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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Water group wants to know 
what 'specialty organization' is

(Editor's note: We provide the following because a great number of our readers live in the Pine-Strawberry area and have no other access to reliable, unbiased information on the water situation in the area.)

Next regular Pine Strawberry Water Improvement District Meeting: Thursday Dec. 16 at 7:30 PM at the Pine Cultural Center.

The Nov. 18 meeting was cancelled because the agenda was not posted on the website at least 24 hours prior, as required by law.

Comment: When the agenda wasn’t posted on-line I (the guy the Roundup doesn't want to associate with us) went and looked at the agenda posted outside the door to the PSWID offices. Other than the basic monthly stuff, the only item on the agenda was to discuss the installation of a meter for a “specialty organization”. An interesting term. My guess is that it is code for either some entity that wants a free meter installation or a meter for a large volume water user. Why not just name who it is in the agenda instead of hiding it?

District Manager’s Status Report
The interim District Manager, Mr. Danny Stephens, sent an email to the PSWID mailing list (and it is now posted on the PSWID website: www.pswid.org) outlining status.

The following was addressed:
“We have begun staff transitioning. On Monday of this week, two human resource representatives were on site. In a presentation to staff we went over several items. We discussed how CH2M HILL began, some of our business philosophies, pay schedules, and benefit packages. An HR person will be on site again real soon to go over benefits in more detail. Most all employees have completed our required drug screen and are beginning to schedule physical exams. Our HR department is also putting together employment offer letters as well.

“We are in the 3rd week of the well test on the Milk Ranch well. Monday morning we increased flow to a pumping rate of 100 gpm and today the turbidity reading was 9.5 NTU and the sand concentration was 20 mg/l. We are seeing the same pattern as we did with lower pump rates. At the beginning of the rate change the numbers jump up and then begin to drop over time.

“The status of Strawberry Hollow 3 remains the same. The banks attorney is in the process of reviewing all of the documents. Once complete we should be able to close escrow.”

October Financials
The financial data can be found at: http://www.pswid.org/ , then click on the Financial Data link that can be found under the PSWID logo.  There was a big infusion, $97,706.96, of property tax money this month which makes the financials look better.

Election Results
The election results numbers that I used in the last email were apparently not the final numbers. The overall outcome did not change, but the final numbers are:
Mr. Ron Calderon 846
Mr. Mike Claxton 871
Mr. Mike Greer 908
Mr. Howard Matthews 649
Mr. Marvin Mortensen 648
Writein 12

Posted the rain report for October. It can be found here: http://www.waterforpinestrawberry.com/Hydrology.htm

This update is from the group Water For Pine Strawberry. We will provide an update after each of the PSWID meetings with a summary of what the board did, additional facts that are relevant to what went on, and some commentary. Updates on earlier meetings are available on our website: www.WaterForPineStrawberry.com .

Water For Pine Strawberry is a group of residents who are concerned about the community’s water issues and how they can best be resolved. Visit our web site, www.WaterForPineStrawberry.com, for more information. The website for PSWID is www.pswid.org .

Clarifications can be submitted by anyone who is explicitly named, implicitly identifiable, or a board member to items in this update. Clarifications will be posted on our website. We reserve the right to post a response. Clarifications must deal with the topics discussed in the update that relate to the individual or the board. They must be in family friendly language and be non-abusive. When the clarification is accepted, it will be posted to the website and notice of that posting will be added to the next update.

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