Sure seems strange that with such detailed reports about how the LDPCSD was going to expand the district water service area by thousands of acres, there was NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THE MERCED RIVER WATER restrictions in Water License 11395 they had known about for years.

No mention of the fact that an expensive GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM was also required to replace every unit of MERCED RIVER WATER that leaves the MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE (MIDPOU) with expensive groundwater wells.

Seems they also side-stepped the little issue of ARSENIC and OTHER CONTAMINANT REMOVAL from local groundwater which must be monitored and reported to the state to ensure healthy drinking water and increases treatment costs.

Wasn’t anyone curious as to why

the LAFCO OFFICIAL DISTRICT SERVICE AREA MAP CREATED IN 1980 AT DISTRICT FORMATION from an 11 page detailed

METES & BOUNDS ENGINEERED SURVEY

JUST HAPPENED TO DISAPPEAR from multiple locations?

Sorry.  None of this makes sense except for one possibility .. –

The LAKE DON PEDRO CSD was specifically created with the intent of quietly defrauding every property owner within that residential subdivision by forcing  them to quietly and unwittingly subsidize a SPECIAL BENEFIT WATER SERVICE FOR DEVELOPERS OUTSIDE THE MIDPOU.

This SPECIAL BENEFIT Outside MIDPOU water service could only be ACCOMPLISHED WITH AN EXPENSIVE GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM created and maintained with public funds as a FINANCIAL BENEFIT and development incentive for PRIVATE LAND DEVELOPERS who were legally prohibited from receiving MERCED RIVER WATER.

Pretty simple actually

THEY DID NOT WANT OUR SUBDIVISION LAND WITH MERCED RIVER WATER

THEY WANTED OUR SUBDIVISION MERCED RIVER WATER ON THEIR LAND.

ANYWAY, here’s some interesting reading although it sure doesn’t seem like county officials gave a “rat’s asset” about that 99% MAJORITY of MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS in the subdivision, does it?

Residential  citizen/customers were betrayed by local government in the name of third party land developers

pursuing greater profit margins with cheap quality water.

screwed the  <MR WECs> once again

My best to you and yours, Lew

(DOCUMENT CONTROL AT BOTTOM LEFT OF PAGE)

Check out this 1985 PRO DISTRICT EXPANSION OUTSIDE MIDPOU SUPPORT LETTER.

WITHOUT A SINGLE WORD as to where MERCED RIVER WATER could legally be served!

N  THEIR JOB?CC

WAIT A MINUTE! PAGE A2…..4th paragraph….Does it sound like all that property around the EMERY ROSS CATTLE RANCH (formerly part of Sturtevant Ranch) was not yet annexed into the district boundary?

“This reservoir can serve by gravity outside District boundaries in Section 34 Township to to South Range 15 East, portions of Penon Blanco Road, Highway 132, and The Old State Highway extending south, east, and west from this section.  In addition, the District is committed to serve the lands of Sturtevant in this area.”

“…can serve by gravity….”    and not,  “….does serve by gravity….”???

WHAT DOES THE ORIGINAL (DECADES AWOL) 1980 LAFCO FORMATION MAP ILLUSTRATE?

Was all that STURTEVANT PROPERTY already included in 1980?  Or was it later added thanks in no small part to this “EXPANSION ADVOCACY LETTER BY BINKLEY ENGINEERS” just before the major 1987 SPHERE OF INFLUENCE BOUNDARY CHANGES TO BE MADE?  (When LAKE SHORE RANCH and others were presumably brought into the District SOI – despite the district’s inability to provide MERCED RIVER WATER to those properties.)

THAT 1980 FORMATION MAP IS THE KEY TO MUCH OF THIS-

is that why it has been missing since shortly after LDPCSD formation?

SHOULD NOT A LAFCO (LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION) BE REQUIRED TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN ACCURATE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE SPECIAL DISTRICTS THEY FORM WITHIN THEIR JURISDICTIONS?

CHECK IT OUT!

“In addition, the District is committed to serve the lands of Sturtevant in this area”?

(Pretty subjective opinion based on a relative’s suspicious 10 meter agreement to increase the service area 17 years earlier and 12 years before the LDPCSD WAS EVEN FORMED!)

“COMMITTED TO SERVE”?   Not according to the CPUC approval of the transfer of facilities and assets to the new LDPCSD!

Service to the STURTEVANT RANCH PROPERTY certainly could have been argued to be one of those “LIABILITIES” completely owned by SIERRA HIGHLANDS and NOT TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE NEW LDPCSD! (Heck, SIERRA HIGHLANDS CREATED THE MESS – THEY SHOULD OWN IT!  Not the innocent MR WECs of the subdivision!

IS THIS WHY LAFCO PREEMPTIVELY CHANGED THE SERVICE AREA BEFORE THE FACILITY/ASSETS WERE LEGALLY TRANSFERRED BY THE CPUC TO THE LDPCSD?

IF the 1980 map does show STURTEVANT within the DISTRICT BOUNDARIES as has been represented for decades.

However, IF that original 1980 map shows STURTEVANT outside the DISTRICT BOUNDARIES, then perhaps the STURTEVANT RANCH was placed within DISTRICT BOUNDARIES later after BINKLEY’S EXPANSION ADVOCACY LETTER IN 1985 just before the 1987 SOI Changes?  BUT WAIT!  That’s SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, NOT LEGAL DISTRICT SERVICE AREA BOUNDARIES!

THE MISSING LAFCO 1980 MAP WHICH WAS BASED ON 11 PAGES OF A DETAILED “METES AND BOUNDS” ENGINEER FIELD SURVEY, MUST BE RE-CREATED FOR ANY CHANCE OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN REGARDS TO THE MAJOR PRIVATE LAND DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT WERE CLEARLY INFLUENCING THE FORMATION, DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNED OPERATION OF THE LAKE DON PEDRO CSD.

Thad Binkley orchestrates a “10 meter deal” outside the permitted service area in 1968  (expanding service area just as Sierra Highlands desired), then 17 years later G R BINKLEY, of BINKLEY ASSOCIATES, advises LAFCO that the DISTRICT WAS COMMITTED TO THAT SELF SERVING AGREEMENT TO THE BENEFIT OF THE ENGINEERING FIRM AND THEIR LONG ACQUAINTED LAND DEVELOPER ASSOCIATES IN THE AREA?     

