The giant Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, which supplies water to member agencies serving 19 million people from Ventura to Riverside to San Diego, raised the basic rate it charges its customers by 75 percent from 2006 to 2012 and has 5 percent raises scheduled this year and again in 2014. This staggering short-term [...]
Southern California’s largest water agency has accumulated an estimated $545 million in debt because of an uncommon retirement benefit it has promised employees: lifetime medical care. The cost will eventually be passed on to millions of Southern California water consumers. If employees work at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for at least 10 [...]
By Don Ings & Malin Burnham 5 p.m.Feb. 2, 2013 Over the years, we’ve come to expect the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to behave badly in its dealings with the San Diego County Water Authority, but its latest act sets a new low-water mark. Since 2006, the giant Los Angeles wholesaler, [...]
An L.A.-based water district, which has long been at war with San Diego’s regional water municipality, secretly hired local lobbyists, and hid the work through a small, member agency in Riverside County, according to the San Diego County Water Authority. California Strategies, LLC, a local lobbying outfit, is being paid $15,000 a month to work [...]
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Riverside’s water authority hired a consultant for $15,000 a month to work with key stakeholders in San Diego, like the Chamber of Commerce and the Economic Development Council. The San Diego County Water Authority, CWA, is wondering why. The allegation is that Riverside is siding with the powerful LA-based Metropolitan Water District, which is locked in [...]
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A San Diego agency is suing Riverside County’s largest water district for failing to release documents related to a $15,000-a-month consulting contract. Eastern Municipal Water District, headquartered in Perris, has paid $60,000 to California Strategies, a Sacramento-based public affairs company hired in August to “provide government and community relations strategy” on policy issues, according to [...]
Eastern, lawsuit, metropolitan water district, newsA Riverside County water agency is spending $15,000 a month on government and community relations in San Diego County, and the water authority here is waging a legal battle to find out why. The San Diego County Water Authority filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Eastern Municipal Water District in Perris, seeking public documents [...]
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Docs show airfare, new PR position, lost receipts SAN DIEGO – Team 10 examined how the regional agency that sends water to Southern California spent rate payer money over a five-month period. The findings include employee reimbursements approved despite lost receipts, thousands of dollars spent on flying an executive to business meetings from his out-of-state [...]
lawsuit, metropolitan water district, rates, rising costs, san diego county water authority, truthA Superior Court judge has expedited the San Diego County Water Authority’s challenge to the Metropolitan Water District by allowing two separate water rate lawsuits to be pursued simultaneously. In the ruling on Friday, Superior Court Judge Richard A. Kramer said he would coordinate the agency’s two challenges to wholesale water rates set by the [...]
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The Moorpark City Council on Wednesday will consider recommending a 4.5 percent water rate increase in the city next year. Last month, an advisory committee for Ventura County Waterworks District No. 1, which provides water to Moorpark and surrounding areas, recommended the increase for Tier 1 municipal and industrial water customers.
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