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Monday, September 05, 2016

Sewer Politics Alive And Well In 2016

It is a sad comment that despite the fact the sewer is up and running, and that we all will be hooked up to in the coming year, sewage is again entering the race for a director's seat on the LOCSD. A candidate leftover from the Recall Board appears to be running on her past failure. (Click on the image for a larger size.) See these examples off of the candidate's own Facebook pages.

"Moved the sewer?" Yes, we all know, the sewer is out of town - but the COUNTY had to build it because the CSD went bankrupt from stopping the old project! The current sewer is $29 MILLION more expensive. PLUS, all the years to wait for a project caused the groundwater situation to worsen exponentially. If that is something to be proud of—you must have no idea of the hardship this has caused to lower income residents, never mind the stress of the CDOs—remember those?—a direct result of the Recall Board stopping the project the way that it did.

Maybe we should ponder the decision-making from said candidate; consider these quotes:

Julie Tacker asserts:


Roger Briggs said that the Water Board could assess fines to the community of up to $44 million, or $10,000 per day per individual home. Here is what he said:



Negotiate prices? Of what exactly? Some negotiation "success" looking at Briggs' comment! 

The State did not think that the LOCSD's "stop work order" could be done without first asking permission. So they cut off the SRF funding. Not surprisingly, stopping the work illegally was considered a delay, but they had a remedy - which was ignored (see Attachment A).

Tacker thought that the District could just "abandon their current arrangement and get back in line for another loan."* HAH! That is the epitome of uninformed and/or delusional thinking. Voters, you be the clear-thinking judge in November.

* Bay News, October 5-11, 2005.





2 comments:

Anonymous said...

But I thought she said she didn't want to bring up the past?

Sewertoons AKA Lynette Tornatzky said...

Go figure! I guess she thinks because 3 or 4 fans like her role in the expensive debacle, that those reminders are popular with everyone else. NOT!!!!