Sure seems like a conflict of interest for the DISTRICT’s ENGINEERING FIRM (and prior associates of SIERRA HIGHLANDS) to represent the expansion interests of land developers NOT ENTITLED TO MERCED RIVER WATER, while simultaneously having the responsibility of maintaining the treatment system to the benefit of the legal customers in the subdivision. 

Activities supporting further outside MIDPOU development for land developers and real estate interests represent a clear liability and detriment to the legal customers of the entitled subdivision who must bear the financial consequences and reduction in efficiency of a surface water treatment plant designed, constructed and intended to serve their subdivision interests. 

“….NATURAL SOURCE FOR SERVICE….”

Even KAMPA’s LAKE SHORE RANCH “SLUMBERING ANNEXATION” was referenced back in this 1985 letter (ten years prior to annexation) while “our engineers” were pushing for further outside MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE water service!

AND NOW I finally understand how the PINEY CREEK ISLAND AREA OF POTENTIAL DISTRICT WATER SERVICE  (in district, paying nothing but can vote in elections) came about…..that deal was apparently contingent on its transferring their “WATER RIGHTS”.   But only AFTER BEING ANNEXED into the district by LAFCO –   Ooops!  Guess what?  

No water rights to transfer – but the annexation was complete and legal through LAFCO?  Sure smells like fraud to me.

The benefits of providing district inclusion- property tax benefits, not required to pay anything to the district, get to vote and determine who represents the interests of those outside the service area, yet the very CONSIDERATION FOR THE DEAL (water rights on Lake McClure) DID NOT EXIST!  And no one knew or investigated or researched the matter

UNTIL AFTER THE ANNEXATION WAS COMPLETE?  Oh Please. 

Perhaps LAFCO was going for one of those “TRANSPARENCY CERTIFICATES” Kampa just obtained for the LDPCSD?  lol

Kind of like performing mechanical work on that new vehicle in the sales lot prior to purchase, then purchasing the same with a RETURNED INSUFFICIENT FUND CHECK – but never-the-less being able to keep and use the vehicle while the auto lot pays all associated expenses for as long as the vehicle is owned! sweet for the thief.

OUTRAGEOUS.

Notice also the

EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE PROPOSITION OF

INCREASING THE TREATMENT PLANT CAPABILITIES WAS ALSO DEPENDENT UPON EVEN MORE

EXPANSION OUTSIDE THE MIDPOU!

~~~

“I am sorry, but hospital emergency room

policy requires that I shoot you with this gun

to assure your injuries are sufficiently severe

to require emergency room dedicated services,

but first, please sign this form accepting financial

responsibility for the cost of the bullet and gun rental,

and then we may proceed.  Where do you want it dumb ass?”

~~~

YUP

MR WECs

of the subdivision were getting screwed from every direction possible and didn’t even know it!

Can’t you just imagine some of the LAFCO discussions at the time????  

“Well, golly gee…. based on all this solid evidence for district expansion and our careful inspection of the facts, ….. guess we have no choice but to approve more and more annexations into the district?  This is especially so because the original SIERRA HIGHLANDS WATER COMPANY officials, engineers, employees and hundreds of wannabe customers all say that’s how the COUNTIES will be able to develop all that adjacent property with this massive “foothill water empire” we build ON PAPER today thanks to the LDPCSD. 

Besides, when you think about it, we will be assisting the good citizens and residents of the subdivision in obtaining a better treatment plant in the future by annexing as much as we can right now!      What about that 300 +/- acres by my cousin’s place?

Hey!  Who’s up for lunch? Is Sierra buying? The surf and turf was excellent last time.  Anyone try the Roast Beef?”

(not so lol)

THE LEGAL CUSTOMERS IN THE LDP SUBDIVISION FROM THE VERY BEGINNING PLANNING PHASE FOR THE LAKE DON PEDRO CSD, WERE BEING SET-UP FOR A COSTLY ROLLER COASTER RIDE OF TREATMENT PLANT RE-CONFIGURATIONS, UPGRADES, and NEW OPERATING PROCEDURES, but most importantly, DECADES OF DYSFUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT ASSURED THROUGH DISTRICT GERRYMANDERING, ALL FOR THE SAKE OF CONTINUING DISTRICT EXPANSION  OUTSIDE THE LEGAL PLACE OF USE FOR MERCED RIVER WATER !

FULL CIRCLE HUH?

NEED MORE OUTSIDE PLACE OF USE ANNEXATIONS TO JUSTIFY THE ENORMOUS COSTS INVOLVED IN EXPANDING THE TREATMENT PLANT TO SERVE MORE OUTSIDE PLACE OF USE ANNEXATIONS!

SAME PROCESS KAMPA HAS ANNOUNCED, ANNEX MORE OUTSIDE MIDPOU PROPERTIES, DEVELOP MORE GROUNDWATER WELLS, ANNEX MORE OUTSIDE MIDPOU PROPERTIES, DEVELOP MORE GROUNDWA……

HECK.. just “charge” the whole financial nightmare to the innocent and apathy cultivated  MR WECs of the Lake Don Pedro residential subdivision – such easy marks….again, and again, and again!

And so it has been viewers- the legal MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS of THE LDP SUBDIVISION have been paying for this SPECIAL BENEFIT WATER SUBSIDY FOR LAND DEVELOPERS FOR 37 YEARS and PETE KAMPA was simply returned to re-activate that plan by furnishing an enhanced GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM financed with public resources although obviously dedicated to the special interests of profit chasing private land developers.

 ~

Must get away from this-

I’m trapped in a cycle too-

Always my best to you and yours,

Yet posted by a frustrated Lew!

MR WEC

PLEASE NOTE: Current MARIPOSA COUNTY employees are OBVIOUSLY NOT RESPONSIBLE for what may have occurred decades ago regarding the FORMATION, MONITORING, and MODIFICATION OF OPERATIONS and PERMITTED SERVICE AREAS of the LAKE DON PEDRO COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT.  

