Updated September
2, 2001
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Recall the
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Are you being
asked to sign or circulate petitions seeking the recall of RLECWD Board
members?
If you circulate
petitions, you will be asked to explain and justify what is written in
the petitions; please read here to see if you really want to be placed
in that position.
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Recall should be given
up
says rate study chairman
Click here to read Rio
Linda News article, Click
here for transcript.
Mary Harris CRAW letter to
voters
libels Rio Linda Elverta News
Mary Harris, of Mary's Hair Salon, 1020 Q Street, Rio
Linda, sent a letter to Don Flesch, Editor/Publisher of the Rio Linda
Elverta News, on July 23, 2001. Don didn't publish it. Mary then posted
the letter as email on the Rio Linda Elverta email list on July
25. Don referred to Harris' letter in his July 26 column. Harris
then edited the letter and sent it to the Rio Linda/Elverta Registered
Voters who received it on August 16, 2001. Harris' letter libels the
Rio Linda News. Click here to read the
story about that letter. (updated 9/2/01)
Post Office Incident, June
29, 2001
On June 29, 2001, in violation of Federal Regulations,
volunteers set up a table and chairs on the premises of the Rio Linda
Post Office. The volunteers were collecting signatures for both the
Grant High School District Reorganization and for the petitions to
recall three Water Board members. Several confrontations were
perpetrated by the volunteers. Recall Facilitator Darrell Nelson, in
email sent that day, threatened "formal action" by a volunteer. Click here to read about this incident.
Recall and Water Rate Facts
The July 5, 2001 Rio Linda Elverta News front page
article, "Are you being confused about water rates and recall facts?"
covers facts either omitted or misquoted when signatures have been
solicited for our recall. This explains that the recall proponents have
a seat on the "Rate Committee" and are examining the rate structure
even before the Board of Directors. The myth about putting meters on private wells is
dismissed. Click here to read.
Why a RECALL?
A special recall election will cost the RLECWD $50,000! what good will it do for you?
Why not a REFERENDUM?
This recall is strictly a personal vendetta against us,
the three Board members being recalled. If it isn't a personalization
and really is the "rate issue", then why wasn't a referendum action
taken rather than three recall actions? A referendum would require the
collection of only 497 signatures instead of
the 6021 signatures necessary to recall us. A referendum would require
the Board to rescind its action or call an election; the $50,000 cost
of a special recall election could be avoided. See also the editorial
in the June 28 Rio Linda Elverta News.
A personal vendetta?
If this isn't "personal", then why were only two of the
three who voted for the new rates targeted for recall? Why is Jay
O'Brien targeted for recall when he supported the rate increase choice
of recall proponents Mary Harris and Darrell Nelson? Why was Board
President Doug Cater not targeted for recall, as he voted for the rates
objected to by the recall proponents? If you carry or sign these
petitions you are furthering a personal vendetta by Harris, Nelson and
Charlea Moore against Directors Griffin, O'Brien and/or Wickham. If you
carry or sign these petitions you are agreeing to impose a $50,000
expense on your Water District, which will be paid by ALL ratepayers,
not just those of you who are circulating and signing the recall
petitions. As a referendum petition could have been gathered with
minimum cost and effort, why support an expensive recall? A recall is
intended to allow the voters to remove thieves and other criminals from
office. Do you agree that Mel Griffin, Jay O'Brien and Jerry Wickham
are thieves or criminals? If so, where is your proof?
Darrell Nelson: facilitator
After preparing recall petitions for four members of
the Grant Joint Union High School District (GJUHSD) because of their
treatment of the Rio Linda High School Principal, the recall template
still present on Darrell Nelson's computer was revised to target three
members of the Rio Linda/Elverta Community Water District Board of
Directors. Nelson now contends he was not the author of the
error-filled documents, and he asserts that he didn't even make the
copies he served on us at the May 14 Board meeting. He says that he was
the facilitator, but he does not explain how and why a recall was
chosen as the desired action. He admitted, however, on May 26 that "I
have the documents on my computer"! It is indeed interesting that he
had the documents on his computer on May 26, yet he didn't author or
copy the documents he handed to us at the May 14th meeting. Read his many messages for more "clarification"
from Mr. Nelson. Do you really want to add your signature to these error-filled documents?
Different than Grant
Unlike the action against the GJUHSD Trustees, where
the notices are virtually identical and critical of those who did not
support the High School Principal, the notices filed against the RLECWD
Directors are personal attacks on the individual directors and are
riddled with untruths and grammatical errors. Use
a referendum for Grant?
Do you really want to add
your signature?
Please review the links below. Be sure of the facts
before you circulate or sign a petition for our recall.
Let the rate committee do
its job
The citizens rate committee is working diligently to
review the rate structure and recommend changes. Even though it's first
Chairman, Darrell Nelson, resigned in a huff without doing his job, the
committee of five is doing its best to represent you. The Board pledged
its support to that committee before the recall papers were served. The
committee expects to provide a recommendation to the Water Board at a
Board meeting soon. Why complicate their job by muddying the waters
with a recall.
Recall hurts the rate
committee
Can you expect a Board, the majority threatened with
recall, to respect the recommendations of a rate committee which has
one of the recall proponents, Mary Harris, as a member?
WHY NOW?
Is this the time to cause this turmoil? Don't add to
the problem created by this recall effort. Come to the Board meetings
to observe the recall proponents and to observe your elected Board.
Don't sign the petition until you have investigated both sides and
until you have agreed to the $50,000 cost of the recall.
Please
follow the links below:
Damaging Grant HS
Reorganization Project? Personal Attack?
Rio
Linda News 7/5/01: Reply letter to Recall Facilitator Darrell Nelson
Did you sign the petitions
and have now changed your mind?
Here's
a simple form you can print,
sign in three places and then
either
mail it to the Registrar of
Voters
or give it to Mel, Jerry or
Jay.
Rio
Linda News 6/28/01 Editorial: ...Why not a REFERENDUM?...
Rio
Linda News 6/21/01: Letter of the Week from RLECWD Director Robert
Blanchard
Use
a referendum for the Grant Board?
Rio
Linda News 6/14/01: Headline and Editorial
Compilation
of recall facilitator Darrell Nelson's correspondence
Special
election cost: $48,973 to $55,754.50
Recent
Correspondence and assertions
Rio
Linda News 6/7/01: Letter of the week from Northridge WD President
The
errors to which you will certify by signing the petitions
Flyer
Being delivered door-to-door By Jerry Wickham
Copies of the recall notices and the
responses thereto
A review
of the recall issues by Jay O'Brien
A
review of the recall issues by Jerry Wickham
A review
of the recall issues by Mel Griffin
Sample Ballot Statements from all RLECWD
Directors
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