Perhaps viewers should hear my {inappropriate?} audio/video “blah blah blah” first?

Your choice.

Once again at first blush I believe embarrassment might be appropriate but when I consider the conspiratorial nature of this continuing deception I think, “nahhhh – I’m right on target and these individuals are quite dishonest.”

Did pretty well there for a while but during this last meeting I once again – and to my almost embarrassment – became rather…..what was that descriptive yet forgiving term?  Oh yeah, “passionate”.

OK, I’m passionate about what is happening to our Community Services District.  Yes, I admit to being disgusted and angry with the continuing “parsing of words” by Board President Johnson and GM Kampa. Yes indeed, their carefully selected words and flowing speeches are designed to misdirect public attention while concealing their multi-year duplicitous scheme of re-configuring our surface water treatment plant into a GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FACILITY for third party private land development interests – interests, clearly prohibited from receiving MERCED RIVER WATER under the water license.

RETURNED TO FINISH “WATER EMPIRE”

Kampa started his infamous water career in Lake Don Pedro in 1993 by advocating and participating in the expansion of special benefit water service OUTSIDE THE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT Place of Use, and was returned 20 years later in 2014 by those same special interests, he quietly resumed that endeavor under the guise of an emergency drought.  Kampa utilized grant funds (specifically intended to assist existing customers during extreme drought) which were NOT TO BE USED TO INCREASE SERVICE CONNECTIONS, to create an “alternate source of water” (groundwater) so as to increase the GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION PROGRAM for even more outside POU water service.

OUTSIDER ASSISTED BY LOCALS

Kampa doesn’t live here.  He and his company are only exploiting the greatest resource the subdivision possesses – quality water from Lake McClure.  Please also realize none of this could have been done without the treacherous and coordinated assistance of particular local neighbors who falsely claimed a desire to serve the district and its customers.  These despicable individuals have been working behind the scene for years to assist Pete Kampa in building his “water empire” for land developers not entitled to MERCED RIVER WATER  – and guess who they believe should pay for this deception?

I am not a public speaker and will avoid it when possible (I hate the sound of my own recorded voice – especially when elevated with “passion”), but having to sit there and listen to so much calculated word parsing deceit, repeated over and over and over by Kampa and Johnson, – well, it just kind of builds up and eventually manifests itself in pressured – frustrated speech.  So what?  I’d rather be known as a “big-mouth” than an absolute liar and traitor to my community.

GOOD EXAMPLE

Remember a while back when I mentioned how most of us live day to day, week to week, month to month, etc., whereas those in land development and real estate think more in terms of decades and beyond? While we are engaged in “How are the bills going to get paid this month?” these land development interests are busy creating intricate and devious plans on how to circumvent, bend, or even completely violate regulations without “getting caught” so as to meet their project demands.    Yup, they are focused on long term end game goals while we “common folk” are busy just trying to survive the best we can with existing conditions.

IMPARTIAL MAP?

This “impartial” map issue is a good example of how these unscrupulous people can incrementally build their program of “major change” without the constraints of having to publicly announce the particular goal much less conform to legal prerequisites and/or existing procedures which, not surprisingly, often prohibit what these “cheaters” are attempting anyway…..thus the whole reason for being the low-life cheats they are.

Such surreptitious change requires not only the co-operation (both intentional and unintentional) of other individuals in various capacities, but works best when the necessary components of the “major change” remain dormant without drawing public attention until required for implementation.   This insures that by the time the public realizes what has happened an otherwise extremely difficult or impossible goal has already been quietly achieved and put into action.  PRESTO!  Land developers get what they want, we get stuck with the bills, and the cheaters can laugh and pat each other on the back for successfully betraying their community and getting the once impossible done.

Eventually, those harmed will finally understand what has been quietly accomplished in the background and will inevitably say things like,  “how could this have happened?”,   “Are there not laws protecting us from such activity?”, “How can they get away with such wrongful behavior?”, “They lied to us!”, etc.    But guess what?  It is likely a done deal by that time.

This is why I am so passionate.

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Do you recall that LAFCo meeting I was prohibited from attending back in 2014 while still on the Board of Directors?  Here’s some of the paperwork resulting from that extremely peculiar process which resulted in different LDPCSD Service Area and SOI (Sphere of Influence) maps with greatly expanded boundaries being placed in LAFCo records  (technically their Policy and Procedures Manual).

BASIC QUESTIONS:

Since only a LAFCo can legally change existing boundaries of the LDPCSD’s Service Area and SOI, why would Mariposa County LAFCo (on more than one occasion) request the LDPCSD to provide LAFCo with LDPCSD’s most up to date service area map?

In other words, how could the LDPCSD change boundaries in the first place without specific LAFCo approvals?

LAFCo SHOULD ALWAYS BE THE FIRST to know of any “boundary change”.

{Doing otherwise smacks of a situation where a law enforcement officer would have to ask a criminal suspect what penal code sections could be enforced against them, or a judge asking a criminal defendant during trial what evidence could be used by the prosecutor, or perhaps where a correctional officer would ask a convicted “in custody” how much time they are supposed to serve before release.

You catch my drift right?

Why would “any authority”(LAFCo) be required to seek approval of their work responsibilities from those subject to that authority? (LDPCSD) 

Confusing, eh?

Can the mere “updating” of a LAFCo Policies and Procedures Manual with incorrect map information actually change the previous legally approved physical boundaries of a Community Services District without the highly formal and detailed public annexation process which I believe also includes an environmental review?