Of course there is the unwritten obligation to “defend the county…no matter what”.  lol

They are therefore likely precluded from voluntarily offering ANYTHING not specifically requested or required by law that could conceivably reflect poorly on past county activities.  I have found current employees to be very polite, helpful and tolerant of my “snooping around” while trying to discover the answers to questions like:

What precipitated this very peculiar district formation which supported great district expansion through contradictory and illogical property annexations detrimental to the interests of the customers it (the LDPCSD) was ostensibly created to serve?   

How could such annexations be approved without even a simple recognition of the most important operational regulation of that surface water treatment plant:

  WHERE MERCED RIVER WATER COULD LEGALLY BE SERVED? 

Questions now orbit around – What were the actual motives and goals of that 1980 LAFCO that formed the LDPCSD?

Had it quietly been working behind the scene with, or at minimum receptive to, the massive district expansion philosophy of the influential SIERRA HIGHLANDS WATER COMPANY President and minor shareholder, Thaddeus C Binkley?

What about the major influence of Sierra Highland’s “like-thinking” ORIGINAL GENERAL MANAGER EXPANSIONIST, Wes Snyder, who was also the first LDPCSD GM as well?

Minutes clearly document his “do it now, worry later” perspective of outside water service.  Then later, he was also a Deerwood Land Development Corporation employee while also serving on the LDPCSD Board?  Too cozy for a public agency and private for profit land development corporation in my eyes.   Please.  No offense intended.  Wes believed in district water expansion as far as possible and I admired him for his dedication but disapproved of methods used.  OK, done and over, but one must say, Wes got things done, so sincerely, RIP Wes.

Everyone has their own perspective and beliefs as to what is important in life and they presumably conduct themselves and live their lives the best they can in order to achieve those goals.  Kudos.  Hope it works for you.   Naturally there’s that little issue of TIME which (hopefully) incrementally matures our perspective of life with the new information acquired and experience of “reality” behind us.  I thought the other day…..if I were to somehow meet myself “as the teenager I was many moons ago” in my present life now at this age, I’d bet money, marbles or chalk I would have seriously disliked some aspects of the “younger me” and probably attempted to avoid further interaction.  But that harsh judgement would have likely resulted from witnessing one of my many “mistakes” growing up, which again, hopefully, we survive, learn a lesson and move on without punishing ourselves too much!  lol

People can live as they please but that does not equate to my being obliged to approve or condone methods of operation that obviously harm others.  Nor must I accept with a smile and dismiss with a frown, the collateral damage to those less powerful victims of ‘development schemes” for the sake of “development profit”.  OK – other perspectives, our differences make us great, no biggie, let’s move on shall we?

LIKE IT OR NOT

Lake Don Pedro subdivision property owners have been exploited time and time again.  By outsiders, insiders, strangers and neighbors.  And it is so very, very sad because much of it is “the road to hell paved with good intentions”, but then there are some others (I pray the minority) that are more contemplative, intentional and cognizant of the injury caused to others with their activities based in pure greed.  Enough.  I still hold out that there is more good than bad, but the faith gets stretched at times.

Time heals all wounds.

All heels are wounded by time.

GOD-DOG

LIVE-EVIL

Whatever……..

PUPPY  MONKEY  BABY!    PUPPY MONKEY BABY!   PUPPY MONKEY BABY!     ah, much better.

now back to the regularly scheduled blah, blah, blah

MAKE THE FUTURE NOW

SO – did Thad Binkley,  in his “nonlinear style” of planning and execution (saw a book advertised with a story about his process), successfully begin LDPCSD SERVICE AREA EXPANSION in 1968, (Sturtevant meter deal- despite the established legal service area) long before the district was even FORMED in August of 1980 by LAFCO?

Take a look at the chronological time line.  Heck,didn’t he successfully expand the service area BEFORE the district had even LEGALLY RECEIVED THE TRANSFER OF FACILITIES AND ASSETS on February 21, 1981?  (Transfer was effective 30 days after the January 21 1981 CPUC approval of the transfer to the LDPCSD.)

And please remember, that CPUC transfer was going to clearly document the SERVICE AREA and EXISTING CUSTOMER ACCOUNTS to be transferred and assumed by the new LDPCSD as well – in FEBRUARY OF 1981 -…… but…wait……. the LAFCO map was created in 1980 to initially establish the new district boundaries….but how could that….?……WHAT?  Seems backwards.  Shouldn’t one start with what facilities and assets were actually approved by the CPUC first? (Rather than determining the approval was unsatisfactory before the transfer was made legal by the CPUC’s approval?  Shouldn’t any modifications to a carefully detailed service area be made AFTER THE PROPERTY WAS LEGALLY TRANSFERRED TO THE LDPCSD?  Can you imagine being permitted to make engine or body modifications on a vehicle for sale on a new car lot BEFORE YOU HAD ACQUIRED TITLE to that vehicle?  THE CART WAS BEFORE THE HORSE!)

IMAGINE…. A  scheme to have LAFCO modify the service area of a district still yet to be created by that very LAFCO, and before the California Public Utilities Commission January 21st, 1981 approval for the transfer of facilities to that district?  An approval document which also would have clearly documented the service area and customers to be served?  It also included statements as to what was not being transferred….like the numerous expensive liabilities in agreements Sierra Highlands had proposed with others outside of the service area?   Line extensions…..increased loan amounts…..”sleeping annexations”…..district secrecy and customer deception……

Did LAFCO, with knowledge of what was to be approved by the CPUC anyway, simply “jump the gun” and expand the service area before receiving that transfer approval?

(Utilizing the Thad Binkley 10 meter agreement that sitting Director Ross in 1993 and several other outside MIDPOU property owners had earlier, and wrongfully, used to establish district water service outside the place of use.  Obviously such things can only happen in a pro-expansion office with like leadership and management.)

WAS DISTRICT “PREFORMED FOR EXPANSION” BY SPECIAL INTERESTS WORKING WITH LAFCO?

What about comparing the “due diligence” efforts between the

CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION and LAFCO?

