GROUNDWATER PRODUCTION.  Even a 900 acre proposed residential subdivision right across the road here was quietly approved in 1995 during Kampa’s first tour but actively kept a secret from the public until only a few months prior to Kampa’s unethical return in 2014.  Even today KAMPA once again requests the board to approve an extremely suspicious annual audit WITHOUT EVEN READING IT which has already been the subject of multiple corrective revisions for several months.  Unanimous board decisions mean little when dedicated to violating both the trust of customers and the law. You should all be ashamed, with the noted exception of newcomer Director Mrs. Sperry.”

AUDIT PRESENTATION – HOW ABOUT SOME “UP FRONT” SURPRISINGLY GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE?

The Board  DID NOT “BLINDLY” accept GM/TREASURER KAMPA’s suggested motion of approving the audit without reading the material!  (That suggested approval motion by KAMPA is not only outrageous but quite revealing as to another of his traditional methods of operation.) CONTROLLER’S  REPORT – additional information from prior years due to a new system being used by Controller.   During a JOURNAL ENTRY ADJUSTMENT discussion Kampa interrupted to explain a possible explanation for project discrepancies that were apparently identified in the audit that he meant to address the year before.

I asked about the significance of unsigned certificates in the agenda packet regarding assurance of sufficient funds to operate for the next six months – Kampa stated they only had to be signed quarterly and were just routinely included with the other material.  (Still think they would look better signed –or left out completely.)

The audit material will be sent to customers receiving electronic packet information (have you – you know what?) and will also be posted on the LDPCSD website.

Another pleasant surprise…..Kampa’s suggested motion of including WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COVERAGE FOR VOLUNTEERS WORKING FOR THE DISTRICT ALSO DID NOT PASS.  (KAMPA admitted there have been no such volunteers as of yet nor were any expected.)

I have been told that some time back there were volunteers working on a Financial Committee and assisting the district with financial matters – but not performing maintenance tasks.  I made a comment that such a plan was once again “putting the cart before the horse” and could easily result in much higher costs if volunteer “accidents” were to occur.

EDUCATING DIRECTORS

Regarding training for directors by the Special District Leadership Academy in Seaside, (an associate organization of the CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION which Kampa has been an active board member for approximately 20 years, I confirmed my support for educating directors – however, questioned what good such training would actually be IF STATE LAW could not be followed by directors or the GM?   Think about that for a moment….

PETE KAMPA is a “professional “ SPECIAL DISTRICT MANAGER AND OWNER OF KAMPACS, aka, KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS (a SPECIAL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY) ……  was previously employed at the LDPCSD between 1993-1997 working extensively on annexing much more property into the LDPCSD service area – whose land development projects would be dependent upon a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM THAT DID NOT  EXIST YET.

Kampa has also been a board member on one of the most (if not the most) powerful and influential “not for profit” water lobbying organizations in the State of California for about 20 years – yet this “professional” explains to state regulatory agencies that there has been confusion for many years regarding the PLACE OF USE MAP for MERCED RIVER WATER per WL11395?

Additionally, consider that MR KAMPA was also apparently unable to read and comprehend the clear restrictive terms cited in that license which the LAKE DON PEDRO CSD has used since formation in 1980 to provide water to customers.

But wait…..Didn’t PETE KAMPA recently receive a TRANSPARENCY AWARD from a BIG NOT FOR PROFIT WATER ORGANIZATION?

So I wonder….

what good is specialized education without the personal and/or

business integrity to properly use it for the public’s benefit?

THE BIG ISSUE:  Although GM KAMPA refused to discuss aspects of the POU VIOLATION in his digital map presentation it was never-the-less confirmed that he has indeed sent that SAME INCORRECT DISTRICT POU BOUNDARIES TO THE STATE WATER BOARD IN RESPONSE TO THEIR SEPTEMBER 28^th, 2017 NOTICE OF VIOLATION REGARDING POU RESTRICTIONS.

I am still amazed that directors have difficultly answering simple questions like:

DID YOU READ THE NOTICE OF VIOLATION?  (Board President Danny Johnson said he “scanned it”.

DID YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THE NOV CLEARLY DETAILED WHAT THE OFFICIAL POU WAS?

HAVE YOU LOOKED AT THE JUNE 1977 MAP ON THE WALL, WHICH ALTHOUGH ILLUSTRATING INCORRECT INFORMATION REGARDING “RESERVED WATER” FOR NUMEROUS LAFCO ANNEXATIONS, DID IN FACT CORRECTLY ILLUSTRATE THE LDP SUBDIVISION AS THE LEGAL POU – again, according to the STATE NOTICE OF VIOLATION?

(NOTE: That incorrect “reserved water” illustration on the June 1977 map also included the 1995 LAFCO approved 900 acre “slumbering subdivision” Kampa has actively kept a secret from the public since his 2014 return.   Incorrect maps are still being displayed on the LAKE DON PEDRO CSD website despite the contradicting factual information contained in the September 2017 STATE WATER BOARD NOV.)

Another closed session under GOVT CODE 54956.95  for PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION  (I asked for clarification of this Government Code Section as it appears to deal with district liability loss from potential law suits – President Johnson made a note of the request stating it would be addressed at the next meeting.)

 

REPORT OUT FROM CLOSED SESSION:

 

Just had a little bit of hail!  Naturally now that I’ve picked up all the tools it will likely clear up requiring them to be hauled back out for “good weather” work– but had I left them out….well you know – lol

My best to you and yours, Lew