Thanks Amanda. Very nice. We appreciate it.

Roin

thanks, Amanda.
It has been an eventful year. Thanks for the great resource.
Anne

Since we moved to Cambria in Sept 2007 we have really enjoyed using this website as a resource for the important issues facing Cambrians. Thanks and good luck for the future.

Now is not the time for the CCSD to increase a combined water and sewer rate increase over 10%. The majority of customers depend upon social security and the assessed cost ol living increase for 2010 will be 0%. This action will further threaten the degraded economy of Cambria. Utility,materiel and labor costs can be reduced in a similar manner as accomplished by Adascadero. ( Ref: Tribune, Local, 4/30/09). Their city mananger said ” We need to make sure we can live within our means”. Specifically, Atascadero’s cost reduction process included layoffs for non critical job functions. Likewise , Cambria needs to stop funding lobbying. The message was conveyed in 2008.
By comparison the San Simeon Service District combined water/sewer charge was increased by only 4.2% for the 2008/2009 fiscal year despite the disadvantage of significantly fewer customers. The latest proposed increase should be lowered wherein our CCSD shares the economic downturn with its customers.

Amanda:

I appreciate you attending the BOS meeting (05/19/09) on the amendment to Title 26. It is to bad that Bruce Gibson failed to really try to answer your question about why the Level of Severity III has not been certified by the County BOS.

I know he referenced that they (county) really didn’t need to do a water resource capacity study because of the steps that are being taken by the CCSD, but on the otherhand, it is a mandatory requirement per the RMS.

The fact of the matter is they really don’t want to find out what we already know and that is with the Santa Rosa Creek MTBE issued resolved, the Coast Union well producing at a cost of well over 1 million dollars to the CCSD in extending water and sewer to the High School as part of the deal, the Pine Knolls tanks up and operating, there is no basis in this ’smoke and mirrors” water emergency.

The Kennedy-Jenks report used the USGS report as a baseline, and their assumptions did not take into account the current shape of things for the better.

The fact of the matter is that the County of San Luis Obispo does not want to be forced to fix the water problem for the CCSD upon their formal certification of LOS III severity, like they had to do in Los Osos for sewer.

As to designing a deslination plant to service or augment only half of the service area homes, is another waste of public monies, staff time, and does nothing that would have any chance of being permitted, even by the “feared” Coastal Commission whose hands are already tied based upon their approval of the existing project plan area (URL) for the sewer plant under PRC 30412.

Let’s finally start to spend public funds that will solve the problem, not to try to make another band aid fix.

I think even Bolinas is sinking under the state and federal water mandates.

Dear Amanda,
Thank you for your continued watch over our little city. You are one of a very precious few with our welfare at heart.

I want to let you know major progress was made in getting out the word about the danger our coast faces from the old sunken tanker “Montebello”. I got included in with several interviews about the ship in a documentary which aired on SF Channel 7 recently. I emphasized the high probability of at least one, (of the eight) 10,000 barrel oil compartments failing on the old hull sending many hundreds of thousands of gallons of Santa Maria crude oil toward our beautiful beaches.
The people at Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary have recently done a risk assessment on the old hull and I am trying to get a copy of it now. I will keep you appraised of their plans.

Best Regards,
Gary Talley

Amanda, A little bird told me that the puppy pictured here is up for adoption. Will you send me some info about him, please? Thanks, Anna