Well, here we go again…..the April 20th, 2017 Special Board Meeting of the Lake Don Pedro Community Services District (LDPCSD).  It’s called a “Special meeting” since the “regular monthly meeting” fell on a holiday so the postponed meeting is designated special……isn’t that special? — lol?  The old Saturday Night Live routine?  There I go voluntarily dating my “old timer’s view” again  –  so what?  Yes I am old and hopefully will get older since the alternative is not yet desired— emphasis on yet.

SOB

Meeting was the same old bullshit – customers ask questions and GM Pete Kampa and the Board of Directors refuse to answer or discuss the matter since it is not on the agenda (sometimes in the manager’s report which is not subject to the typical discussion/action process) YET when agenda requests are made by the public the Board President and GM Kampa simply refuse to place the matter on the agenda and PRESTO! no discussion, no action, and maintain status quo regardless of how unethical and deceptive.

Sure is a cute little system of completely ignoring very important district failures and the potential avenues for correction.  This “selective agenda item process” alone is enough to encourage ANYONE to believe something far more unethical and underhanded is going on behind the scene  – even without the other garbage so liberally doled out to our traditionally apathetic customer base.  (Apathy can be cultivated like any other crop you know.)

THAT’S IT!  ENOUGH ALREADY

Often after one of these meetings I exit believing it will be my last because there are so many other things I would rather be, and need to be doing, yet by the time I get home (after a short drive contemplating the new set of outrageous refusals by the board and GM to address legitimate questions by the public) I slowly start working on the next LDPCSD meeting report.  (Omitting all the internal shorthand inappropriate language of course – lol)

I guess the primary reason I continue this frustrating exercise in futility is to inform the public, but I will admit to the, albeit dwindling, hope that someone/agency with the authority to compel corrective action might eventually become involved.  Hope springs eternal yeah?  The corruption within the Lake Don Pedro CSD has continued for decades and will likely just limp into the future without some sort of intervention by “legitimate authorities”.   If the LDPCSD is representative of other rogue special districts in this state, the proposal to eliminate them all within 10 years (evidently discussed at a Little Hoover Commission meeting recently) might be a very good idea.

CSDA MAPPING ON LDPCSD WEBSITE?

Is it surprising that the CSDA (California Special District Association) apparently continues to support Pete Kampa no matter what he does here at LAKE DON PEDRO (or has done at other districts)?  A chain is only as strong as it’s weakest link – and without all those special districts there would be no CSDA.    How sad it is to lose faith in organizations you previously believed to be trustworthy and honorable because of the unrestrained SPECIAL INTEREST ACTIVITIES of someone like a Pete Kampa.

Sure, CSDA posts a Disclaimer that their presented map information on our LDPCSD WEBSITE may not be accurate, but is that an legitimate excuse for continuing that display when provided information that it is incorrect?

SIMPLE QUESTION ONLY IGNORED

For several years now I have attempted to understand the theory, policy, law, process, etc. behind forcing MERCED RIVER WATER entitled users within the LAKE DON PEDRO SUBDIVISION (mandatory customers of the CSD by reason of that property ownership) into subsidizing a SPECIAL BENEFIT groundwater substitution water service to properties OUTSIDE THE LEGAL PLACE OF USE UNDER WATER LICENSE 11395 that OUR DISTRICT has no LEGAL DUTY to provide.

Seems like a reasonable query raising issues of PROPOSITION 218 and how taxpayers should only pay for benefits which they actually receive.  Is that not the whole concept behind SPECIAL DISTRICTS such as our CSD?  You know, that customers are only responsible to pay for the costs of providing the service which they receive – and in this case that means potable drinking water to the subdivision?  How was such a worthy concept corrupted into forcing the 99% of legal MERCED RIVER WATER users into financially supporting expensive special benefit substitute groundwater service to properties outside the legal Place of Use?

NEW INFORMATION ON THE MAPPING PROJECT?

KAMPA is still stalling on the official district water service map.  Remember?  His unnecessary +$10,000 mapping project in response to a request to produce what was actually approved by the County of Mariposa and State of California?   (And not just what KAMPA & KOMPANY have unequivocally desired since the 1990s.)   Recall that the map approved by MARIPOSA COUNTY LAFCo disappeared shortly after we became a public agency in 1980?  That the original engineer’s survey still exists but a new map was never created in substitution of what was conveniently lost?  (Most would consider that a BIG CLUE.)

What about the official water service map on file with the State of California?  Strange, when I called the SWRCB (State Water Resources Control Board) years ago requesting their official map I had one emailed to me within the hour!

This is a good example of how a public agency should operate. A request for public information results in receiving that public information.  Not like the LAKE DON PEDRO CSD where obstructionism reigns to obscure the decades of fraud and outright lies provided to the mandatory and financially responsible customers of the subdivision.  (Facilitated through the loss/destruction of authentic documents and replacement with fabricated special interest material – all intended to conceal the truth of what was legally approved in an effort to continue district water service expansion using GROUNDWATER SUBSTITUTION FOR THOSE MERCED RIVER WATER TRANSFERS OUTSIDE THE PLACE OF USE OF WL11395.)

Well, like everything else in this world that appears unethical, immoral, illegal or injurious to innocent others……just follow the money for the reasons how and why it started and continues.

Golly Gosh, who would want cheap potable water from expensive unreliable groundwater wells paid for by an UNREPRESENTED AND CAPTIVE-MANDATORY CSD CUSTOMER BASE located in a traditionally drought prone fractured rock geologic area in the western Sierra Nevada foothills of California where Oak and rock studded grazing land is much less expensive?

 

 

“Hummm, guess I’ll try real estate brokers and speculative land developers for $50 Bob”.

My best to you and yours, Lew