The SCVWD Board started its budget workshop today. This morning was taken up by a financial overview, presented by Peter Ng. Here are the highlights.
The Board was pretty accepting of these numbers, although there were questions about the ability of the District to spend the unprecedented capital budget proposed this year.
After lunch, the tone changed. […]
After lunch and a closed session, the Board reconvened to hear a presentation by Joan Maher and former Director Greg Zlotnick on the Delta. It is their opinion that this current attempt to “fix” the Delta is going somewhere, and that Governor Schwarzenegger has a large amount of political capital invested in its success. The […]
Today’s Board meeting was pretty lively. The boardroom was prepared for a large turnout from the public, and certainly there were more people there than I’ve seen in the past, although the overflow chairs went unused. The issue that brought people out was the prospect of the District’s closing its reservoirs to boating in response […]
You may recall that the Landscape Advisory Committee, back on April 10, recommended that the District raise water rates by more than the suggested amounts, to encourage water conservation and to fund other needed capital projects.
The Agricultural Water Advisory Committee did no such thing today. After the groundwater charges presentation (my fourth viewing; this one […]
The District has posted a PDF with answers to all those frequently-asked questions about the amendments to the District Act.
Why wasn’t this amendment made
during [the] 2006 District Act change?
The 2006 District Act amendment ended the
duplicative county oversight of the Water District’s
budget and other procedural holdovers from a
40-year-old political arrangement between the Water
District and the […]
The Clean, Safe Creeks and Natural Flood Protection Program Independent Monitoring Committee (whew!) met tonight. This body was established as part of Measure B, passed by 2/3 of the voters back in 2000, and due to run until 2015. The presentations are not available online, as far as I can tell.
The Clean, Safe Creeks program […]
Today’s Merc has a very brief article about Thursday’s joint meeting between the SCVWD Board and the San José City Council. Mostly it dwells on Mayor Reed’s opening remarks about the fragility of the Delta. Nice that they’re paying attention.
This morning saw a joint meeting between the SCVWD Board and the San José City Council. The study session dealt with three issues: water supply, water conservation and recycling. The presentation is available here.
It was a very heartening meeting. All of the participants were engaged and cooperative. The council members wanted to be sure that […]
This is the third time I’ve seen the groundwater charge presentation, and I keep coming back to the chart of the projected increases. Here it is again:
How many entities feel confident enough to get up and say “You’re going to be paying almost 10% more per year, every year, into the foreseeable future”? I can’t […]
The Water Commission met today. Despite the huge list of members, only 9 were in attendance, as well as Directors Wilson and Sanchez. The District web site as late as last night listed the meeting date as 23 March 2008, with no posted agenda, but that’s all fixed now, so the agenda is here.
This meeting […]