Taxpayers Watch? We Want Our $9,247.50, and We Want it Now!
Los Osos? On July 31 (Thursday morning), you have a rare and beautiful opportunity to get a little sweet, sweet payback at the people that did this to you.
That's when the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) will consider a "request" by the shady citizens group, "Taxpayers Watch," to allow that group more time to pay off a nearly $30,000 bill they racked-up during their frivolous attempt to "dissolve" the Los Osos Community Services District beginning in 2006, shortly after the same people behind Taxpayers Watch were recalled from that same LOCSD Board.
[Yep. That's exactly how that sequence went down: They got recalled, and instantly turned so bitter that they spent $30,000 (at least) of their own money trying to eliminate the very government agency that they were just recalled from. The gall impresses me.]
If you're one of the thousands that witnessed recalled CSD Directors', Gordon Hensley and Richard LeGros (aka: Taxpayers Watch), act before and after the recall -- like ignoring the vast majority of Los Osos, and deliberately setting their own recall date at one of the latest possible dates, and, of course, by doing so, bought themselves the extra month needed to cash a $6.5 million state check and immediately begin ripping up environmentally sensitive land to build an extremely unpopular, technically embarrassing, mid-town sewer plant, and that action needlessly saddled the town with millions upon millions of dollars of debt, or how, after they lost the recall election, before the results were even certified, their operatives developed (and implemented) a "strategy" to have the entire town of Los Osos "fined out of existence" -- then you HAVE to carve out some time on the morning of July 31, and go to that LAFCO meeting, and speak up.
Not since the recall has the town of Los Osos had such a beautiful "get 'em" moment.
Here's all you have to do: Show up, en masse, at that meeting and tell the LAFCO Board to NOT grant Taxpayers Watch an "extension" on their payment schedule -- an extension that LAFCO staff is recommending.
That's it. That's all you have to do. If you can convince LAFCO to NOT grant that time extension, Taxpayers Watch is going to be forced to come up with $9,000, pronto... or else!
After the Taxpayers Watch dissolution attempt officially failed in late 2006, following "4 hearings over a nine month period," LAFCO wasn't about to pick up the hefty administrative tab for such a blatantly frivolous action, so they told Taxpayers Watch to pay nearly $30,000 to help cover the cost of the fiasco, which they have been paying, at a clip of $1,000 per month.
However, here's where it gets interesting: They got behind on their payments.
"If the (LAFCO) Commission doesn’t follow the staff recommendation (and grant the time extension), Taxpayers Watch would be required to pay the balance pursuant to the terms of the Stipulation for Entry of Judgment," wrote Paul Hood, LAFCO executive officer, in an e-mail for this story.
He added, "Taxpayers Watch continued with the payment of $1,000 at the end of June and another payment is due at the end of July. After the July payment the balance will be $8,247.50 out of a beginning balance of $27,747.50."
According to Hood, if Taxpayers Watch does not get their extension on July 31, and can't come up with $9-large in a hurry, "Enforcement would be through the courts because they signed the Stipulation as a condition of LAFCO not pursuing the lawsuit to require payment in 2007."
How sweet would that be... "enforcement" would rain down on the same people that are attempting (present tense) to get the entire town of Los Osos "fined out of existence." (Payback's a bitch, huh, Taxpayers Watch?)
Furthermore, and this is huge, had the dissolution attempt been successful, and the LOCSD had been wiped off the map, the millions upon millions of dollars in debt that the pre-recall board (aka: Taxpayers Watch) needlessly racked-up in the few weeks before the recall election (that they deliberately set at one of the latest possible dates), would have been transferred to county taxpayers... and Taxpayers Watch knew that, and didn't give a flip!
With their dissolution attempt, Taxpayers Watch essentially said to county taxpayers, "Look, we don't care if you guys get stuck paying the millions upon millions of dollars we wasted covering up our sewer plant lies over a seven year period in Los Osos, we're unbelievably bitter people, and we are going to do anything we can to eliminate the very agency we created, because the voters of Los Osos don't want US anymore... and, oh yea, we're also going to make sure that those same voters get 'fined out if existence.' And, even if our dissolution attempt isn't successful, we will still have forced the post-recall LOCSD to waste a ton of time and money fighting us, and that will cripple them, and also help terminate the CSD. Did I mention that we're unbelievably bitter people?"
Think about this. It's an outrage: Taxpayers Watch showed that level of disregard for county taxpayers, yet, LAFCO is on the verge of rewarding them with a HUGE favor by granting them an extension to their already-agreed-to payment schedule.
That's insulting.
Obviously, Taxpayers Watch doesn't care about county taxpayers, so why should county taxpayers care about them?
We want our $9,247.50, and we want it now!
