2nd MID FOIA Request walkin 022320161018
GIVE ME A BREAK! I WAS WRITING IN MY PICKUP OUTSIDE IN THE PARKING LOT! YOU CAN READ IT THOUGH RIGHT? lol
FOUND THIS ON THE INTERNET :
Product & Tracking Information
Postal Product:
Features:
- Certified Mail™
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Date & Time
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Location
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| February 12, 2016 , 4:05 pm |
Departed USPS Origin Facility |
WEST SACRAMENTO, CA 95799 | ||||
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| February 11, 2016 , 10:08 pm |
Arrived at USPS Origin Facility |
WEST SACRAMENTO, CA 95799 | ||||
| February 11, 2016 , 4:06 pm |
Departed Post Office |
LA GRANGE, CA 95329 | ||||
| February 11, 2016 , 1:39 pm |
Acceptance |
LA GRANGE, CA 95329 | ||||
Traced my Certified Mail Receipt number and thought it had been “lost” somewhere in West Sacramento the day after mailing in La Grange. Humm, strange. Get home and run another tracking check and see that it supposedly left West Sacramento. Gee, wonder where it got lost? Perhaps I should not have posted the receipt with the numbers legible? Who knows what computers can do? Anyway, had a copy of my original (like was previously posted) so I added a few things and hand delivered it to the Merced Irrigation District office in Merced this morning. (That’s my note of “1018 hrs” to the right of the red MID stamp.)
EMAIL?
SNAIL MAIL?
CERTIFIED MAIL?
SMOKE SIGNALS?
I now wonder whether an email FOIA (Freedom Of Information Request) might have been better? Naw, I like being able to see the mail tracking results in black ink. Emails get lost, wrong office mailbox, address, etc. Snail mail takes too long and can also get lost. Much better to send a “time sensitive FOIA request” by USPS Certified Mail for almost $7.00 and then have it mysteriously disappear after being scanned in a West Sacramento post office! LOL Wonder where the next stop was?
“COINCIDENCE, The occurrence of events that happen at the same time by accident but seem to have some connection”. Online Webster Dictionary
OK, sure, let’s not delve into any “conspiracy theory” quite yet. Conspiracy Theory?,….wasn’t that an excellent movie with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts?
Speaking of conspiracy, I have many thoughts regarding what appears to be moving behind the scenes with some public agencies and their departments. Using public funds to expand LDPCSD water service further beyond the Place of Use restrictions in L11395 and the monthly MID POU compliance report, may only be the tip of the iceberg.
One thought that is particularly troubling is the fact every single LDPCSD director who has ever served with integrity regarding this extremely tumultuous community issue and voted to deny water service to outside Place of Use properties because of legal restrictions, has been done a disservice. Who wants to be the “parent” or the “bad guy/gal” who must say “sorry the District cannot provide water there based on restrictions in the water license; agreement with the Merced Irrigation District; and my sworn Oath of Office which dictates a fiduciary duty to this District.”
(Can you still hear the jeering laughter ridicule?)
Or does one make a spontaneous pressured decision based on a very small number of people who scream, holler and make nasty remarks in a choreographed presentation of child-like protest demanding what they want?
Too often, some (directors) have fallen to this later environment.
SURE, I’M A DINOSAUR
Guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. Yes indeed, I am a dinosaur with an (apparently) outdated sense of “right and wrong” and confused about what is meant by the “transparency of government process”. Maybe a background as a military dependent and moving from place to place for most of my formative years assisted in creating a perspective a bit more conservative than others, like with respect to national defense and public service integrity?
WATER RELATED “MILITARY BRAT” MEMORY
I will never forget coming back to the United States in the early seventies following two years in Asia and once again appreciating something I had almost forgotten, drinking water from a common garden hose. I was standing on my Aunt and Uncle’s beautiful green front lawn in Sacramento in the shade of old growth trees, drinking cool clean water from a typical green garden hose. Far cry from hauling potable water home in plastic jugs from the “Compound’s Water Tank” to avoid getting sick from the tap water. Yup. Something we often take for granted. We’d probably be a stronger country as a people if every citizen had to haul their own water for a while.
My best to you and yours, Lew
March 10th 2016: Further information regarding this information request will be located under main menu heading: FOILED F.O.I.A.
