Saturday, Jan 13, 2018-

Hey there.  Well, it’s cold (chilly to you folks in the REAL COLD), foggy, everything is obviously wet and slippery on a hillside so I decided to give my posterior a break and forego the outdoor stuff today and try to figure out what I did wrong with the last “almost music” offering.  (Yes actually, I am a little sore from working yesterday also.)

Well, one thing was, just because an audio track “appeared” to have nothing on it (in that space between thumping on a trashcan or finding the right note on the guitar with numerous failed attempts – lol) there is definitely background noise, refrigerator compressor kicking on and off, breathing, tapping my foot on the floor, canine “toenails” as the dog curiously walks by, wind, traffic, etc.  (Even accidentally recorded a “stomach growl” once while hungry. lol)    So much to consider.  I must check tracks much more carefully.

Anyway, I cleaned up the non-sync “dueling harmonicas from hell” in the intro (yes, yes, I know I don’t know how to play the darn thing – but it’s still fun trying to learn – and it was a raw track that should have been turned off anyway. NOTE TO SELF….NEVER POST WHEN TIRED UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!), dumped some of that background “didn’t know it was there stuff”, and adjusted some volume levels.  As always, I also like playing around with the L-R levels so the sound moves from one speaker to another on playback. Funny, I change some small aspect of the composition only to discover later how that seemingly insignificant change unexpectedly caused a shift in synchronization somewhere else. (Knocked the clapping out of sync!)  Start over.  (Still not right.)  I can understand how some have dedicated their lives to such intricate work but it sure is tricky even with a simplistic approach like mine.

You know, I’m sure that Casio keyboard female voice has a “6, 7, 8, 9” number key somewhere, but I didn’t have time for a full-out search to find the missing “9” in “11395”, so filled it in with my own voice (but that track was muted on the first post). [No, the digital voice did not have a speech impediment with the word “nine” —-“Number nine, number nine”?  Remember?  That very strange recording on the The Beatles White Album?  John Lennon/Yoko? …. Never mind.  I’m just old and recalled a related song.]

There’s much more I’d like to do with this particular project (especially on the video side) but time, as always, seems so limited – however, I do learn something every time I mess around with the stuff so I guess it is all forward motion.

Oh yeah, Monday’s REGULAR LAKE DON PEDRO CSD Monthly Board Meeting has also been changed to a SPECIAL MEETING (as was the meeting in December) which is therefore conducted under slightly different rules and policies.  As anticipated, GM Kampa received an extension for his answer to the State Water Board Notice of Violation.  There’s a rather peculiar letter by GM Kampa to the USDA with copies to government representatives, apparently requesting some sort of assistance in receiving those federal funds for the groundwater wells which are now clearly being used for an “ANNEXATION EMERGENCY WATER DEMAND” rather than the “DROUGHT EMERGENCY WATER DEMAND” as was intended and “sold to the public” – but you know my opinion on that matter so why bother with it now, right?

Let’s part on a happy note.

 

(Although if I play it, perhaps a little off key – right?  Lol)

Stay warm.

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

My best to you and yours, Lew

Seems I always end up going just a little bit too far with adding “stuff” to these experimental compositions.  Everything will be going along pretty good until I pass some invisible line of “too much” in mixing resulting in audible distortions I am unable to remove.  Sure, there may be some kind of software program that could help with this difficulty (also knowing what the hell you were doing and possessing the talent, skill, and training necessary would also be helpful, lol) but what I’m doing is still just a bit of a hobby and collecting expensive equipment will not pay for itself.  Yup, I certainly have more appreciation for the folks that professionally do this kind of work and can understand how their equipment/software would always be changing and upgrading with the new technology.  Not hard to imagine it consuming a big chunk of any profit that might be generated just to “stay on top” of the new thing.  I recall reading where Frank Zappa would perform a bunch of quickly scheduled live concerts only to obtain the cash necessary to arrange the studio time with expensive full orchestras for  special projects. Others might consider his band’s extremely lucrative (and demanded) concert schedule the epitome of success whereas for Frank Zappa it was only a means to the end of facilitating what he truly wanted to do with music.

