Don’t move a mussel
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Also in today’s Mercury, Santa Clara County has authorized spending $200,000 of the estimated $550,000 cost of the boat inspection program, allowing it to run on the four reservoirs until July. The supervisors have thus put the ball back in the SCVWD’s court, and the Board will take up the issue again at tomorrow’s meeting.
I wish there were a bit less brinksmanship here.
“We need to be abundantly clear that if the water district doesn’t pick up their half, then boaters will be taken off the waterways in high season,” Supervisor Liz Kniss said.
But I’m glad the county has ponied up.
Good luck in the election! I read the story about your campaign in a daily water/wastewater e-newsletter I subscribe to. Two things caught my eye: I used to live in Willow Glen before coming to southern California for college. I was also miffed in reading about the hiring of a former Board member to a high paying job w/out informing the rest of the Board. I’m the General Manager for a special district down here (wastewater) and that’s happened at least a couple of times in So. California in the past several years; I can’t emphasize how underhanded that comes off as, whether legal or not – it doesn’t serve any district, much less the water/wastewater sector in general, well at all. Please keep in mind, if you get onto the Board, there are many, many good people working hard and doing really good things in our sector, providing excellent value and service at reasonable rates. Best of luck to you!