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Category: SCVWD (page 3)

Let the sun shine

Today’s Board meeting had quite a few interesting items. First was the continuation of the groundwater charge hearing, in which…
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Posted on: 22 April, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana

Mercury asks for term limits

The new District Act is getting more press. The Mercury editorializes this morning that elected directors should be limited to…
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Posted on: 16 April, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana

The District Act makes the news

Today’s Mercury has an article and a sidebar about the proposed amendments to the District Act, the state law that…
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Posted on: 13 April, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana

Landscape Mode

Today was the meeting of the Landscape Advisory Committee. The biggest event at the meeting, I thought, was Ron Kanemoto’s…
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Posted on: 10 April, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana

OPEB

It stands for “Other Post-Employment Benefits,” and it means retiree healthcare for life. The Government Accounting Standards Board now requires…
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Posted on: 9 April, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana

Delta blues

Back to back SCVWD meetings. This morning’s highlights: a presentation on the Delta, brief discussion on filling vacant unclassified positions,…
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Posted on: 25 March, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana

Making plans

This morning’s special Board meeting dealt with the District’s Capital Improvement Program, which is the District’s rolling five-year plan for…
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Posted on: 24 March, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana

Not that EAC

The SCVWD Board has a number of advisory committees that consider issues relating to different aspects of the District’s activities…
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Posted on: 17 March, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana

Channeling

At today’s Board Meeting, the Board adopted amendments to their policies relating to flood control to explicitly call for “the…
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Posted on: 11 March, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana

Going with the flow

I attended this morning’s special board meeting, where the board went through an unsorted list of issues to establish priorities…
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Posted on: 5 March, 2008 Last updated on: 5 May, 2009 Written by: diana
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