Heck, don’t get me wrong here, I AM NOT COMPLAINING!  I have been very blessed and am having a blast with what I possess even though the technology is antiquated because it is still new to me.  The fact it is older equipment/software is the very reason I can afford it in the first place!

Recall how the cost of the first “anything” was way up there for the first models?  The first tube television sets?  Then color sets, remote controllers, built in tape recorders, digital components, etc…. prices on the old basic sets came way down (flooding market with antiquated technology that was, or would be shortly, discontinued) allowing others to afford their first television set while the continuing “new improvements” kept the price range higher for those desiring the best available.

Oh yeah, one more excuse regarding the questionable quality of this particular “expression”.  Slapped it together rather quickly – have work outside waiting – great weather and soil moisture for digging, plus there was a little confusion with revisions and I ended up downloading/uploading the incorrect one – not a dramatic difference, but the other was just a bit better – maybe.   lol

My best to you and yours, Lew

The internet is like a living entity when you consider the constantly evolving and growing “bank” of information and the new and various options for accessing and retrieving such.  Strange, one day a submitted question will produce a particular list of results, yet later the same worded question may produce a completely different set of results.   Why the difference on the same machine?  Was this “apparent new information” actually entered somewhere in the system between the two requesting times, or was a server or some other transporting/reporting device nonoperational at one point?  Were search parameters or the process somehow temporarily reinterpreted or reconfigured to produce differing results?  Could the amount of computer traffic at a specific hub during a request be a variable?   Or how I parted, or did not part, my hair this morning?  Who knows?  Perhaps I’ll research it later when I have more time.  lol

Here’s something that is a real pain in the posterior with this research stuff – after you FINALLY locate the information and select the file to print, which often contains multiple pages, sometimes the printed result is less than satisfactory for a variety of reasons.   Obvious print failures are actually preferred because I know right away what’s screwed up and must be reprinted – like in a low or malfunctioning ink cartridge situation, however, there are other subtle – less obvious errors that will drive me up a wall ass backwards with frustration, like with the information I am posting today.

“Hey Lew!  Could you make a short story a bit longer?”

“sure, if you want”

So this morning while browsing the internet I discovered some interesting December 1991 – January 1992 correspondence regarding  Resolution 92-13 prepared by the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors requesting the STATE WATER BOARD to expand the PLACE OF USE Boundary (for Merced River water under license 11395) so the South Shore Club project could develop.  (NOTE:  South Shore Club was/is also known as La Ventana Development.)  That project was ALSO SPLIT between the counties of Mariposa and Tuolumne along Bonds Flat Road between HWY 59 and HWY 132. (Like the LAKE SHORE 900 acre proposed subdivision across from the LDPCSD annexed by Mariposa in 1995 – it is also in both Mariposa and Tuolumne.)   The La Ventana Development consisted of 2,010 acres for residential development and another golf course (among other things) with 772 acre feet of Merced River water per year to be permitted if …..

(THE BIG QUALIFIER)

IF

….THE STATE WATER BOARD CONDITIONS FOR APPROVAL WERE MET BY DEVELOPERS AND OTHER JURISDICTIONAL ENTITIES INVOLVED – WHICH THEY

 WERE NOT.

REM?  I posted that informative STATE DECISION because of the excellent WL history cited?

Here it is again:

wro93-02

 

 

 

The below documents may help answer why subsequent annexations into the LDPCSD (such as the proposed LAKE SHORE RANCH annexed in 1995 by Mariposa County LAFCo when Pete Kampa worked here the first time) do not have similar refusals by the STATE WATER BOARD…..Apparently “they” (County Officials, Planning Departments, LAFCos, LDPCSD Directors/Management, outside POU land developers, etc.), chose to pursue a different plan in obtaining water from the district THAT DID NOT INVOLVE PERMISSION FROM THE STATE WATER BOARD OR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE WATER LICENSE.

GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION QUIETLY PAID FOR BY THE MAJORITY MANDATORY LDPCSD MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS OF THE LAKE DON PEDRO SUBDIVISION WHO DO NOT REQUIRE SUCH SUBSTITUTION TO BE COMPLIANT WITH THE WATER LICENSE.

