Sewerwatch Posting -- Saving Face
Ron, over at www.sewerwatch.blogspot.com has responded to a reader's Sewerville question on one of my previous postings with a posting of his own. Until we hear from the real players, his script will have to do. Lights! Camera! Action!
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Considering this morning's newspaper report of the deal between the state and the CSD, the question really ought to be whether the CSD should sign onto the agreement.
I would suggest yes because if they don't, they'll be on the hook for all the contract work done so far, they'll owe the state for the funds already given to the CSD.
If they do say yes, however, they'll have to do a few things ... work on the new out-of-town plant on a strict timetable, continue work on the collection system and agree to a vote of property owners to move the project out of town.
The Trib actually doesn't phrase this last issue exactly this way, the property owners must formally agree to pick up the tab should work stop on a new, out-of-twon plant. On the other hand, considering the CSD agrees to continue work at TriW should the vote fail, this vote is essentially an opportunity for property owners to agree to give the new board a chance or an opportunity for property owners to tell the new CSD that we would prefer TriW and it's fixed costs to the uncertainties of an out-of-town project.
Dear Inlet, this is getting funny. "TriW and it's fixed costs." Fixed costs? Bwahahahaha. Oh, dear.
Again, if the principal plus interest payments are fixed (at $140/month per household), we've fixed the majority of the bill.
If we throw caution to the wind an hope and pray, we have no idea where the principal and interest payments will end up. If they do end up about the same, the O&M payments will be better out of town. If we get hosed on the interest rate, fines, inflation, EIR or lawsuits, the lower O&M payments will be swamped by the higher P&I.
End of story.
This is why I like the agreement ... the state's requirements and timeline limit the worst case scenario (costwise) to be building at TriW in a few years and the associated increases due to inflation. Minimize the maximum cost, I say!
Dear Inlet, If you like the agreement, and it's possible a lot of people "like the agreement,"(if for no other reason than it MIGHT end up saving them long term money on O&M&R etc.,) then it looks like from this morning's paper, all the people who "like the agreement" may be SOL.
If so, then there will come out of the train wreck a terrible irony: The community will have to now know that there ALWAYS WERE options, one of which may well have been cheaper, options which they were denied by the Recalled Three. That will be a little gift to the community that will keep on giving every time the Prohibition Zone folks open their sewer bills and, year after year, watch the O&M&R costs ratchet up. They'll have to slap their hands to their foreheads and shriek, "Damn! I coulda had a V-8!"
Should we laugh? Or cry. Or hope somebody can get this train wreck back on track to play out "in good faith?" Or was good faith killed off at Day One?
Let's suppose for the moment that the SWRCB is unable to agendize a vote on the agreement with the LOCSD.
Let's further suppose that the costs end up being $265/month per household because of various things.
Who would you blame? The previous CSD because they could have given us more options that could have moved the plant out of town earlier, the current CSD because their actions raised our bills or both.
I would hope that you would blame both because it was both groups and their choices that have gotten us to this point.
I would blame both myself, but the current board moreso because they were the group that threw caution to the wind and bet that moving the plant would save us money.
Blame?!!! Blame should go to the guilty! There is one BIG villan in all this. The Coastal Commission and the Biggest perp. is the San Luis Obispo County Board of S(t)upervisors. Mike Green.
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