Out With A Whisper

Today at the Board of Supervisors, the very, very last bit of the LOCSD's bankruptcy business was concluded and now all that remains is to make the payments to creditors. Off the agenda documents on the Consent Agenda:

1. The Chairman of the Board to execute the Assignment of the Solid Waste Collection Franchise Agreement between the County, the Los Osos Community Services District (LOCSD), Waste Connections, Inc. and Mission Country Disposal; and

2. The Auditor-Controller-Treasurer-Tax Collector (ACTT) to remit $2,800,000 from the County General Fund to the LOCSD for distribution among the LOCSD creditors; and

3. The ACTT to remit $772,029 from the Los Osos Wastewater Project Fund to the LOCSD for distribution among the LOCSD creditors.

There was one, lone public speaker, Marshall Ochylski. He thanked the BOS for their help on resolving of the seven year long bankruptcy. He certainly represented my thankfulness to them on getting that money and the thankfulness of my friends too. 

I congratulate Marshall on his success in this matter. As was mentioned at the last LOCSD meeting December 5, Marshall's many hours of legal work to get this done was all UNPAID. I truly and humbly thank him for those many, many hours. That the CSD could not have afforded to pay him was also mentioned at that meeting. I'm just glad that he had the time and the will to help out this community, which had no way to pay him.

Truly, the BOS authorizing the transfer of funds was our only hope for enough money to resolve the bankruptcy. Of course Marshall said nothing about the huge burden placed on the current board to finally get agreement and resolution to the mess that the "recall board" created in late 2005. That board, by their defiance of the State of California's rules and laws, not to mention the abandonment of common sense, resulted not only in the bankruptcy, but also in this expensive and lengthy standoff to the much needed work on repairing the damage to our only source of water, the one beneath our feet here in Los Osos. That damage to our aquifers has continued more or less unabated until our present wastewater project stepped in with the conservation funds to start the process of repairing the damage. That, and the product of the ISJ the Draft Basin Plan, with the physical steps needed to continue the repair work, will determine how well we will be able to live with what water we have left and if those vacant lot owners will ever get their investment back.