…ADMITS $600,000 BOONDOGGLE VOTE A MISTAKE
The Lakeland Village-Wildomar Project Area Committee (hereinafter “RDA PAC”), in their August meeting, voted to generously waste 600,000 of Wildomar’s tax dollars. This past week, the same RDA PAC voted to rescind their vote.
At the first meeting, EVMWD Director John Lloyd presented a request to the RDA PAC Board of Geniuses (hereinafter “Geniuses”), asking for $600,000 to complete a project that was already fully funded by the EVMWD. When the Geniuses voted to approve the request, the EVMWD then dropped it’s bombshell on the Geniuses, letting them know that Wildomar’s money was not needed.
Alas, the Geniuses and Lloyd are each left with a large egg (appears to be “sunny side up”) on their faces.
Suddenly aware of how inept they looked, the RDA PAC rescinded their prior vote this last week, restoring $600,000 to the taxpayer’s coffers but, sadly, they left any taxpayer respect and confidence in their decision-making abilities in the dust.
According to a recent Californian article, one Genius even stated, in defense of all of the other Geniuses, that “the committee board asked all of the right questions during the previous meeting.“
He said they asked why the district needed the money, why it was important to the project and how the project would be built.
Anyone who doubts that can read the minutes of the meeting to see for themselves, he added.
“We did our job,” he said.
Wildomar Magazine would agree with the unnamed Genius (only to be kind) but only if their job is to spend $600,000 without performing the appropriate ”due diligence.” Just one Genius could have thought to ask one simple question; does EVMWD need the money? Then, another Genius could have been tasked to make one simple phone call to the EVMWD General Manager to confirm that the cash-bloated EVMWD really needed the money.
Okay, assume for arguments’ sake, the RDA PAC did ask the right questions, then the answers they received were wrong.
If the answers were incorrect, there are only two options. They were incorrect either as a result of the ignorance of John Lloyd or a result of an intentional act by John Lloyd. So, let’s give the Geniuses a brief pass, assume they were duped and turn our attention to Lloyd.
John Lloyd is a Director of the EVMWD. If he doesn’t know by now how the funding for EVMWD projects work, he is not qualified to represent Wildomar on that Board and he should not be asking taxpayers for large amounts of money. If he is ignorant of how the District works, he needs to admit it, stop acting like he does and go educate himself.
If Lloyd knows how the funding mechanisms at the EVMWD operate but still asked for the unneeded $600,000 from the RDA PAC anyway, he is duplicitious, for some unknown reason, and needs to answer for his deception.
In any event, should John Lloyd ever dare ask for money from the RDA PAC in the future, the Geniuses must ignore him. Lloyd laid his credibility on the line for $600,000 and rolled a 7.
This is, admittedly, tough criticism for most readers of Wildomar Magazine. But the potential loss and wastage of $600,000 cannot be ignored. Someone has to apply some critical thinking skills to stop this kind of financial folly.
Who has the right to question the RDA PAC?
Who has the right to question John Lloyd about his activities in leading the Geniuses astray?
Who but an Idiot?
Zak is not taking any comments at this time. However, you can join Zak and John at D’Canters for a post-Council Meeting drink some Wednesday evening. We both had such a good time the last time.
