LOCSD Candidate's Forum 2016 Sewer Reference

Thursday night at the only LOCSD candidate's forum of this election season, a former director is running to be on the board again. While introducing herself, she reiterated her unsubstantiated LOCSD bankruptcy story—that it was not at all her fault. It is unclear as to why she even went to this topic, as maybe five people read this blog where I write about it. This is the only place that I know where this is even being mentioned these days, so is this opinion more widely held than I thought, that she needed to defend her version at the forum? I do post comments on the Tribune though......Have a look at the Nick Wilson article about the forum:
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics-government/election/article109796382.html

Well, anyway, time to move ahead with eyes firmly on the rearview mirror. Julie Tacker appears to want us to follow that unsettling path toward dissolution and we need to watch what she is up to. We have been down this gritty road before, I was there, so I know how hard attempting dissolution can be. We were not successful, despite the many weeks of work and lots and lots of money. Ms. Tacker is sowing the seeds for another attempt however, and it is yet another means of wrenching apart the community just as it was coming together after the 30-year sewer war. She wants dissolution to be on the next ballot. That is just SO WRONG.

Ms. Tacker came on the scene in 2002 and was one of the founders to initiated a campaign to reject the sewer project that we had then, which included filing lawsuits and appeals to state commissions and boards. She managed to get herself elected to the LOCSD in 2004 (she ran in 2002 and didn't win). Below is an image off of the "Concerned Citizens of Los Osos" website. She says she stepped down from being its President when elected. 

What she didn't step down from was the path to bankruptcy. I will post a chart below that shows how the cost for a sewer was upped year after year due to legitimate claims and then obstruction. The chart ends at mid-2005, before the recall election and the illegal Measure B. Note CCLO, Ms. Tacker's cause on the chart.

(Click on the image to increase the size.)

What happened to change public opinion was the slow dripping of anti-sewer opinions, each by itself meaning nothing, but over time, the tiny drips worked up to a concretion of resistance that froze the Mid-Town project in 2005. The bankruptcy soon followed. This dissolution idea has now begun its own drip. Do we sit here and watch it or do we stop it? This forum and the reporting of it is the first time the idea has landed in a very visible place: it only had a mention at a LOCSD meeting, and on Facebook, and that online crackpot rag, CalCoastNews. It has now has the legitimacy of The Tribune.

Ms. Tacker, the hypocrisy of running for a seat on a board that you wish to destroy is pretty amazing. It is getting a seat on that same board you nearly demolished in 2006. I guess if it wasn't killed off the first time, you try again, is that it? I can't help but think you have motives to do this beyond your claim of "saving money." That didn't work so well the last time, did it?