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1/19/06
SewerWatch, a Santa Margarita-based blog covering the Los Osos sewer controversy, today will be filing a Citizen Complaint Form with the San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury calling for an investigation into the the Los Osos Community Services District Board from 1999-2005.
The complaint alleges that the initial CSD Board of Directors, subsequent Directors up to 2005, and staff members, deliberately misled, from 2000-2005, the County of San Luis Obispo, the California Coastal Commission, and the Regional Water Quality Control Board, that a "strongly held community value" exists in Los Osos that any wastewater treatment facility must also double as a "centrally located" "recreational asset."
Evidence shows that the initial CSD Board manufactured that "strongly held community value" in an attempt to coerce regulators into approving the "centrally located" Tri-W site as the location of their second proposed wastewater treatment facility/public park, even though evidence shows there was no rationale to site the second facility at Tri-W.
Evidence also suggests that the initial CSD Board manufactured the "strongly held community value" for "centrally located community amenities" in their second sewer project in an attempt to avoid public embarrassment for their role in their original ill-fated and poorly designed sewer alternative that played a pivotal role in establishing the CSD and getting the initial board elected in November, 1998.
According to its web site, one function of the Grand Jury is to, "investigate local government agencies and officials to form a view as to whether they are acting properly."
A copy of the complaint can be downloaded at:
sewerwatch.blogspot.com
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Time to grab the bull by the horns:
SewerWatch Citizen Complaint Form to the San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury (pdf)
