The Measure B Blot on CSD Agenda

Measure B! Remember that moldy corpse from the past, say 2005-ish? Well, if you don't, just read about it off this link. I find it too painful to go over one more time! It would be fair to say it cost the district thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in legal feels and, finally, it was declared invalid. Measure B stopped the $154 million sewer to bring us, when the County accepted the sewer project from the State, an $183 million sewer. "We Delay, We Pay" was the slogan back then and boy, has that ever been true. Look at the sewer cost history if you can stand to.*

Anyway, on the September 4, 2014 Closed Session portion of the Los Osos CSD agenda, Measure B once again rises from the dead invoked by the Regional Water Quality Control Board. The agenda item reads:

2. A.
RWQCB v. LOCSD in SLO Superior Court (CV051074) - Injunctive Relief Measure B

Well, we all know that what goes on in Closed Session, remains in Closed Session and we very seldom know what goes on in there. I tried to find that case on the SLO County Superior website, but no luck. Really, the definitions online for "injunctive relief" don't quite make sense here.

So we are left with speculation as to why this is here. Maybe this is simple housecleaning to discuss closing out the books on this? That is my hoped for wish.



*This is a copy & paste from a Word document that I got from Sorrel Marks at the Regional Water Quality Control Board:

Los Osos Wastewater Project – Timeline and Project Costs Increases

Date     Project Cost     Basis of Delays & Cost Estimates

1984    $34.6 million   Phase II Facilities Planning Study by Brown & Caldwell

1987    $48.5 million   Final Los Osos Wastewater Project EIR by The Morro Group

1991                                                    CAWS v. SLO County & RWQCB (Superior Court)*

1992                                                    CAWS v. SLO County (Superior Court)*

1995    $62.3 million   Los Osos Wastewater Study Task G Report on Detailed Evaluation of

Alternatives by Metcalf & Eddy

1997                            Supplemental EIR addressing treatment plant locations

1997                                                    TAPPS Appeal Coastal Development Permit to Coastal Commission

1997                                                    Coastal Commission requires additional Alternatives Evaluation

1997                                                    CAWS v. SLO County (Superior Court)*

1999                                                    CSD formed, begins new project development

2001    $84.6 million   Final Project Report by Montgomery Watson

2001                                                    Coleman v. Los Osos CSD (Superior Court)*

2001                                                    Keller v. Los Osos CSD (Federal Court)*

2001                                                    Keller v. Los Osos CSD (Federal Appeals Court)*

2002                                                    Keller v. Los Osos CSD (request for en banc review)*.

2002                                                    Grand Jury Investigation Report*

2002                                                    CASE v. California Coastal Commission (Superior Court)*

2003    $93 million                  50% Design cost estimate       

2004                                                    Cal Cities v. RWQCB & Los Osos CSD (Superior Court)*

2004                                                    CCLO/CASE Appeal Development Permit to Board of Supervisors

2004                                                    CCLO/CASE/Bhuta Appeal Development Permit to Coastal Commission

2004    $110 million    Redesign cost estimate

*All litigation has been ruled in favor of the wastewater project

CCLO = Concerned Citizens of Los Osos

CASE = Citizens for Affordable and Safe Environment

CAWS = Citizens for Affordable Wastewater Systems

TAPPS = Taxpayers Against Percolation Ponds