 

Groundwater substitution?

Frankly I still do not understand the logic behind the GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION IN LAKE DON PEDRO.

I can understand the common meaning of conserving surface water through groundwater transfers for one reason or another, but that is NOT WHAT THE LDPCSD IS DOING.

How can a remedy for existing PAST VIOLATIONS be turned into a PERMANENT DISTRICT POLICY to expand water service outside the POU of the license?

I have read much about GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION on various state websites (and else where) and thus far have not found how “LDPCSD’s groundwater substitution policy” has been sanctioned by “AUTHORITIES” as a legitimate policy or method for a public water company to intentionally, and repeatedly, “circumvent state water license restrictions” to serve water where it would otherwise be unavailable.

Here is some very interesting research into this GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION: (Link to download)

https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=hastings_environmental_law_journal

 

CORRECT A KNOWN VIOLATION IS ONE THING, BUT A POLICY FOR THE FUTURE?

I can understand existing prior violations having been corrected with groundwater substitution but a policy for continued expansion outside the POU for perpetuity?  You know what they say, follow the money.  Who benefits?  Well, certainly the private developer who otherwise could not receive MERCED RIVER WATER gets cheap quality water as though entitled like in the subdivision; the counties benefit because they don’t have to supply the water for developments they tax and receive revenue; and of course water district mangers, engineers, management companies etc., all benefit because more work equates to more compensation.   Seems the only ones losing on this scam are the MR WECs!

(And of course the MERCED RIVER.)

Maybe this “GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FOR DROUGHT AREA WATER SERVICE EXPANSION WITH PUBLIC FUNDS” is on the internet somewhere but I haven’t discovered it yet – maybe tomorrow I’ll try parting my hair differently?  Lol   Still would be strange though.

Why would the State claim to support conservation and responsible use of such a natural resource (Merced River water from Yosemite National Park is a watershed icon) when it simultaneously provides an illogical, unethical, and unsustainable alternative to specifically circumvent other state regulations and restrictions governing responsible use?

Yup, I do not understand considering this recognized drought prone area, designated high fire severity zone (and disadvantaged community), unreliable groundwater production from extremely expensive wells in a fractured rock geology requiring arsenic and other contaminant removal with various monitoring and state reporting requirements.  Groundwater sources that the State of California has been attempting to protect for future generations with strict detailed regulation and enforcement?

But a permissible and authorized special benefit water service in the LDPCSD for private land developers paid for with public funds by

MR WECs ?

MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS

None of this makes sense.

“PSST!  HEY LEW!  BACK TO THE SUBJECT”

“sure”

So I was preparing to scan those pages into the computer this morning (so I could post on lakedonpedro.org for viewers) but noticed the last line on a number of pages was missing so there was no continuity of thought between the end of the preceding page and beginning of the next. (Hum, rather like this post, eh?)   This doesn’t happen all the time but it sure does slow down the routine when it does!  (Print, cuss, scan, cuss, download, cuss, and upload cuss, then write around…..you get the idea  lol, cuss)

I certainly didn’t want suspicious handwritten or typed additional words to “complete” these official government documents (what do you think I am?  A local public agency!)   So, I cleared the print spooler (always have to look that up) and printed each page separately.  I thought these documents were important as clearly illustrating another reason why the SOUTH SHORE CLUB project had been abandoned – it wasn’t

JUST ABOUT MONEY.

This was the project containing the “shape file” (map) that Pete Kampa ultimately used 24 years later in his recent attempt to fabricate a new PLACE OF USE map as the FINAL ANSWER TO THE LDPCSD WATER SERVICE AREA FOR MERCED RIVER WATER using a $35,000 digital mapping project the Board of Directors approved.

Do you recall how that “shape file” played such an important role in Pete Kampa’s plan?

Kampa and his Board of Directors steadfastly refused to SIMPLY CONTACT THE STATE WATER BOARD for an official water service map with PETE KAMPA as “THE VOICE OF THE DISTRICT” repeatedly advising:

“WE WILL USE THE MAP THE STATE HAS ON FILE”.

Sounded good, yeah?