NOTE:  The fact the LDPCSD’s legal counsel was evidently involved (in some capacity) with this 2014 map process is not really all that relevant due to one simple fact:

The LDPCSD does not always provide the attorney with

factual pertinent information regarding district operations.

I discovered this while on the Board of Directors years ago.  While talking with the LDPCSD attorney about this outside MIDPOU issue I questioned why the county would build a new sewage  treatment facility outside the MIDPOU (Where MERCED RIVER WATER COULD NOT BE USED WITHOUT GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION.)  This was during the time I (with support of two other directors of course) was pursuing payment of about $40,000 from the county in outstanding water fees for that facility – go figure……that treatment plant was only being billed for “gallons” rather than “units” of water used for years – paying only a fraction of the actual cost.  Supposedly the “wrong meter” was initially installed.

ANYWAY, the attorney was completely unaware of this fact and asked me to send him information indicating this, which I did.   I was very surprised that our attorney had been specifically denied that information which was just another clue indicating how  “special interests” were manipulating (controlling?) aspects of district operations.

Seems to me our attorney and engineer should always be involved with pertinent facts regarding district operations related to their responsibilities.

 

Here’s some of the paperwork used to “update” LAFCo records back in 2014:

 

 

 

PAST LAFCo ACTIONS?  What actions could change an established service and SOI area?   Such paperwork should be easily obtainable from Mariposa and Tuolumne County LAFCos.

 

 

Obviously, Mariposa County Local Agency Formation Commission did not “hear and consider” all comments regarding proposed updates because I was denied the opportunity to attend that meeting as I had planned!

 

OK, I UNDERSTAND THE JOHNSON/KAMPA “IMPARTIAL MAP” SCHEME, BUT WHAT NOW?

Oh my.  How sneaky and duplicitous  Ross, Johnson and Kampa have been for years – planning on using these “current” LAFCo maps on file for KAMPA’s FRANKENSTEIN SPECIAL INTEREST-BENEFIT MAP.  (Others initially involved with this scheme have since left the community – good riddance traitors!)

I decided it might be worth the two hour 87 mile round trip to Mariposa County Planning to drop off the below request letter to Sarah Williams the County Planning Director and Executive LAFCo Officer since none of this makes sense based on what I have researched regarding the subject.  But there is only one way to find out what is happening and that is to ask, right?

This is incredible.

When PETE KAMPA’s +$10,000 mapping project was first brought to the  board it was made quite clear that “LDPCSD fingerprints were not be on that proposed map” yet that is precisely what those treacherous former and current Board Directors and GMs have planned for three years. 

AGREED THE DISTRICT WOULDN’T BE INVOLVED WITH PROPOSED MAP – BUT IT ALREADY WAS – YEARS AGO!

Once again I am so very disappointed.  Seems a couple of individuals I had previously respected and trusted (to a point) were, unfortunately, far less deserving of my confidence in their “doing the right thing”.

Emery Ross once told me the world had far more evil people in it than good, at the time I disagreed, but now I wonder – was this opinion merely based exclusively on those with whom he has associated regarding this OUTSIDE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE issue?    Whether or not people may be evil is certainly not for me to decide, but based on objective performance of some of these people I sure as hell can unequivocally state they are not being honest with the legal customers of this district and have gone to great lengths to intentionally avoid and conceal the truth.  This continues at every single monthly board meeting.

DOESN’T THAT SUCK?

By the time you realize you have been “had” the damage is done and those responsible simply move on without the slightest bit of accountability for, or acknowledgment of, their wrongful behavior.   True, such dishonest miserable little people are everywhere but that does not negate the fact that positions of public trust should be reserved for those who would honestly discharge their duties – without the obvious favoritism towards private third party land development entities pursuing higher profit margins.

This is another good example of how covert incremental manipulations of “the system” can take place behind the scene.  All done in the attempt to ratify incorrect information in further assistance to GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION for land developers OUTSIDE the PLACE OF USE for MERCED RIVER WATER.

VIEWERS – DOES NOT THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTION MAKE SENSE?

#1   Obtain the original LAFCo Service Area Map created in 1980 during the LDPCSD’s formation, and then

#2   Indicate each specific boundary change APPROVED by LAFCo through their annexation process.

<<<What remains is the official LAFCo approved water service area boundary for the LDPCSD.>>>

REPEAT PROCESS FOR SOI (Sphere of Influence)

#1  Obtain the initial SOI Map approved by LAFCo.

  #2   Indicate each specific SOI boundary change approved by LAFCo.

<<<What remains is the official LAFCo approved Sphere of Influence boundary for the LDPCSD.>>>

CURIOUS….what ever happened to that proposed  (and logical) ZERO SOI for the LDPCSD in the mid 1980s?

With these two LAFCo approved maps established, it will be of little difficulty to ascertain the number of locations and acreages involved where MERCED RIVER WATER has been diverted and served to properties by the LDPCSD that are not only OUTSIDE THE APPROVED LAFCo SERVICE AREA, but also, OUTSIDE THE MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT PLACE OF USE PER WATER LICENSE 11395 [MIDPOU].

Where is the logical place to begin ANY INVESTIGATION?

Yes, at the beginning then run it to conclusion!

My best to you and yours, (a very frustrated) Lew

PS:  Just thought of another example of Pete Kampa’s pathetic attempt  ……..like in a car race where car #3 unequivocally wins the race. (Unaltered video from beginning to end documents this fact.)    Yet Kampa, ignoring the video, is jumping up and down waving a photograph taken during the middle of the race where his car #8 is slightly ahead screaming he is the actual winner and demands his photograph be accepted as the proof!

Silly Kampa,

such tricks are for cheats.