(Sound familiar?  HOW “EXISTING CUSTOMER” somehow gets re-configured to include an untold number of “non entitled” others who represent a clear detriment to those legally entitled?  Get it?  Just like with KAMPA and his grant funds supposedly for existing customers in emergency drought but actually used to create his GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION for properties outside the service district area.  Yup, going to serve outside the “SERVICE DISTRICT AREA” BEFORE IT WAS EVEN A SERVICE DISTRICT!   What cunning plans of using the unaware subdivision owner-victim to unwittingly subsidize activities against their own best interests as MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMERS)

Wild huh?  The apparent founder of BINKLEY ASSOCIATES (the LDPCSD’s initial and continuing engineering firm for the last 40 years) was expanding the service area 12 years ahead of district formation, and 13 years ahead of the approved transfer by the California Public Utilities Commission!  Now that’s diabolical nonlinear “out of the box” future planning!

(Whether ethical or not to the MR WECs of the subdivision is another question.)

NICE MAP BUT

NOPE.  SORRY.  CANNOT ACCEPT THIS AS THE AUTHENTIC 1980 MAP CREATED FROM A DETAILED SURVEY – EVEN WITH MY RUDIMENTARY DRAFTING KNOWLEDGE & WANNA BE “BOY SCOUT TRUST”  CAN’T DO IT.

WAS PETE KAMPA RETURNED AS GM/BOARD TREASURER TO “WAKE UP” HIS 20 YEAR OLD “SLUMBERING SPECIAL INTEREST ANNEXATIONS” with a PUBLIC FUNDED GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM?

(Paid for by

MR WECs   <link>

of the LAKE DON PEDRO SUBDIVISION!) 

(Photos taken during February 2017 monthly meeting)

Remember my 9 item Agenda Request?  Requests that were given only lip service in the GM’s report (so Kampa could later use that agenda placement to argue against a full discussion at the monthly meeting?) yet Kampa/Johnson intentionally omitted the map I had prepared AND ATTACHED to support item #2 about a possible new raw water line from the lake to the treatment plant?

LDPCSD BOARD PRESIDENT DANNY JOHNSON  

(Discussed finding “someone” to write grants to fund

groundwater wells for outside MIDPOU properties

shortly before Pete Kampa’s return to the

LDPCSD in October 2014) 

Here’s a link to that original post five months ago in February:

My 9 Item Agenda request – but the map was “lost”