Ahhhhhh, but it was only

traditional

KAMPASPEAK – KAMPAGANDA!

Pssst….   Kampa never revealed which state agency possessed his “secret map” (and the foundation for his digital mapping project to create an incorrect map with an expanded POU), much less how old, obsolete and immaterial that map would be to current circumstances – but he certainly knew the facts.

 

Pete Kampa has been very disingenuous regarding this subject for over twenty years.

Why would he change now?

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

 

POSTED DOCUMENTS BELOW:

December 6, 1991 –         MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT LETTER TO SWRCB RE MARIPOSA PROPOSED ORDER TO       SWRCB

December 27, 1991 –       ATTORNEY LETTER TO COUNTY COUNSEL

December 30, 1991 –      MARIPOSA COUNTY COUNSEL LETTER TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

January 7, 1992-             AGENDA ACTION FORM MARIPOSA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISOR

January 7, 1992 –            MARIPOSA COUNTY RESOLUTION NO. 92-13 

 

 

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MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT LETTER TO SWRCB RE MARIPOSA PROPOSED ORDER TO SWRCB

 

ATTORNEY LETTER TO COUNTY COUNSEL

 

 

MARIPOSA COUNTY COUNSEL LETTER TO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

 AGENDA ACTION FORM MARIPOSA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISOR

MARIPOSA COUNTY RESOLUTION NO. 92-13

My best to you and yours, Lew

“CHEAP”

“SKINFLINT”

(Save flint shavings)

“SQUEEZE A NICKEL UNTIL IT CRAPS!”

  (Reference to old style Buffalo Head Nickels and holding on to them so tight they…..well, you know the variations.)

JUST OLD TIME DEROGATORY TERMS FOR MODERN COMMON SENSE CONSERVATION?

 

While showering this morning I had a realization of how a common practice integrated into my life (for various things),  had been skillfully taught by my Father whose “trick” had been INSPIRED from his living formative years during the Great Depression when millions of Americans desperately wanted for almost everything.

I recall this simple procedure started for me back in the sixties when my brother and I were deemed old enough to “make” our own breakfast orange juice without adult supervision – but with permission naturally.  Of course this milestone of maturation may have also doubled as a form of temporary child distraction to insure some limited (and valuable) “parental privacy” that was rapidly disappearing like……, well, orange juice.   My brother gave Dad’s eulogy during which he humorously noted how Dad had returned from TDY (Tempory Duty – often extended periods of time when the aircraft was  away from home base) and had a sort of TREASURER HUNT set up for us – how a certain amount of money – made up of various denominations of coins (both my brother and I collected coins when younger) – had been placed in a certain area for us to find –  kind of like an Easter Egg hunt….. [UPDATE @ 1900hrs:  didn’t recall for sure when first posted but Mom confirmed….as my brother had said…..the coins were actually tossed in a snowbank in Grand Forks North Dakota upon Dad’s return!   LOL!] – however, in this “returning from TDY reality” there was not quite the “total amount of treasure” as previously understood which naturally kept the two of us preoccupied trying to locate the remainder while Mom and Dad could privately discuss everything that had transpired while separated.

Find a couple….do another count.

Find a few more…do another count….”What’s missing?”  Do some math…..

“Keep looking!  ….. They’ve got to around here here somewhere!”

lol

“Anything valuable requires protection”

Yup, what a modern and convenient miracle concentrated orange juice was back then without having to cut oranges in half, place them on the “juicer”, pressing and twisting down on the halves with juice, pulp, and seeds squirting and popping out all over the place…especially your eyes!

How could concentrated frozen orange juice in a can possibly be made any better?   Well, Dad had a secret to share with us boys regarding his tried and true recipe:

when such containers instructed add “three cans cold water” to that “glob” of previously frozen concentrated product, 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 cans of water could easily be added without noticeable decrease in consistency or flavor.  

And like magic an “extra” glass or so of orange juice could be created with every can of prepared concentrated juice!   Naturally, subsequent child conducted experiments to increase production of “extra juice” failed because like so many things in life there is a natural and definitive “sweet spot” and regarding concentrated orange juice that spot was a mixture of between 3-1/2  to 4-1/2 cans of water (depending upon the manufacturer) – otherwise the taste and appearance of “too watered-down orange juice” resulted.  (As I recall Mom wasn’t wild about the added water recipe but reluctantly went along with the concept – perhaps a result of acknowledging the benefit of having kids also preoccupied with the correct mixture of their breakfast juice as in their searching for treasurer?)

