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?
