{"id":107,"date":"2008-10-31T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/how-dry-i-am\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T19:20:49","slug":"how-dry-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/how-dry-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"How dry I am"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to hope that you’re not getting your news from my blog (especially given the frequency with which I post) but I wanted to make sure that this piece of news didn’t slip by. The California State Department of Water Resources has announced<\/a> that 2009 allocations for the State Water Project, of which the SCVWD is a contractor, will be 15% of “normal.” This is an initial allocation, of course, that depends on winter conditions. Last year’s initial allocation was 25%, and rose to 35% after the winter rains. The last time initial allocations were lower was in 1993, when they started off at 10%, but rose to 100% after a good winter. Hope for a good winter.<\/p>\n

In other news, the SCVWD board on Tuesday voted 4-3 to raise their salaries by 10%. This sounds like a princely sum, until you read that this brings them up to $260 per meeting. Chair Kamai and Director Sanchez cast two of the no votes, the Mercury<\/i> story<\/a> doesn’t say who the third was, but I’d expect it was Director Wilson. Director Sanchez is going to decline the raise, as he has been doing.<\/p>\n

Director Kwok voted for the raise this year, changing his tack from last year, saying that higher pay would help bring in new blood. I’m afraid that an extra $23 a meeting isn’t going to do it. To get a real change in the quality of board members would take county supervisor-level salaries. But to get public acceptance of those, the board would also need to accept term limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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