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WATER BOARD - CITY OF BAKERSFIELD
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1981
4:00 P.M.
Call meeting to order
Roll Call - Board Members: Barton, Chairman; Payne, Ratty, Kelmar,
Oberholzer
1. Approve minutes of regular meeting of December 2, 1981.
2. Scheduled Public statements
3. Correspondence
Letter to Kern County Water Agency regarding Improvement District
No. 4 re-organization. FOR BOARD ACTION.
5. Staff Comments.
6. Board Comments.
7. Adjournment.
MINUTES
WATER BOARD - CITY OF BAKERSFIELD
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1981
4:00 P.M.
The meeting was called to order by Vice-Chairman Payne in the
Department of Water Conference Room.
The secretary called the roll as follows:
Present: Payne, Ratty, Kelmar
Absent: Barton, Oberholzer
The minutes from the meeting of October 14, 1981, were approved
as presented.
A'request to purchase larger water storage facilities for Tracts
4188 and 4190 located adjacent to Stockdale Highway, 1/4 mile
west of Allen Road was presented to the board for consideration.
Dale Hawley, Public Works Director at this time gave a map
illustration of the area involved. The staff recommends the
use of up to $14,000 for the purpose of the additional water
storage capacity. Mr. Kelmar made a motion that the board
authorize the expenditure of funds to obtain the additiQnal
storage capacity. The motion was passed.
There being no further business to come before the board, Vice-
Chairman Payne adjourned the meeting at 4:07 P.M.
James J. Barton, Chairman
City of Bakersfield Water Board
Linda Hostmyer, Secretary
City of Bakersfield Water Board
Mr. Robert McCarthy
President
Kern County Water Agency
4114 Arrow Street
Post Office Box 58
Bakersfield, California 93302
Re: Improvement District No. 4 Reorganization
Dear Mr. McCarthy:
During the past 2% years we have been discussing a possible
reorganization of Improvement District No. 4 directed toward
the creation of an autonomous entity with its own board of
directors.
The result of the initial discussion was that our special
counsel, Stanley C. Hatch, worked with Judge Roy Gargano,
your counsel, to determine the various methods by which this
might be done. The result of these discussions was some
proposed legislation which was designed to protect the
existing rights and powers of Improvement District No. 4 by
minimizing the organizational changes and creating a new
board to manage the existing District. We had the impression
.this approach would be acceptable to your Board. We are now
told, informally, that this is not the case and that instead
you apparently favor a greater form of autonomy by the
creation of a separate entity over which your Board has no
supervisory duties.
It is the Water Board's feeling that definite action should
be taken. However, to avoid costly delays and wasted effort
we need some authoritative indication of the direction in
which we should proceed. Consequently, we would request that
your Board take formal action to indicate to our Board
whether you favor:
1. Legislation which would create an independent Board
of Trustees for the existing Improvement District No. 4, as
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December 9, 1981
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proposed in the documentation previously provided to Judge
Gargano by Mr. Hatch; or
2. Total separation of Improvement District No. 4 from
the Kern County Water Agency by the legislative formation of
a new and separate district to which the assets of
Improvement District No. 4 and the powers and obligations of
that District would be transferred. This alternative would
also involve the execution of a member unit contract similar
to those used for other member units to create an on-going
relationship between the Agency and the new district, or
3. Some other method of reorganization.
This matter has been pending since at least June 1979 when
your Agency initially responded favorably to a recommendation
by the Water District's Advisory Committee that this action
be taken. Because the 1982 Legislative session is almost
upon us, we would like to have some direction from you so
that appropriate legislation can be timely introduced to
achieve this objective.
We would appreciate your earliest response.
Very truly yours,
James J. Barton
Chairman
City of Bakersfield Water Board