I'm leaving laptop behind. Check back at end of month; hopefully there will be more news re lawsuit. In the meantime check out fortunacitizen. I've been working to make it more 'user-friendly.' The lawsuit, remember, was to aid my work looking into the possibility of using Vancil reservoir instead of building a new one nearby. Most of my work is there, organized/linked by the questions I was asking as I went along. Take a look, let me know what you think.
Interesting editorial in this morning's Time Standard. I couldn't find it online, perhaps because it came from another paper, Sacramento Bee, I think. Was of interest to me because of the citizen participation angle. In this case it was a citizen who was on the board. ta ta for now
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
California Sunshine Laws protect our right to information about our government
Vancil reservoir -- 5 million gallons
Coast rock cress or Arabis blepharophylla
Header photo credit
j3pd2k some rights reserved
This is a companion site to
contact
fortuna.sunshine@yahoo.com
California Sunshine Laws protect our right to information about our government
Wish to add an issue for discussion?
Guest posts welcome. Send to fortuna.sunshine@yahoo.com.
Please use "Fortuna Exchange" as subject of email.
Please use "Fortuna Exchange" as subject of email.
Topics
- change in Fortuna (12)
- citizen participation (12)
- lawsuit (9)
- solar (4)
- Stewart Street (3)
- tank in the park (3)
- use Vancil (8)
- water rates (2)
City Council contact information
Doug Strehl -- 725-5293 (Source: phone book)
Ken Zanzi -- 726-7934 (Source: phone book)
Dean Glaser: 725-3880 (Source: phone book)
Mike Losey -- 725-2574-- PO Box 159, Fortuna -- Email: mlosey@suddenlink.net (Source: Losey4citycouncil.com)
Sue Long: 725-5641 (Source: Sue-Long-Fortuna-City-Council)
Mailing Address for all: c/o City Hall, 621 11th Street, Fortuna, CA 95540
email via City Website ---please note that there may be a delay as system requires City Clerk to forward messages
Estimated cost: $4,500,000
New tank or use Vancil Reservoir?
--The 5 million gallon Vancil reservoir has 4 million gallons of unused storage. It is up the street from the proposed tank. In Fortuna’s southeast there is an identified need for storage, but no proposed projects.
--The proposed 2 million gallon tank was sized only to meet current demand. With 4 million gallons of unused storage, Vancil will easily meet current and future growth needs in the north part of town.
--Built before the 1964 Christmas flood, Vancil was part of a water development program for a growing city with 5 wood products manufacturing plants. There is no evidence that it was ever intended as emergency storage.
--The City requested and was told there are no regulatory obstacles to using Vancil.
--The Water Bonds are not a legal obstacle to using Vancil, Fortuna is not required to build the proposed tank. The City Council can and has changed the 2006 bond funded projects
--We were told the water rate increase was to borrow money (sell bonds) that would fund "urgent projects" required to fulfill the City's "current operational responsibilities."
--A pipeline between Vancil and downtown will make 4 million gallons available, providing the 1 million gallons of fire reserve storage recommended for down town. The proposed tank has only 1/2 million gallons for fire reserve storage.
--Using Vancil will make bond funds available for other necessary projects, allowing us to avoid an unnecessary rate increase.
--We can safely and reliably use Vancil for 50 years and spend less than the cost of the proposed tank, plus interest.
--The 50-year estimate was based on the January 2009 Staff Report’s estimate of $10,000/year energy cost. Three months earlier, in September 2008, the City requested and received information that the actual cost would be half that, $5,000/year. Based on this, we could expect using Vancil would be significantly less than the proposed tank.
I still do not know the motivation for the tank, but I suspect and hope that this is a simple case of good intentions and faulty assumptions resulting in a misguided project.
Vancil reservoir -- 5 million gallons
City Council contact information
Doug Strehl -- 725-5293 (Source: phone book)
Ken Zanzi -- 726-7934 (Source: phone book)
Dean Glaser: 725-3880 (Source: phone book)
Mike Losey -- 725-2574-- PO Box 159, Fortuna -- Email: mlosey@suddenlink.net (Source: Losey4citycouncil.com)
Sue Long: 725-5641 (Source: Sue-Long-Fortuna-City-Council)
Mailing Address for all: c/o City Hall, 621 11th Street, Fortuna, CA 95540
email via City Website ---please note that there may be a delay as system requires City Clerk to forward messages
Coast rock cress or Arabis blepharophylla
City Council contact informantion
Doug Strehl -- 725-5293 (Source: phone book)
Ken Zanzi -- 726-7934 (Source: phone book)
Dean Glaser: 725-3880 (Source: phone book)
Mike Losey -- 725-2574-- PO Box 159, Fortuna -- Email: mlosey@suddenlink.net (Source: Losey4citycouncil.com)
Sue Long: 725-5641 (Source: Sue-Long-Fortuna-City-Council)
Mailing Address for all: c/o City Hall, 621 11th Street, Fortuna, CA 95540
No comments:
Post a Comment