So why did I think of this orange juice recipe while in the shower this morning?

(NO, not the obvious humorous possibility…..

Morning…..?  Fluids?   Orange juice?  Shower drain?—Lazy…?  Pressure…?    

never mind.)

So why did I think of this orange juice recipe in the shower this morning?

Because I have been using the same “almost empty” shampoo container for about a month now without any negative effects – still have plenty of suds, cleansing capability, and a lasting scent just by adding a little water to the bottle after each use.

Just a habit.

So while adding a little water to the shampoo bottle this morning I laughingly muttered to myself and companion

(who was outside the stall patiently waiting for her traditional licking of the shower floor routine)

“what a cheap bastard” –

yet, simultaneously appreciating the fact I was actually sensibly conserving, smiled, looked up and said,

“Thanks Dad”

All a matter of perspective I imagine.

 

 

My best to you and yours, Lew

 

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Then for some reason felt the urge to share.  Go figure.

When I wrote last year (yesterday – Part 5 of that December 14, 2017 “totally special” Special Meeting – lol) that I believed the LAKE SHORE RANCH LAFCo (Local Agency Formation Commission) approved annexation into the Lake Don Pedro CSD back in 1995  (during PETE KAMPA’s first employment tour with our district, 1994-1997) was split between both TOULUMNE and MARIPOSA COUNTY, I was writing from recall and didn’t have the extra time necessary to research or post the information, so figured I would do a quick update post with the LAFCo map used in the 1995 approval.  Both with and with out my traditional blah, blah, blah written comments!

The point I was trying to make was, or rather the question I was raising, is PETE KAMPA once again attempting to funnel PUBLIC RESOURCES THROUGH THIS TUOLUMNE COUNTY MULTI JURISDICTIONAL LOCAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN in preparation for ONCE AGAIN using the GUISE OF “SECURING EMERGENCY GROUNDWATER IN CASE OF DROUGHT”, when in actuality like his first EMERGENCY GROUND WELLS, is only continuing his original goal of providing an “ALTERNATE SOURCE”  GROUNDWATER SUPPLY to substitute the MERCED RIVER WATER THAT ALREADY DOES, AND WILL CONTINUE TO

ILLEGALLY LEAVE THE

LAKE DON PEDRO

SUBDIVISION

to serve the thousands of acres of LAFCo annexed property

KAMPA worked to include twenty years ago?

A district incidentally, which has OPERATED FOR NEAR FORTY YEARS UNDER THAT WATER LICENSE!

WHY IS THERE NO MENTION OF THIS STATE WATER LICENSE RESTRICTION ANYWHERE IN THIS MASSIVE MULTI JURISDICTIONAL HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN?

Is this failure to mention such a monumental variable to water service in the LAKE DON PEDRO AREA only preparing for some other bullshit Kampa defense of  “plausible deniability” when public funds are again obtained through misrepresentation and ultimately misappropriated to KAMPA’s  HIDDEN AGENDA FOR ANNEXED PROPERTY SUBSTITUTED GROUND WATER SERVICE CONTINUING TO PAID FOR BY THE 99% OF INNOCENT MR WECs* of the subdivision?

I was curious as to why this sudden hurried push by KAMPA for our district’s involvement with this TUOLUMNE COUNTY “HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN” until recalling  Kampa’s LAKE SHORE RANCH  project, aka, the “SLUMBERING PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION from 1995”  (across from the LDPCSD treatment plant) —  had land in TUOLUMNE COUNTY also which might require public funds from  that  county for development of ground wells for MERCED RIVER WATER SUBSTITUTION for those private land developers outside the WATER LICENSE PLACE OF USE on that side of the county line.

 

Only those intimately involved (perpetrators and beneficiaries) would know since PETE KAMPA has clamped down on public information even more since his “emergency return” in October 2014 to remedy this OUTSIDE POU CONTINUING FRAUD AGAINST MR WECs.