    DIRECTOR EMERY ROSS

OUTSIDE MIDPOU COMMERCIAL CATTLE RANCHER WHO ORCHESTRATED PETE KAMPA’S RETURN TO THE LDPCSD BY PROVIDING CONFIDENTIAL BOARD INFORMATION TO KAMPA AND CREATING A “CLOSED RECRUITMENT PROCESS” ASSURING APPOINTMENT WITHOUT EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND CHECK

~~~ MY AGENDA REQUEST FROM FEBRUARY ~~~

THE MAP WAS CERTAINLY NOT “LOST”

Like so many records at the LDPCSD, my map was not lost but intentionally omitted from the material to which it was attached.

How can a GM and his crony Board President pick through a customer’s PAID FOR AND LEGALLY SUBMITTED AGENDA REQUEST and simply remove a specific page that they, for their own nefarious reasons, feel objectionable for public review? 

Is that not wrongful censorship of a legally submitted agenda request to a public agency?

SOS ….same ‘ol…..stuff  (lol)

This is the same technique that has been repeated many, many times by the LDPCSD concerning its annexation records.

Ambiguous annexation paperwork which never identified the property being pushed through.  WHO KNEW WHERE THOSE PROPERTIES TO BE ANNEXED WERE  ACTUALLY LOCATED? 

THE TRADITIONAL “REFER TO ATTACHED EXHIBIT” WAS NEVER ATTACHED to the paperwork for referral but the process continued resulting in “SLUMBERING ANNEXATIONS” where only those personally involved knew the truth. 

A Truth that remained quiet until KAMPA’s return to create the GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM NEEDED FOR THEIR RE-ACTIVATION?

KAMPA TRACK RECORD OF PURSUING 20 YEAR OLD PROJECTS – relevant today?

Which raises a number of other questions, but one of particular interest considering the “slumbering status” of these annexations, is just how RELEVANT are special interest secret annexations made 20 years ago considering the recent CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY DROUGHT and the lessons – supposedly learned?  

WERE SUCH ANNEXATIONS EVEN REASONABLE THEN?

Why are so many of them directly tied to commercial real estate and land development interests rather than the interests of the MR WEC‘s of the subdivision for whom that (FORMER) surface water treatment plant was designed, constructed and clearly intended to serve?

One of the maps Pete Kampa displays on the LDPCSD Board room wall also indicates the ORB HATTON subdivision on the eastern shores of Lake Don Pedro as also proposed to be in the district boundaries.  Who knows? Maybe it was secretly approved somehow also and waiting to be re-activated on the Tuolumne County side of the subdivision area?  (Although from what I recall reading in the newspapers back then, Tuolumne County did not go along with such grandiose plans of a bay area land development corporation operating in this area at the time.  Evidently Tuolumne County “HELD THEIR GROUND” at a few public meetings in Sonora.  Actually encourages a bit of faith and trust that “legitimate government” entities might indeed be concerned and protective about the MR WEC‘s of the subdivision.  Someone sure needs to be involved.

TRACK RECORD (past activities) and CHARACTER COUNT

Kampa is not forthcoming or candid with his “hands on” personal experiences with such annexation matters 20 years ago.  In other words, Kampa has proven he is once again MISREPRESENTING LDPCSD FACTS and TRUTH – JUST AS HE DID 20 YEARS AGO.

SEEMS LIKE THE DOCUMENTED PAST OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR BY AN INDIVIDUAL APPOINTED GM/BOARD TREASURER and GIVEN ACCESS TO OVER $1 MILLION DOLLARS IN PUBLIC FUNDS, WAS INTENTIONALLY OVERLOOKED BY APPOINTING DIRECTORS WHO  FAILED TO REQUIRE A TRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND CHECK.  

Is that not a failure of their  fiduciary duty to the district and the MR WEC‘s of the subdivision?

“FIDUCIARY:  A person or institution who manages money or property for another and who must exercise a standard of care in such management activity imposed by law or contract; e.g. executor of estate; receiver in bankruptcy; trustee.  A trustee, for example, possesses a fiduciary responsibility to the beneficiaries of the trust to follow the terms of the trust and the requirements of applicable state law.  A breach of fiduciary responsibility would make the trustee liable to the beneficiaries for any damage caused by such breach.” 

Black’s Law Dictionary Fifth Edition  (old edition but the principle remains essentially the same)

RELEVANCY OF ANNEXATIONS DECADES OLD? 

Do land development proposals initiated that long ago still carry the same weight in reasonableness or feasibility after 20 years of restful slumber?  Their inactivity only waiting for the surreptitious return of their “water empire creator” to re-activate the project with GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FUNDED BY THE PUBLIC but serving the private personal and business interests of a former employee who was “unethically returned” and appointed GM/BOARD TREASURER? (Along with his limited liability management company)

YUP.  Something certainly appears wrong here and several “DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES/OFFICIALS” are involved.

COMMON SENSE APPROACH?

Where is the common sense approach to such planned developments?

What happened to that logical “ZERO SPHERE OF INFLUENCE” PROPOSAL BY THE MARIPOSA COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT IN 1985″? 

That was the only proposal to ever make sense considering the MERCED RIVER WATER restrictions contained in WL11395 but land development expansionists went crazy with even further demands for  our precious natural resource.  The MR WEC‘s of the subdivision had their most valuable resource exploited by the very individuals and government entities entrusted to protect and wisely use such a blessing.

PROBABLY MUCH DEEPER THAN JUST COUNTY AND LDPCSD

Also consider the possibility that the MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT is also working with the COUNTY OF MARIPOSA and PETE KAMPA of the LDPCSD to create some other “SWEETHEART DEAL” outside the public view?

Is this legal? Where does the Brown Act become relevant IF SUCH NEGOTIATIONS ARE TAKING PLACE?

I really do not know.  Getting to the point not much is surprising in this obvious game of customer deceit and deception.

BACK TO THE “REMOVED” MAP IN AGENDA REQUEST

Why would a narrative describing that area be permitted and not the accompanying map?  Same subject, same area, and same players.   Was it because a map is graphical, easier to understand negating the requirement of having to read?  You know, being easier to mentally digest a map and recognize an area rather than reading paragraphs of words and sentences providing no clue as to location?  

Was the map intentionally removed due to the possibility of someone else viewing our agenda packet and realizing that was the same property KAMPA worked with 20 years ago? Or is currently involved in some other greater secret being kept from the MR WEC‘s of the subdivision?

Or was it just another piece of the puzzle that KAMPA/ROSS/JOHNSON could not permit to be picked up and placed in the slowly materializing puzzle image showcasing decades of special district corruption to the detriment of the MR WEC‘s of the subdivision?

I don’t know but believe a good argument could be made for that possibility. 

Anyway- here’s the map KAMPA & JOHNSON REFUSED TO PUT IN THE AGENDA PACKET for public viewing:

WHAT A CO-INCIDENCE – LAKE SHORE RANCH – A PETE KAMPA          “SLUMBERING ANNEXATION” FROM 1995! 

My best to you and yours, Lew

PS  Repetitive after thoughts….

     VP DAN HANKEMEIER               DIRECTOR RUSS WARREN             DIRECTOR JIM SULT

How much did the three directors, not initially involved in KAMPA’s return to Lake Don Pedro in Oct 2014, know about these past annexations and Pete Kampa’s apparent continuing relationship with developers?

Did Kampa explain to ALL BOARD MEMBERS his past activities regarding expanding district service further beyond the MIDPOU of the water license?

IF SO, why wasn’t this revealed to the public when questions regarding issues of outside MIDPOU and annexations were specifically discussed during LDPCSD meetings?

IF NOT, is this the reason ROSS and JOHNSON made sure there would be no background check on KAMPA and his past employment with the LDPCSD?

Did Kampa advise ALL DIRECTORS of his past “working relationship” with Director Emery Ross 20 years earlier in expanding such service?

