<div dir="ltr">The meeting is going to be noticed with the agenda at the last legal minute by SLDMWA -- if they choose to hold it at SCVWD, that is their choice -- but Board meetings and workshops are public meetings so we have to be admitted.<div><br></div><div>Barbara</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Wes Rolley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wrolley@charter.net" target="_blank">wrolley@charter.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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There is to be a joint workshop between Santa Clara Valley Water
District and members of the San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority.
It will take place in both Los Banos and San Jose. This is from the
San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority notice:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the regular
April SAN LUIS & DELTA-MENDOTA<br>
WATER AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS meeting is scheduled for
Thursday, April<br>
7, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. The meeting will be held at two locations:<br>
• The Water Authority’s Boardroom, 842 Sixth Street, Los Banos,
California, and<br>
• Santa Clara Valley Water District’s Boardroom, 5700 Almaden
Expressway, San<br>
Jose, California.</blockquote>
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This is not on the published agenda for our Water District. So, I
called the Water District and spoke to the clerk of the Board. She
indicated that this is not an official Water District Board Meeting,
but rather a meeting of the San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority.
However, Directors of our Water District are on the Board of the San
Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority. It is not clear to what extent
this is a public meeting. All together, this is beginning to smell
like a back room deal with our money as rate payers. <br>
<br>
To my mind, this looks like a way to pull our Water District deeper
into the machinations of the San Luis Delta Mendota Water
Authority's financial problems, caused by the recent down grading of
their credit worthiness and the fine levied on their principal
customer, Westlands Irrigation District, but the SEC. It should be
protested in the most firm manner possible. <br>
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There are two ways to do this. One, we could show up at the water
district's boardroom to attend the San Luis Delta Mendota Water
Authority meeting. I would not put it past the Water Authority to
hold the meeting here in order to discourage public participation
that would happen in Los Banos. The other would be to send emails
to the Water District Board of Directors letting them know that we
will not tolerate our directors making behind the scenes deals. The
email address for this is: <a href="mailto:Board@valleywater.org" target="_blank">Board@valleywater.org</a><br>
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Major points to be made are as follows: <br>
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All decisions by the Board need to be made in as transparent a
manner as possible. There should be no back room deal with the
Water Authority. <br>
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The ongoing work for the "California Water Fix" will not add to the
water supply for CA and is not the most reasonable manner to ensure
that the current infrastructure continues to operate. <br>
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The fact that both the Westlands Water District and the San Luis
Delta Mendota Water Authority have had their credit ratings
downgraded due to creative accounting is yet another warning flag
that the rate payers of Santa Clara Valley could be put in the
position of spending addition $ Millions in order to prop up a
project that is on very risky financial footing.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div>-- <br>
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you
don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth"
- <i>Roberto Clemente</i></div>
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