(*Outside Merced Irrigation District Place of Use) PLEASE USE THE CONTROLS AT THE BOTTOM LEFT OF THE AGENDA DOCUMENT TO FLIP THROUGH PAGES. Why is such a “no brainer” request for more subsidized EMERGENCY DROUGHT GROUNDWATER (outside the legal Place of Use under the water license) even on the LDPCSD agenda? Guess there needs to be some kind of listed business on the agenda to Segway into yet another CLOSED SESSION regarding potential district litigation. Like a one trick pony yeah? lol Perhaps this is really more of a test run, a formal practice if you will, for the Board to begin gaining some “authentic board experience” in making legitimate logical decisions focused on the interests and welfare of the thousands of MR WECS …… https://lakedonpedro.org/mr-wec/ within the LDP Subdivision? Yup, thousands of legal subdivision customers this board was supposed to be serving since October 2014 yet failed their responsibilities miserably by simply turning over our Surface Water Treatment Plant to a former rogue employee (without even a basic employment background check) who began immediately re-configuring the plant into a Groundwater Substitution Facility to provide extremely expensive subsidized groundwater to LAFCO ANNEXATIONS Kampa set up twenty years earlier during his first employment with the LDPCSD. (1994-1997) Annexations setup by this rogue employee who was apparently pursuing his own personal and business interests without Board direction or approval. So. Here we are years later with yet another request for special benefit water service from a property owner outside the PLACE OF USE for river water under the water license TO WHICH THIS DISTRICT HAS NO LEGAL DUTY OR MORAL OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE SQUAT! NOTE: This property was part of a former proposed adjacent residential subdivision next to the existing LDP subdivision that started development many years ago without proper approvals. MOST CERTAINLY OMIDPOU! The OMIDPOU report (Outside Merced Irrigation District Place of Use) was a standard report for monthly LDPCSD Board Meetings and listed those properties Outside the approved water license POU (which for Lake Don Pedro is anything outside the LDP residential subdivision and the golf course area), along with how much water was consumed as compared to what was pumped from the lake or one ground well that we had at the time to insure compliance. This report, which was required by the MID for water license compliance purposes (following their own water audit by the State for incorrect environmental releases for wildlife) suddenly stopped with the arrival of Peter Kampa, who happens to be a 20 year CSDA (California Special District Association) Board Director. wow. Look what this PROFESSIONAL CSDA BOARD DIRECTOR DID TO THE LAKE DON PEDRO CSD SINCE HIS FIRST EMPLOYMENT HERE BETWEEN 1994-1997 (when setting up these LAFCO ANNEXATIONS without board direction or approval) and his recent unethical return (2014-2019) to specifically create a funding source for the development of extremely expensive groundwater wells. You see, Kampa & Kompany needed these expensive groundwater wells to produce the legally required “ALTERNATE WATER SOURCE” with which to replace every drop of MERCED RIVER WATER that leaves the entitled subdivision. That way there is no technical violation of the water license. Doesn’t make much sense huh? Extremely expensive, undependable, and lower quality water just to produce groundwater to provide properties outside the subdivision with water for development which only increases the total water demand of the district. Worse yet, the thousands of legal using MR WECs have been paying more for their water service since “day one” because the additional costs are simply passed on to this theoretical “deep pocket”. Absolute bullshit. Pete Kampa brought a host of “dirty political tricks” to Lake Don Pedro. REM? Two “place holders” ran for positions, then suddenly withdrew, leaving Kampa and his “yes directors” to choose replacements. And what have all these KAMPA DIRECTORS brought this community? This Board has also in the recent past clearly noticed its intention to resume providing and expanding their EXPENSIVE EMERGENCY DROUGHT GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION TO PROPERTIES OUTSIDE THE SUBDIVISION. Remember last April? Kampa trying to get properties to start paying “availability fees” so they could later claim they had a right, or rather, misguided expectation of special benefit subsidized water service? https://lakedonpedro.org/2018/09/ “STANDBY WATER FEE” disingenuously changed to “AVAILABILITY FEE” REM? The difference between the original and logical name for LDPCSD future water fees placed on county property tax bills? They were called WATER STANDBY FEES because subdivision properties are ENTITLED TO WATER AT ANY TIME UPON DEMAND, therefore, the district had to be on STANDBY TO PROVIDE WATER IF REQUESTED BY A SUBDIVISION PROPERTY OWNER. Later (as the district and counties were wrongfully expanding water service far outside the subdivision through HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS ANNEXATIONS INTO THE LDPCSD SERVICE AREA IN VIOLATION OF LAFCO’S OWN REGULATIONS) it was decided to better CONCEAL THIS GLARING EVIDENCE OF ACTUAL WATER ENTITLEMENT OF PROPERTIES IN THE SUBDIVISION, to change the ADDITIONAL FEES ON PROPERTY TAXES to an “AVAILABILITY CHARGE”, because there was no legal guarantee water would be provided, but “maybe” if available. Just one of many sneaky plans used through the years to further disguise continuing wrongful activities that all legal water users in the subdivision have paid for since the LDPCSD was formed in August 1980. No wonder the official LDPCSD water service boundary map has been missing for over 40 years!!! Recall also that back then a special law had to be passed in Sacramento to raise the maximum STANDBY FEE from $10/acre to $60/acre due to the limited number of actual residents in the subdivision at the time. So what did the district do with those additional funds? Continued extending main pipelines outside the subdivision and violating the water license restrictions on Merced River water use! What did the LDPCSD do with the last Prop 218 to raise rates and fees? We had over a million in cash when Kampa was unethically returned as GM through a BOARD DESIGNED CLOSED RECRUITMENT PROCESS! This board unequivocally supported installing expensive groundwater wells with misrepresented grant applications … Continue reading ONLY 1 AGENDA ACTION ITEM: Another real estate request for more OMIDPOU* groundwater substituted water service? (oh yeah, and 2 of our 4 groundwater wells are currently offline)