Was KAMPA  involved in the mysterious “private outside MIDPOU water line” traversing the cattle ranch of Director Ross which starts on Granite Springs Road and serves at least two other outside MIDPOU ranches further south on HWY 132?

Why is there no LDPCSD Utility Easement on that water line as proposed shortly after KAMPA’s resignation in 1997?

Is it ethical leadership and/or management for a public agency to intentionally conceal such information from the MR WEC‘s of the subdivision?

Why would Kampa OBVIOUSLY ENCOURAGE MISINFORMATION AND CONFUSION TO FLOURISH when he could have quite easily “set the record straight” with his personal knowledge of events?

What benefit to the district and its legal customers is achieved through consistent omission of relevant fact and truth by the Board of Directors and their appointed general manager and board treasurer?

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?

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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

Still having difficulty with this.  Sorry, I realize repetitive.  Stuck in a loop of why, why, why?    OK, money obviously.  But why would the county LAFCos go along with such a special interest water development policy in view of the intended purpose of the LDPCSD?

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You know, in all the training classes I ever participated in while on the board that were presented by organizations such as the one KAMPA is apparently connected at the hip to,[i]  I have never heard it suggested that district officials intentionally misrepresent truth or practice omission of pertinent fact, as acceptable techniques for controlling legitimate customer concerns or protests of poor management.

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Why were the Meeting Minutes between September 2 1980 to July 2 1981 “condensed”?

Probably because detailed notes would not have reflected well on a Board that immediately began expanding district service and violating the approved service area for Merced River Water after just assuming control of the facility.  But remember, our first GM was the previous GM of a private water company that was suddenly transformed into a public agency by LAFCo due to a positive vote of 88 people to form the LDPCSD.   That first GM believed the LDPCSD should serve water any where it was feasibly possible and the legally permissible issue was simply ignored.    

Those who read the CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (CPUC) approval for the transfer of facilities and assets from Sierra Highlands Water Company to the newly formed LDPCSD, were very much aware of the service area established.  The approval was quite explicit as to what was, and what was not, approved regarding water service.

THEN WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED AFTER CPUC APPROVAL?

JUN 15 1978 MAP SHOWS SIERRA HIGHLANDS WATER COMPANY BOUNDARIES

Why does the Lake Don Pedro CSD consistently refuse to post a legitimate map displaying where Merced River Water (pumped under Merced Irrigation District water license 11395) can legally be used in this area? Properties outside the 11395 Place of Use MUST use ground water. Why should 99% of legal Merced River water users in the subdivision (for whom the water plant was constructed) pay for this ground water special benefit for land developers outside the subdivision?

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

WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL “REAL PLAN” FOR THE LDPCSD?

Was water service provided by the LDPCSD to properties that the State Water Board, CPUC  and County Lafcos never intended?

Or.

Was water service provided by the LDPCSD to properties that the State Water Board and CPUC never intended but the County LAFCo’s most certainly did?

IF the former is true, why did the County LAFCos approve so many annexations that were CLEARLY OUTSIDE THE SERVICE AREA ESTABLISHED BY THE STATE WATER BOARD AND THE CPUC during formation and immediately afterward?

IF the later statement is true the question becomes,  Do COUNTY LOCAL AGENCY FORMATION COMMISSION annexations necessarily over-rule decisions of higher State Departments and Commissions?

EVEN THE LDPCSD ATTORNEY

ADVISED IN JUNE OF 1981

NO SERVICE OUTSIDE AREA!

SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG

at the

Lake Don Pedro Community Services District

Like the unpleasant odor of decomposition one picks up on a breeze yet cannot grasp in hand to determine cause, this journey too is primarily sniffing facts and following the unmistakable and obnoxious scent of public agency deceit and betrayal.

Whether a corpse littered field, or unethical activities by public officials pursuing personal/business goals, both should be properly disposed of by the appropriate authorities and as soon as possible.

I can’t shake this Outside MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE (MIDPOU) LAKE SHORE RANCH property annexation  in 1995 during PETE KAMPA’s start of an infamous water career.

DID KAMPA CREATE A

MASSIVE ARTIFICIAL GROUNDWATER DEMAND ON PAPER

through many outside MIDPOU ANNEXATIONS

then returned 20 years later to

COMPLETE THAT PLAN BY PROVIDING

GROUNDWATER WELLS DEVELOPED WITH PUBLIC FUNDS

for the purpose of creating an 

“ALTERNATE SOURCE”

necessary for

GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION

for his

PAST APPROVED yet “quietly slumbering annexations”?

?

“…..so let me introduce to you, the one and only….”

“MR WEC”

(MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMER(S) !)

(lol – Thinking Billy Shears huh?)

MR WECs DO NOT APPRECIATE SUBSIDIZING SPECULATIVE LAND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS – lol

Then “out of the blue” after the LDPCSD had just reached the $1Millon dollar savings mark after a successful proposition 218 to raise capital to avoid bankruptcy; false information to a grand jury investigator resulting in a director resignation; aggressive land development activities for more service outside the MIDPOU and cheaper water rates; destruction of our Administration Office by arson; then suddenly in May of 2016 (only 5 months prior to Kampa’s return) new LAFCo service area maps for the LDPCSD, which greatly expanded the service area, are placed in LAFCo records with LDPCSD’s blessing.  (you couldn’t make this stuff up!)

KAMPA RETURN (yes again!  it’s important-shows prior knowledge of regulations and former relationship w/director)

A PETE KAMPA return is orchestrated by Directors Emery Ross and Danny Johnson through a highly unethical closed recruitment process to guarantee KAMPA the positions of General Manager and Board Secretary.

As you may recall, PETE KAMPA, having previously worked with EMERY ROSS in the mid 1990s [when ROSS had been denied district water service multiple times but somehow obtained another individual’s meter and service], was well aware of the restrictions on MERCED RIVER WATER per water license 11395 held by the Merced Irrigation District.  KAMPA was well informed as to the ABSOLUTE NECESSITY FOR A GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM to furnish properties such as the ROSS CATTLE RANCH and other proposed and approved annexations KAMPA had worked with in the 1990s.

KAMPA was quickly provided access to the district’s $1 Million in cash to leverage government grants to construct multiple groundwater wells ostensibly for the benefit of existing customers faced with potential loss of all lake water due to drought.  However, in actuality, KAMPA and others had all along intended to create the necessary “ALTERNATE SOURCE” of water with which to replace every unit of MERCED RIVER WATER intended to be diverted to land developers outside the permitted PLACE OF USE of WL11395.

“PRO-EXPANSION discussions PRIOR TO KAMPA’s RETURN to the LDPCSD, involved finding someone who could write grants to construct groundwater wells for the outside MIDPOU property developers.  (Surely just public prep-work disinformation before announcing the likely very long awaited plan of “re-activating slumbering annexations” with KAMPA’s return.)  I clearly voiced my opposition to that plan when ending my four year term on the board.   I was told such groundwater would not be used for outside MIDPOU use but only for emergency drought purposes.  They lied – otherwise, why such things as the two attempts to abolish 2013-4 which prohibited increasing such service?  Why the necessity of secrecy of LAKE SHORE RANCH?  The steadfast refusal to post accurate maps depicting the actual service boundary and where MERCED RIVER WATER could be served under WL11395?  Why the refusal to post the State Water Board official map of the district?  All this and much more to keep KAMPA & KOMPANY’s plan quiet and out of the public eye?

