LOWWP Press Release

http://www.losososcsd.org/Library/Home%20Page/ImmediateRelease_SLOPublicWorks_LOWWP.pdf

Details on the USDA loan, pre-construcion activities, community outreach.

Change.org Petition Sign Relocated

Moving this sign from the eastern area of Los Osos on Los Osos Valley Road to near our town's famous hamburger joint has not helped to capture more signatures. Right now, 9:24 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, there are 295 signatures of the 5,000 wanted, the last signing twenty-one days ago. The petition was started on January 27, 2012, four months ago or one hundred and twenty five days.

The message on the sign isn't clear, the lettering too small and confusingly outlined to really see in a drive-by; those could be the reasons for the petition's failure. Or perhaps people just would rather finish this present sewer project than sign a petition to nowhere??

YouTube Videos For Your Viewing Pleasure?

Earlier this month nine Step-supporting sewer videos hit the YouTube airwaves. The puzzle is why now? The sewer project has its permit, its money and it is poised to begin.

Here is a link to the first one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYcF_aHlMog

When you get to video number 9, a whole new political dynamic makes a presence. This is campaign season, but would these players help or hurt?

County Has Go Ahead to Start Construction

Read the letter from the California Coastal Commission to Paavo Ogren on this link:


http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assets/PW/LOWWP/document+library/Evironmental+Documents/COA$!27s/Condition+Compliance+Letter.pdf

Future Development in the Prohibition Zone

Saturday, May 26, 2012, the County of SLO posted an ad in the Tribune noting four conditions out of the Coastal Development Permit regarding future buildout on vacant lots. You can read that by following this link:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/classified-ads/ad/1879334#storylink=misearch

The scan version is what showed up in the classified section of the paper.

California Coastal Commission on Sewer Permit Revocation

It's on the June agenda:

9:00 A.M. FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 2012

15. REVOCATIONS.

a. Application No. R-A-3-SLO-09-055/069 (San Luis Obispo County Public Works Department, Los Osos) Request by Los Osos Sustainability Group to revoke permit granted to San Luis Obispo County Public Works Department for the Los Osos wastewater project (including treatment plant, collection and disposal system, and related infrastructure and development) in the community of Los Osos, San Luis Obispo County. (DR-SC)

http://www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html

You can find the link to the webcast on that day off of the page link above. This should mark the end of major attempts top block the sewer, which is moving ahead on schedule. 

USDA Money In The Bank!

Today at his Office Hours, Bruce Gibson announced that it the USDA loan, which funds approximately half of the sewer project, was approved at half a percent lower than was promised. The money is IN THE BANK! We have the money at 2.75%, not 3.25%! This is HUGE news as this brings the cost of the 40 year loan down by many thousands AND it is one less nagging point for the sewer haters to harp about.

Monterey Mechanical Appeals Los Osos Bankruptcy

The LOCSD's bankruptcy case isn't over yet. Monterey Mechanical has at the last minute appealed the judgement of the Federal Bankruptcy Court to the 9th District Court of Appeals, where to pull any information out of them down in Ventura, you need to bring your own portable copier to do it at the desk, or hire a service that does this for you.

We have a long wait. The briefing schedule will be determined in November or December and the hearing schedule determined in 2013.

"Did the Bankruptcy Court err in—" is repeated the seven times with the same questions as before (my paraphrasing, You can read the document in full here):

1. —overruling Monterey Mechanical's objection to the assertion that there was a fraudulent transfer of District assets to SLO County in violation of the bankruptcy code?

2. —accepting the CSD's appraisal of a property that might be more valuable to the creditor than stated (the mid-town or Tri-W property)?

3. —relying on Bruce Buel's testimony that the proceeds from the sale of District property would not be available to creditors?

4. —rejecting Monterey Mechanical's assertion of unfairness in the manner of repaying creditor's?

5. —rejecting Monterey Mechanical's statement that the bankruptcy plan was not proposed by the CSD in good faith because the Prohibition Zone is getting the benefit of property value enhancement and protection while paying nothing towards the debt, the County is being insulated from liability of the District's debts through confirmation of the plan rather than dissolution of the District which would pay the debt.

6. —confirming a plan that is not in the best interests of the creditors as the creditors would get 100 cents on the dollar through state law remedies if the bankruptcy plan was rejected.

7 —failing to decide many pivotal questions of state law thereby making the basis for its conclusion simply that this plan "was in the best interests of the creditors?"

Apparently this is not the last place they can go to appeal either. The CSD's coffers drain while Monterey Mechanical fiddles.