Category: Waste Water Treatment Plant
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What is the City Hiding?
Opinion and Commentary By Donna Westfall – February 25, 2024 Every time the City wants to increase sewer rates we go in and tell them they’ve opened the door to fraud once again. Here’s why: The City will not disclose public information. That’s a huge red flag. The City will not provide a report on…
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Are You Paying For Expansion?
Opinion and Commentary By Donna Westfall – February 5, 2024 By now you’ve probably heard that the City of Crescent City is looking at increasing sewer rates. Just as a reminder, ratepayers pay for operations and maintenance. Developers pay for expansion. Let’s look back to that period when the Wastewater Treatment Plant was being upgraded…
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PAYING FOR SEWER?
Opinion and Commentary By Donna Westfall – January 13, 2024 Don’t want your sewer rates to go up? Do you own your property? Or are you the tenant that pays the water/sewer bill? Learn how to oppose the increase, but don’t do it now. There is a simple solution. It’s called Prop 218. It takes…
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Problems, Problems every where you look
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 15, 2021 – Cartoon Credit to Guy & Rodd. I suppose it shouldn’t be all that surprising that in a small ruralCounty in California that there seems to be problems wherever youlook. A Solid Waste Authority that in itself is a waste. 2. An Airport Commission that…
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New Watch Dog Group: Eye on Del Norte
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 9, 2021 It has recently been established that we now have a new watch dog group in Del Norte County. As 2020 has passed into 2021, and 2020 was aparticularly harsh year for many of Del Norte County’s citizens andtaxpayers, perhaps this new group will unearth how…
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National Freedom of Information Day – Part 1: FOIA
By Donna Westfall – March 16, 2018 – James Madison, Jr., was born on March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia. He was instrumental in the drafting of the United States Constitution and as the key champion and author of the Bill of Rights. Individual rights and freedom of information were of high importance to…
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The Problems With The Sewer Rates or Why You Should Vote No On Measure Q
By Donna Westfall October 8, 2016 – The City of Crescent City has the wisdom of a gnat. No disrespect to gnats of this world. The City approves the upgrade and expansion of the wastewater treatment plant on prime beach front property in a Tsunami zone. Aside from that, they expand the sewer plant not…
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Supreme Court Grants Review
The California Supreme Court granted review of the Appellate court decision in the case “County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors v. Superior Court (ACLU Southern California, Real Party in Interest) S226645, a case that the City of Dixon cited in their refusal to provide the cost of attorney fees paid to the city attorney…
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War Against Dixon’s Citizens
By Guest Columnist, Michael Ceremello, Former Vice Mayor/Councilmember of the City of Dixon. Exactly how many times do you have to be shot before you realize you are in a war? What do you do when your representatives prove to you that they do what they want while ignoring your call for a vote…
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Bid Rigging on the WWTP?
By Donna Westfall – June 29, 2015 CREDIT TO DAVID SCHOLL, Publisher to Dixon’s Independent Voice Before the videos of the Crescent City, City Council meetings were destroyed and during the years of 2008 through 2010, I asked whether or not the bid was rigged referring to the one and only $37 million Wahlund bid…