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"Going forward with the same type of fee isn't what we wanted to support," Eiskamp said.
Let's hear it, Farm Bureau?

Carella said the court ruled the process for adopting the augmentation fee -- not the fee itself -- was the problem. This time the board will follow the mandates of state Proposition 218, which requires voter approval of tax measures.

Fees and taxes are not the same thing under the law, yet newspapers constantly conflate them.

This fee (tax) is a good thing if it covers costs AND reduces overdrafting. I'd be happy to give anyone more testimony in support.

David (aguanomics.com )

A-Hole Osmer was not quoted? Was he not there? Or is he too busy running his other 5 job titles he has.
Like C.C.E.S. Program Director? High turnover rate like always at that place...They let go of people last year yet they are now HIRING for the same positions? Does that make sense or what???

Unbelieveable! Same old tired story. More time and money wasted on prolonging the inevitable. But what the hell, staff keeps accumulating huge retirement credits and The Agency helps the recoverey of the economy by hiring every consultant that knocks on the door! The farm burro likes any plan that they don't have to pay for, and which will allow their president to continue covering up the ground with plastic so that no rain like the huge one we just had will recharge the aquifer he is mining. Enough of "Fiddling while Rome burns."!ALLOCATE WHAT WATER WE HAVE LEFT TO ALL USERS BASED ON A SUSTAINABLE(after plastic) AMOUNT. THEN LIVE WITH IT!!!!!

Berry Well wrote:

Unbelieveable! Same old tired story. More time and money wasted on prolonging the inevitable. But what the hell, staff keeps accumulating huge retirement credits and The Agency helps the recoverey of the economy by hiring every consultant that knocks on the door! The farm burro likes any plan that they don't have to pay for, and which will allow their president to continue covering up the ground with plastic so that no rain like the huge one we just had will recharge the aquifer he is mining. Enough of "Fiddling while Rome burns."!ALLOCATE WHAT WATER WE HAVE LEFT TO ALL USERS BASED ON A SUSTAINABLE(after plastic) AMOUNT. THEN LIVE WITH IT!!!!!

Did it ever occur to you that water runoff from the plastic still meets the ground somewhere and recharges the aquifer there? It doesn't go into space or suspended animation, it still percolates into the ground somewhere. Wacko environmentalism. I guess UCSC or some other non-think tank bred the common sense out of you.

Lets start taxing the air we breath as well ..a balanced budget is a must !

Couple story here....each parcel owner/farmer looks at the other as a foe in a 2-dimensional plane. In a 3-dimensional view, the are connected to one another by the aquifer which they are destroying. The so-called PVWA agency is the shot-gun wedding or unholy matrimony that connects them to one another. They have to pay into the system to save one another for the time being. In the end they will destroy the acquifer.....go Doug and get them.

Silva wrote:

Couple story here....each parcel owner/farmer looks at the other as a foe in a 2-dimensional plane. In a 3-dimensional view, the are connected to one another by the aquifer which they are destroying. The so-called PVWA agency is the shot-gun wedding or unholy matrimony that connects them to one another. They have to pay into the system to save one another for the time being. In the end they will destroy the acquifer.....go Doug and get them.

The aquifer's almost entirely pumped down below sea level year round now and only getting exponentially worse yearly as the same 200% overdraft pumping rolls on.
There is no more "solution" or "fix" available....no pipeline....no water, no cry?

All that's left is what in war is called triage, which we will see manifested locally in "demand management".

The longer the status quo Water/Berry Ponzi Scheme continues, the more severe the "management" must and will be.

In our case though, the Bernie Madoffs (eg. the Driscolls, Doles, CalGiants, and TRICALs) just jet off in their GulfStreams.