 

2018 will be interesting.

 

*Merced River Water Entitled CustomerS

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

My best to you and yours, Lew

Part 5: The Thursday, December 14th, 2017 LDPCSD SPECIAL MEETING resumed after recessing until 1500hrs to wait for Board President Danny Johnson to arrive (who had been absent from the meeting and not expected to attend) and cast an affirmative vote to save the approval of Pete Kampa’s Tuolumne County Commitment Resolution for a Local Hazard Mitigation Plan from defeat by a threatened     potential “no vote of conscience” by DIRECTOR EMERY ROSS.

I kid you not.

Couldn’t make this stuff up! lol

FINISHED!

FINAL END TO THAT MEANDERING, STALLING, RECESSED, WAIT FOR THE ABSENT “RINGER VOTE” PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A PUBLIC AGENCY SPECIAL BUSINESS MEETING.

(Should a wooden stake be driven through the AGENDA PACKET?)

Yup, finished before 2018 arrives like a “ringer director” to a “rigged vote”.

That “special” meeting was supposed to replace the cancelled Regular December Monthly Meeting but of course, much important “monthly data” was not provided at the special meeting.

Also some anticipated information revolving around the recent STATE WATER BOARD NOTICE OF VIOLATION and Kampa’s intended postponement of the 90 day answer deadline.  Kampa was probably successful in obtaining an extension for answering that NOTICE OF VIOLATION judging by his apparent priority list.  Maybe we’ll get that public information in January or February?  Perhaps March or April?

Of course there are a number of variables that could divert Kampa’s attention to other matters causing even further delay in the public receiving requested information, some from as long ago as a year.   Example, even a committee that was established to research and report to the public on certain financial information was disbanded and Kampa refused to provide what information was available.  [Very strange, there Kampa was during the December 14th, 2017 SPECIAL MEETING RECESS (after advising all NO BUSINESS DISCUSSIONS) sitting between two directors on the other side of the boardroom from his “normal position” with his laptop and discussing the contentious outside place of use issue while displaying new digital information regarding information concealed from the rate paying majority of customers.]

ANYWAY, KAMPA is very busy doing all sorts of stuff but if he is required to begin performing tasks he should have been doing all along anyway (such as chronologically numbering pages in his frequent “dumps” of unattached reports and agenda inserts, and actually signing certificates affirming that the district is solvent) perhaps a Summer or even Fall release date for public information might be more convenient for our very busy “remote general manager/board treasurer”?   lol

My best to you and yours, and hope you all have a Happy and safe New Year!

HOW MANY TIMES SINCE “THE RETURN OF KAMPA”?

How many times has this KAMPA failure to include page numbers come up with these unattached and/or agenda packet inserted reports?  Either way – with no page numbers the process of meeting discussion is intentionally made much more difficult for everyone to literally be “ON THE SAME PAGE”.   Devious little techniques like this are helpful for disingenuous “remote managers” like PETE KAMPA when incorrect information is sprinkled throughout a presentation.  Another KLASSIC KAMPA example of the transparency actually involved in the operation of this community services district.

EXPERIENCE ISN’T EVERYTHING – INTEGRITY FAR MORE IMPORTANT!

Heck, even with four “very active” years of previous employment with our LDPCSD that involved the annexation process, Kampa still pretends to not comprehend a simple water license PLACE OF USE map for MERCED RIVER WATER UNDER WL11395.  [Apparently this professional manager’s confusion was compounded with the inability to READ license restrictions either.]  Kampa also REPEATEDLY REFUSED multiple public meeting requests to simply contact the State Water Board for the correct map.

What?  Kampa says he doesn’t understand the map, refuses to contact the proper authority for confirmation of the correct map yet all the while CONTINUING TO DISPLAY AND REFER TO KNOWN INCORRECT MAPS on the LDPCSD boardroom wall and public agency website?

