…HAS SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR SOME
Despite taking an “it’s no big thing” attitude, the Wildomar/Lakeland Village Redevelopment Agency’s (“RDA PAC”) vote to “cough up” and then ”choke down” on a $600,000 contribution for “mythical” water hydrants to fight fires in Lakeland Village’s piece of the Cleveland National Forest, it is probably a big thing to the employees of the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District (“EVMWD”) who may be dismissed from their jobs over this debacle. According to sources to Wildomar Magazine, at least one employee of the EVMWD has been fired from a water district job over the embarrassing matter, perhaps with more to come.
Zak has always believed that there is more, much more, to the story of how such a large amount of taxpayer money was being set up for an alleged transfer to some “slush fund” for the benefit of someone other than Lakeland Village’s hapless homeowners. Now it appears that time will unravel and reveal the truth as time usually does.
Wildomar Magazine calls upon the Wildomar City Council to be prepared to address this lack of City Council oversight of this “runaway” money train, once the “white paper” being prepared by the City Attorney is completed and a report to the City Council on the RDA PAC is issued. The Wildomar City Council should then negotiate a “joint powers agreement” (“JPA”) with Riverside County in order to have an equal say in how the vast sums of taxpayer’s money languishing in the RDA PAC’s bank account are allocated.
Zak, by the way, doesn’t need a white paper to know that something is already wrong with the current arrangement. But Zak is probably a political savant.
You may have thought Zak was being a bit tough on local “volunteers” with his criticism of Kami’s ongoing “offer” to build a community center in Wildomar. No one citizen should have that kind of access to taxpayer money to even think to make such a weird and repeated offer.
However, now that real jobs are being taken from real people for their possible participation in the $600,000 debacle, the Wildomar City Council must take real steps to end this hustle.
It’s time for the City Council to go on record for an immediate moratorium on the allocating and voting on the spending of any more RDA PAC money until an agreement is reached with Riverside County. City Council oversight won’t necessarily prevent future $600,000 debacles but, at the very least, it won’t be money spent/wasted from downtown Riverside.
Comments may be made to zakturango@excite.com.