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The LAFCO meeting will be held at the Board of Supervisor's chambers at the county government center in downtown SLO. It begins at 9;00 a.m. If you can't make the July 31 meeting, you can e-mail Paul Hood your comments at: phood@slolafco.com
That's when the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) will consider a "request" by the shady citizens group, "Taxpayers Watch," to allow that group more time to pay off a nearly $30,000 bill they racked-up during their frivolous attempt to "dissolve" the Los Osos Community Services District beginning in 2006, shortly after the same people behind Taxpayers Watch were recalled from that same LOCSD Board.
[Yep. That's exactly how that sequence went down: They got recalled, and instantly turned so bitter that they spent $30,000 (at least) of their own money trying to eliminate the very government agency that they were just recalled from. The gall impresses me.]
If you're one of the thousands that witnessed recalled CSD Directors', Gordon Hensley and Richard LeGros (aka: Taxpayers Watch), act before and after the recall -- like ignoring the vast majority of Los Osos, and deliberately setting their own recall date at one of the latest possible dates, and, of course, by doing so, bought themselves the extra month needed to cash a $6.5 million state check and immediately begin ripping up environmentally sensitive land to build an extremely unpopular, technically embarrassing, mid-town sewer plant, and that action needlessly saddled the town with millions upon millions of dollars of debt, or how, after they lost the recall election, before the results were even certified, their operatives developed (and implemented) a "strategy" to have the entire town of Los Osos "fined out of existence" -- then you HAVE to carve out some time on the morning of July 31, and go to that LAFCO meeting, and speak up.
Not since the recall has the town of Los Osos had such a beautiful "get 'em" moment.
Here's all you have to do: Show up, en masse, at that meeting and tell the LAFCO Board to NOT grant Taxpayers Watch an "extension" on their payment schedule -- an extension that LAFCO staff is recommending.
That's it. That's all you have to do. If you can convince LAFCO to NOT grant that time extension, Taxpayers Watch is going to be forced to come up with $9,000, pronto... or else!
After the Taxpayers Watch dissolution attempt officially failed in late 2006, following "4 hearings over a nine month period," LAFCO wasn't about to pick up the hefty administrative tab for such a blatantly frivolous action, so they told Taxpayers Watch to pay nearly $30,000 to help cover the cost of the fiasco, which they have been paying, at a clip of $1,000 per month.
However, here's where it gets interesting: They got behind on their payments.
"If the (LAFCO) Commission doesn’t follow the staff recommendation (and grant the time extension), Taxpayers Watch would be required to pay the balance pursuant to the terms of the Stipulation for Entry of Judgment," wrote Paul Hood, LAFCO executive officer, in an e-mail for this story.
He added, "Taxpayers Watch continued with the payment of $1,000 at the end of June and another payment is due at the end of July. After the July payment the balance will be $8,247.50 out of a beginning balance of $27,747.50."
According to Hood, if Taxpayers Watch does not get their extension on July 31, and can't come up with $9-large in a hurry, "Enforcement would be through the courts because they signed the Stipulation as a condition of LAFCO not pursuing the lawsuit to require payment in 2007."
How sweet would that be... "enforcement" would rain down on the same people that are attempting (present tense) to get the entire town of Los Osos "fined out of existence." (Payback's a bitch, huh, Taxpayers Watch?)
Furthermore, and this is huge, had the dissolution attempt been successful, and the LOCSD had been wiped off the map, the millions upon millions of dollars in debt that the pre-recall board (aka: Taxpayers Watch) needlessly racked-up in the few weeks before the recall election (that they deliberately set at one of the latest possible dates), would have been transferred to county taxpayers... and Taxpayers Watch knew that, and didn't give a flip!
With their dissolution attempt, Taxpayers Watch essentially said to county taxpayers, "Look, we don't care if you guys get stuck paying the millions upon millions of dollars we wasted covering up our sewer plant lies over a seven year period in Los Osos, we're unbelievably bitter people, and we are going to do anything we can to eliminate the very agency we created, because the voters of Los Osos don't want US anymore... and, oh yea, we're also going to make sure that those same voters get 'fined out if existence.' And, even if our dissolution attempt isn't successful, we will still have forced the post-recall LOCSD to waste a ton of time and money fighting us, and that will cripple them, and also help terminate the CSD. Did I mention that we're unbelievably bitter people?"
Think about this. It's an outrage: Taxpayers Watch showed that level of disregard for county taxpayers, yet, LAFCO is on the verge of rewarding them with a HUGE favor by granting them an extension to their already-agreed-to payment schedule.
That's insulting.
Obviously, Taxpayers Watch doesn't care about county taxpayers, so why should county taxpayers care about them?
We want our $9,247.50, and we want it now!
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The LAFCO meeting will be held at the Board of Supervisor's chambers at the county government center in downtown SLO. It begins at 9;00 a.m. If you can't make the July 31 meeting, you can e-mail Paul Hood your comments at: phood@slolafco.com
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