Then following his yearlong deception in pretending to be confused (while intentionally presenting disinformation to the public) – PETE KAMPA had the unmitigated gall to orchestrate the fabrication of a map with significantly enlarged POU BOUNDARIES using a $35,000 board approved digital mapping project.  (Board again completely ignored public warnings that KAMPA would indeed abuse such a project to OUTSIDE POU BENEFIT.)  The resulting KAMPA POU MAP was based on an obscure 24 year old “SHAPE FILE” (map) prepared for another project (ultimately abandoned) that was still in the approval process during KAMPA’s first tour of employment with the LDPCSD.  Imagine that?

Consider this- even AFTER the September 28^th, 2017 STATE WATER BOARD NOTICE OF VIOLATION WHICH INCLUDED NUMEROUS STATEMENTS OF POU CLARIFYING FACT  – PETE KAMPA IS STILL ARROGANTLY DISPLAYING THESE KNOWN INCORRECT MAPS TO THE PUBLIC!

Does KAMPA’s continued presentations of known incorrect information DEMONSTRATE A CONSCIOUS REJECTION FOR TRUTH and FACT?

Does continued provision of false information now (in light of the truth) suggest a reluctance to abide by state water law in the future?

PETE KAMPA has a twenty year documented history of misrepresenting the LDPCSD PLACE OF USE BOUNDARIES and has WASTED SUBSTANTIAL LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL RESOURCES IN THE PROCESS yet BOARD DIRECTORS apparently could care less and continue to approve “ALL THINGS KAMPA” without adequate research or understanding of foreseeable negative consequences.  (The last board approved RESOLUTION was based on obvious false information contained in the supporting data presented by Kampa and was pointed out to the board by the public yet the Board still approved it (after having to recess the meeting and waiting for two absent director “ringer votes”) under the apparent rationalization that customers were still receiving water so everything must be OK.)

Are Board Directors knowingly involved in this KAMPA SCHEME that has spanned decades?

Regardless, PETE KAMPA is quite the example of a professional general manager/board treasurer – not to mention recent recipient of the prestigious CSDA government transparency award.

YUP, the CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION must be very proud of, have much confidence in, and are very trusting of, their twenty year DIRECTOR PETE KAMPA.   Why else would he still be there?   Go figure.

My best to you and yours, Lew

– and it was indeed “special”

Sorry so long but I just can’t keep messing with this stuff on and off, on and off, …..  I do enjoy learning and working with it but there just is NOT ENOUGH TIME!

Once I get set up and going, well, to be honest, its easier just to KEEP GOING!  lol   Seriously.  Besides I have work outdoors that I have already put off way to long. (Not like I have “staff” or can just hire a consultant or engineering firm to take care of matters I should be attending to myself.    Besides, I enjoy the work.)  Also, a longer video is easier for viewers to follow and stay on the subject without waiting for the next segment of this continuing mess.  And make no mistake, it is a terrible mess.  Our board is apparently perfectly content with being provided false information by GM/TREASURER PETER KAMPA and then happily signing off on the same while singing how hard they are working for the customers. (Ooops!  Almost lost some MtnDew on a nostril squirt to the keyboard on that one!  lol)  Working for the customers?  Good Heavens, do they ever listen to themselves?

There will always be hardcore professional cheats and their entourage of co-conspirators, supporters, beneficiaries, followers, etc.    You know, those who tolerate, enable, participate and benefit from wrongful behavior but utilize a variety of excuses and rationalizations to justify their failure to “speak up”.  They manufacture or employ ways to make their unethical behavior more palatable while projecting that false image of an honest public servant with true integrity and a conscience.  (Example:  DIRECTOR: “Hell yes I support whatever GM/Treasurer KAMPA advocates because he is a highly trained special district professional manager with twenty years experience including four years with the LDPCSD, is President of KAMPA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS, LLC, is a CALIFORNIA SPECIAL DISTRICTS ASSOCIATION (CSDA) Board Director and recently received a CSDA TRANSPARENCY AWARD!  Why would I question his varsity VERACITY or judgement just because I didn’t think it was quite right?  Besides, I wasn’t the only one.”)

Hope you all had a Merry Christmas

 

My best to you and yours, Lew

GM KAMPA cited incorrect information about current district operations doesn’t seem to bother directors in the least.

My best to you and yours, Lew

My best to you and yours, Lew