What CSD purpose is served with such apparent conspiratorial effort to conceal district activities, both past and present, regarding outside MIDPOU service?

What purpose is served to the benefit of MR WEC through continued deception of fact and omission of the truth, regarding a 1995 outside Merced Irrigation District Place of Use (MIDPOU) annexation of 900 acres for a proposed subdivision adjacent to MR WEC’s subdivision?

Even more importantly, was it appropriate for the LAFCo to apparently co-operate and assist the LDPCSD in preventing potential local protest of such annexations (lack of LDPCSD community notice, hearing & election), which again, by virtue of their outside MIDPOU status, would certainly cause an increase in operation costs to the detriment of MR WEC’s subdivision under the water license? 

What purpose is served, other than to continue the years of disinformation and deceit to conceal pertinent facts from the public, for KAMPA to REPEATEDLY FAIL TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON APPROVED ANNEXATIONS and LEGAL POU ISSUES UNDER 11395 with which he was PERSONALLY INVOLVED AS AN EMPLOYEE 20 years earlier? 

Is that not a form of lying to the the very customers the LDPCSD receives payment and is supposed to serve?

Heck, when the board has a Closed Session (permitted in accordance with the Open Meeting/Brown Act for certain actions), even the “report out” provides a general description of the meeting so the public can appreciate and understand the necessity for such confidential discussions. 

“Nawwww…..this is different – now don’t ya see?” 

as Gunsmoke Festus would say.  lol

WHY PETER KAMPA? 

Not only because he was previously and personally involved with the peculiar approvals of many of these 20 year old annexations and proposed developments, but more importantly, he had made and developed many very influential contacts within the state water system industry.  Heck, KAMPA taught classes to politicians, operators, GMs, Special District directors,…etc.

Kampa was once again preparing to saddle the innocent MR WECs of the subdivision with even higher unnecessary costs which also will also increase in cycles for perpetuity – just to continue funding and operating his special interest GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM to circumvent WL11395 restrictions for his developer acquaintances known 20 years earlier.   MR WECs of the subdivision did not care for this plan, back then or now as it does not make sense when considering all the facts for this area.  There were also droughts before 1995.  Certainly not as bad as the last one which should always remain relevant to this discussion of service expansion using groundwater wells.

AVAILABILITY FEES PAID ON PROPERTY TAXES

This is another good example of how the extremely powerful influences of land development and real estate have controlled this area for decades – and that’s the real “best kept secret” around here.  Consider.   A MR WEC of the subdivision is either 1) a resident water consumer who pays a monthly charge of $53 plus the amount of water consumed and these charges have obviously gone up since formation, or  2) An Absentee owner who pays an “availability fee on their property taxes, which is $60/ac, with a maximum of $180 a year (including fractional divisions thereof).

WHY MAXIMUM OF 3 acres?

How many properties does MR WEC in the subdivision own that are over 3 acres? (Very few)

So why should a property of three acres pay the same yearly availability fee as one with several hundred acres?  But wait!  Where are the “open several hundred acres” of unimproved properties in the approved MIDPOU for the subdivision?  There aren’t any.  Kassabalm Flats  perhaps on Ranchito Dirve has open land, but not that much.

Ah oh….side note.    What about our NATURAL PARKS that are obviously within the subdivision?  Was that a spin off goal plan back then when Orb Hatton and Dwight Mueller suggested the LDPOA sell our open park land to developers for cash?  Sell our parks to developers who could then pull strings for re-zoning,  subdivide the park and claim a right to a meter on every “condo sized lot” over-looking “Dead Possum Gulch” because they are in the subdivision and therefore the MIDPOU and thus entitled to Merced River Water like original MR WEC?   Who knows?  Such “players” seem to be able to do a lot of things most of us understand is against the law and unethical.

ANYWAY, why has this $60/ac Max $180/yr NEVER BEEN CHANGED IN OVER TWENTY YEARS WHILE LEAVING ESCALATING COSTS TO BE PAID FOR BY THE RESIDENT WATER CONSUMERS?  Because we are trapped – unless you care to sell at a loss to the very people that are causing this water problem.  Absolutely wild!

Yup, the same interests that are pushing for MORE OUTSIDE MIDPOU WATER SERVICE (that must be replaced with expensive groundwater – with the added bonus of arsenic removal costs) scream and cry it’s not fair to raise their costs on property not receiving water yet – heck it will be more difficult to sell it multiple times!

FRIGG’N UNBELIEVABLE!

Poor old MR WEC – catching it from both sides of THIS FINANCIAL EQUATION by the SO GOSIP [rem?  SAME OLD GROUP OF SPECIAL INTEREST PEOPLE]

The SO GOSIP increase the costs dramatically for the legal MR WECs ; reap the profits by increasing a property’s value with good water; adamantly resist any attempt at having to pay a “Fair share” in availability fees on speculative land; but all the while continually pushing for more extremely expensive GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION paid for by the MR WECs of the subdivision to expand into vast areas within which they have an interest.  Greed my friends, greed.   Same as always  …

THEY DIDN’T WANT OUR SUBDIVISION LAND WITH WATER

THEY WANTED OUR SUBDIVISION WATER ON THEIR LAND.

KAMPA HAS HI-JACKED A SURFACE WATER TREATMENT PLANT INTENDED FOR MR WECs of the subdivision.

That’s why residents pay $53 a month before using a drop of water – on top of the water consumption charge!

Yes I did just see John Wick again.  (Keanu Reeves) One of the most action-packed – violent movies I’ve seen on television for a while.  (Some of the SCI FI stuff is pretty gruesome)  Anyway, I was almost exhausted just watching it!  lol   Now I am certainly not advocating ANY FORM OF VIOLENCE, but rather, just the opposite

and using only five letters from the word VIOLENCE,

use your

VOICE!

Speak up as a MR WEC (MERCED RIVER WATER ENTITLED CUSTOMER) and demand protection of this subdivision’s most precious natural resource  – quality Merced River Water straight from Yosemite National Park!

You might as well, because as sure as the smell on a decomposing puppy, PETE KAMPA won’t. 

..must get away from this!

My best to you and yours, Lew

oh yeah….just have to type it!  .….PUPPY MONKEY BABY    PUPPY MONKEY BABY    PUPPY MONKEY BABY   lol!

First time I saw that on TV thought I had suffered some quiet brain annexation of my own!  lol  later

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)

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“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?)

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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.”

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“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”

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

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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

[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!”

________________________________________

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.”

__________________________

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

Consider this:

On September 4th, 1996 Kampa wrote the following to Tuolumne County Planning…

