Going to try something different to reduce the time and the space required (on the hard drive/server with this audio/video word for word stuff) to get a meeting report out. Going to jump around some of the more routine “house keeping” duties (Consent Agenda, belabored discussion going nowhere, etc.)
A potential award for the LDPCSD’s transparency in government? Wow. Sounds fantastic – if it is actually earned through providing important operational information to customers of this District on the website- like the official Merced Irrigation District Place of Use map for MERCED RIVER WATER under water license 11395.
Come to think about it, anyone interested in purchasing property in this area should be aware of the…….oh my….ahhhhh, is that why there is such reluctance to tell the truth about this GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM for outside POU developments? The SO-GOSIP influence? [Same Old Group Of Special Interest People] Don’t want new or potential owners of property in the MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED SUBDIVISION to know what they are actually buying into with the local water company? Not a great selling point that every owner of property in the Lake Don Pedro Owners Association (LDPOA) [with exceptions on the Tuolumne County side] are mandatory customers of the Lake Don Pedro Community Services District (LDPCSD) and will be subsidizing private developments outside the Merced Irrigation District Place of Use per water license 11395 through a SPECIAL BENEFIT GROUNDWATER PROGRAM?
Or is it the “movers and shakers” of the massive holdings of property outside the MID-POU that are suppressing such information getting out? Have promises already been made? Worse yet – under the table agreements or contracts for future Outside MID-POU water service? For gated/non gated residential developments? Ranchettes? Whatever!
What about KNOWN DISCLOSURES FOR PROPERTY TRANSFERS? You know, little things like whether the property is in an SRA (State Responsibility Area) for fire services? Available schools? Dangerous conditions, etc. Something is very wrong when information concerning the provision of such a necessity for life (WATER) is intentionally withheld from the existing customers, much less the public.
Years ago I suggested forming some type of Special Benefit Zone for those properties Outside the MID-POU. The District could perform treatment, storage, transportation and billing so long as the developers of these projects were financially responsible for producing the water for replacing the MERCED RIVER WATER DIVERTED for their service – and that means all of it! Monitoring, maintenance, repair, and future replacement. There are enough properties outside the MID-POU that could benefit and share the costs of such a benefit zone. Why should District customers not receiving the benefit be responsible for related expenses?
GOSH! Sure seems like we’ve heard this before huh? Yes indeed, and I will keep bringing it up until there are some answers to decades old legitimate questions. (The, “Because we said so” answer doesn’t work any more. You know, with this government transparency theory and all….lol)
Anyway, part [A] of the August 15, 2016 meeting. Transparency Award? Good Grief!
