Get out the VOTE: Flush the Board
Nov. 8 is Election Day
As we know, FOUR of the five seats on the Los Olivos CSD board of directors are OPEN!
We can use VOTING POWER to protect historic Los Olivos from the expansive, expensive, and destructive project the current board members have been pursuing for the last year and a half.
If you do not have a vote because you live just the other side of the Los Olivos CSD’s boundary — but you are concerned about the lack of transparency and the effects the CSD’s decision making is going to have on our Valley, our way of life, and our children’s future — help your neighbors in Los Olivos become better-informed voters!
Below are some things you can show friends and neighbors who insist either (a) the plan has not changed or (b) there is no plan yet because the Board is studying all the options.
For example, Lisa Palmer was talking about putting a single, large plan before the voters in this video from July 2021, and that is the only plan the CSD board has spent even a penny on since then.
Here are some potentially thought provoking questions you can pose to get people thinking about what the current CSD board members have been up to:
If the current CSD board has not yet decided on a project, what in the world were they trying to find a site for when Brad Ross volunteered to manipulate the site selection criteria in this video back in July 2021? (Could it have been, in part, because the CSD’s lawyer planned to use the “rejiggered” results to evade protections the County has put in place for agricultural land and green space in our Valley?)
How much time and/or money has the LOCSD Board spent in the last, say, 12 months on anything that remotely resembles the project described in the Project Description adopted three years ago by unanimous Resolution 19-04? [HINT: It appears to begin with “ze-” and end with “-ro.”]
If the project has not changed (as it appears it likely did in the weeks and months prior to their July 2021 meeting), why did the current Board members cease all planning for the county parcel they'd long been planning to use (see below) and start dreaming, instead, of a very super-sized sewage plant like the one in this video?
Whatever you do, please encourage your friends and neighbors to ELECT CANDIDATES WHO WILL GET US BACK ON TRACK with the Plan already endorsed by the Regional Water Board, County Environmental Health Services, Supervisor Hartmann, the Santa Ynez CSD, the City of Solvang, and the majority of residents.