               “The “Zone of Influence,” in which LDPCSD may serve water, extends outside Merced Irrigation District’s “Place of Use” boundaries; thus groundwater wells have been drilled to supplement the surface water supply and serve our customers outside the aforementioned boundaries.  The District currently operates one groundwater well which produces up to 160 acre feet per year, and is actively considering additional water sources.”

NOW compare to the September 18th, 1996 Board of Director’s instructed “apology letter for misrepresenting” the facts where Kampa wrote:

“At this time, and in the foreseeable future, LDPCSD’s only public service is the provision of water to residents of the subdivision.  There have been no formal requests made by the public to the LDPCSD Board of Directors in regards to additional public services; nor has research been performed on the feasibility of this issue.”

See?  Kampa knows what is proper and correct.  He just doesn’t follow the rules.

Notice also Kampa did not clarify that the 19 groundwater wells developed by Boise Cascade many years earlier (and not the LDPCSD) were all abandoned because of poor water quality (probably due to the arsenic like we have now) and inadequate production.  Gosh, doesn’t that seem a bit deceitful?  How many wells were actually drilled by the LDPCSD?  One, and that water production was required to replace all the illegal connections using MERCED RIVER WATER in violation of the water license!  (For situations like that sitting director using chlorinated water intended for domestic residential consumption in the subdivision to start and run a commercial cattle ranch for over two decades.  Certainly not an authorized purpose under water license 11395.)

However, 17 years later in October of 2014 [when PETE KAMPA was returned to the LDPCSD by those SPECIAL INTEREST directors seeking further expansion] the LDPCSD still only had one groundwater well, Ranchito Drive #1.

Gee, sure seems the only entity “actively considering additional water sources” was Pete Kampa.

And now?  Same Pete Kampa with a few other special interest land developer supporting directors.  Everything else is “behind the scene” representation that you and I will never be privy to –  that’s why Kampa just can’t tell the whole truth.

Also remember that Ranchito Drive #1 operated since 1993 until it failed during KAMPA’s drilling for more water to sell outside the Place of Use, and to this day after tens of thousands of dollars spent on refurbishing, Ranchito Drive #1 is still inoperable supposedly waiting for a water meter.   Sure hope at least the water meter will tell the truth about the water passing through.  This is the same well site Director Jim Sult mentioned was obviously not secure with the fence down.

So, ANYWAY,  what did Kampa do after his “unethical GM appointment” in October 2014?  Immediately start to AGAIN MISREPRESENT the LDPCSD actual water source situation to State and Federal authorities in order to obtain millions in public grants INTENDED FOR EXISTING CUSTOMER BENEFIT and misappropriate those funds for the true purpose of creating his “alternate source of water” with which to fuel his GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM (referenced 17 years earlier when starting his infamous water career) so water could flow to his developer acquaintances from 20 years earlier. 

IF NOTHING ELSE REMEMBER:

KAMPA (and his director supporters) INTENDED TO SELL THAT EMERGENCY DROUGHT WATER (developed with public funds) TO PRIVATE OWNERS OF PROPERTY OUR DISTRICT HAS NO LEGAL DUTY TO PROVIDE WATER DURING THE WORST DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY!

Oh yes, our “Remote GM” certainly cares about the customers our former surface water treatment plant was designed and intended to serve.

You can check out the rest of that KAMPA expansion advocacy letter by selecting the following link:

EXPANSION PLANS?

Read it?  Interesting huh?  Just think, KAMPA’s plan called for the LDPCSD to also take the subdivision’s natural parks.  Wow.   Doesn’t that ring a bell?  When Orb Hatton and Dwight Mueller (acting LDPOA officers) suggested selling those large tracts of open and natural unimproved property to developers for cash?  To heck with the future subdivision and its residents!  Who needs open natural areas in the future?  What a waste of prime real estate for development.  Right? (Such short sighted selfish thinking is not lol at all.)

See and appreciate the common threads of greed and exploitation?

Now remember folks, things like the above do not operate in a vacuum all by themselves, but rather in conjunction with other active exploiters – recall what was to soon follow with the DEERWOOD LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION in our subdivision as well?  The many speculative and model homes being constructed in violation of the CC&Rs?

What about a Deerwood Corporation employee (former SIERRA HIGHLANDS WATER COMPANY GM and 1st LDPCSD GM) serving on the LDPCSD Board of Directors at the same time. (A GM/Director who had always strenuously advocated water service beyond the MID Place of Use under WL11395 and did in fact furnish such service – with and without approval from the board of directors.)

What about the golf course refusing to pay that enormous overdue water bill?   An entire LDPOA Board of hard working and sincere directors removed because a land development corporation president did not care for the truth being told about his corporation’s activities in Lake Don Pedro?   The “Cartoon Recall”, remember?  (I sure do!  – lol)

What about a a day’s work by an LDPCSD water crew repairing a water line which was technically the responsibility of the golf course yet it only paid for the $25 repair band?  Who do you think paid for that day’s work, and many, many others?

What about all those developer convenience roads constructed in violation of 12 year old enacted public safety fire codes designed to protect lives and property?  Constructed just to avoid the expense of legal fire safe single/dual driveways?  All just to increase profit margins!    Who gets left with those dangerous roads which will undoubtedly eventually cause serious injury or death when actually used by the public someday?  (When everyone who really knows how they were constructed are long gone.)    Who will pay for that?

Look how the state handled that matter – INSTEAD of having CAL FIRE enforce regulations and demand correction by making the developer conform to law (which they had the power to do under the Resources Code) everyone living in an SRA (State Responsibility Area) now has to pay a yearly FIRE FEE – yet those dangerous substandard roads still exist.

Remember all that erosion on Alamo Drive that destroyed part of a County maintained road and completely plugged a public easement drainage ditch?  Yet ALL RECORDS OF THAT TAX PAYER CLEAN UP AND ROAD REPAIR WERE UNAVAILABLE?   Who paid for that?  And who pays for that continuing erosion because a hillside’s natural runoff being redirected without proper engineering and county/state permitting approvals?  Who orchestrated that and who ultimately pays for the resulting damages?

What about years later when that same land development corporation president attended a LDPCSD meeting and actually advocated customers not pay their property taxes in protest to force the County of Mariposa to fold and permit the “Deerwood Plan” for Lake Don Pedro?  Good grief! Who encourages another to do something that will inevitably harm them?  Someone who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the ultimate victim – that’s who.

You know, I don’t have the time or patience now to reiterate all the horrible things that have gone on and are going on in this area right now – besides it makes my heart uncomfortable.  Suffice it to say ALL OF THIS BEHIND THE SCENE GARBAGE (just like now) has been, and is, actively working against the best interests of regular property owners in this subdivision who are building homes  in these beautiful though rugged foothills.

Please realize our MOST IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY VALUABLE RESOURCE (quality water from Lake McClure – good heavens – IT FLOWS FROM YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK folks!) has been under attack by land developers and real estate speculators ever since we became a public agency!

Now don’t you feel special?

My best to you and yours, Lew