[GPSCC-chat] Water District Conflict of Interest

[Wes Rolley]

How many readers live withing the boundaries of District 6 of the Santa 
Clara Valley Water District?  That District is mostly in the E and Cent. 
portions of San Jose. A link to the map of the district can be found 
online here 
<http://valleywater.org/About/Board_of_Directors/District_Boundaries.aspx> 
but takes a long time to download at 14 B.

With important issues regarding the Governor's plan for a pair of hugely 
costly tunnels as the ":California Water Fix", the makeup of the Water 
District's Board is especially important.  They are being asked to 
guarantee funding for the tunnels.

It would appear that District 6 Director, Tony Estremera, has a conflict 
of interest in that he is also listed as CoChair of the California 
Latino Water Caucus, reported by the media as being a greenwashed front 
organization for the Westlands Water District.  I would urge all of you 
to read a recent story from the NY Times 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/31/us/farmers-try-political-force-to-twist-open-californias-taps.html?_r=0> 
and the editorial from the Mercury News 
<http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_29446629/mercury-news-editorial-stop-delta-tunnel-water-madness> 
last week.

I am suggesting that all of us living within the district boundaries 
contact our own district directors (mine is John Varela, once a mayor of 
Morgan Hill.   Express the point of view that Estremera should recuse 
himself from any votes involving the tunnels and how to pay for them 
while still connected to Westlands PR operations.

Those who do live in his district should make sure that their neighbors 
understand that he is not necessarily acting on their behalf, but has 
direct ties to very wealthy power players in the CA Water Wars.


-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, 
then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/
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