Chance to Do Something About Rising Water Rates

Dear Editor, Are you concerned about your high water rates? If
you receive your water from a private well or from one of the two
water companies in San Martin, or from the City of Morgan Hill or
Gilroy, the costs for this water is controlled by the Santa Clara
Valley Water District.
Chance to Do Something About Rising Water Rates

Dear Editor,

Are you concerned about your high water rates?

If you receive your water from a private well or from one of the two water companies in San Martin, or from the City of Morgan Hill or Gilroy, the costs for this water is controlled by the Santa Clara Valley Water District.

Each year the Santa Clara Valley Water District has been raising your water rates far in excess of what it cost them to purchase it. The City of Morgan Hill, the City of Gilroy and the two water companies in San Martin will just pass through any water rate increases to you.

If you are concerned enough about these out-of-sight water rates that the Santa Clara Valley Water District has been charging all of us for so many years, then I encourage you to attend the annual April 16, 7pm SCVWD meeting that will be head at the Morgan Hill Cultural Center.

Robert J. Cerruti, San Martin

Outrageous to Call Life Flight, Then Release Soon After

Dear Editor,

I am bewildered by an aspect of the recent vehicle versus pedestrian incident, mainly the Dispatch reporting outrageous decisions by our local emergency medical service providers. The bewilderment is also mystifying as to what type of medical triage was rendered, that would forward a superficially injured child, via $25,000 life flight to a regional trauma center, only to be released just hours later to the care of his parents.

I question whether the triage was truly medically driven, rather was it financial triage by the facilities executive administration, due to the fact the child was void of medical insurance?

Hopefully, one will read in the Dispatch what medical conditions prompted and justified the expensive medical evacuation. I’m sure the emergency facility will resist revealing any aspects of their decision making, by hiding under the cloak of confidentially. Optimistically, the confidentially pretense can be circumvented by his parents officially waiving medical confidentially guarantees.

Do others in this community concur with me, in seeking real answers, as to what prompted a expensive life flight evacuation?

Chuck Wear, Gilroy

Mind-Numbing Group a VTA Lapdog, Not a ‘Watchdog Committee’

Dear Editor,

The “watchdog” committee for the Valley Transportation Authority has assured the voters in our county that things were A-OK at VTA, that we should vote to tax ourselves more so that VTA could continue its “successful” operations, and that so long as you were acting to protect taxpayers’ interests, then we had nothing to worry about. Your full-page ad in our town newspaper, together with your chairman’s letters to the editor, said with VTA there’s no worries – be happy.

Now we learn that during your watch, VTA has been found to be the worst transit agency in the USA according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology study of all the nation’s transit agencies. We have seen our Santa Clara County Grand Jury indict VTA for gross mismanagement and governance flaws and fiscal abuse of taxpayers. Last year their pro-tax and spend supporters heavily advertised in favor of the Measure A sales tax (“just a little one” on top of lots and lots of other little ones).

This year VTA’s auditors have revealed mind-boggling abuse, wastefulness and arrogance. Having thumbed their noses at our grand jury, how can we expect them to do anything else to their own auditors?

Well, I for one am not happy. And I’m particularly unhappy with your phony vigilance. I think that you’ve deceived the public. I think that you’ve been negligent, or grossly so.

So, why should the voters believe your claims that we’re in good hands, and that our hard-earned tax dollars are being spent wisely? If you were really a watchdog, and not a lapdog for VTA, then perhaps your existence would be justified. As things have been revealed, I urge you to disband your useless watchdog committee activities. It’s time for us to get busy and recall some of our “successful” VTA leadership.

Joe Thompson, Gilroy

God Gave Us the Seeds for Marijuana, So It Must be a Good Thing

Dear Editor,

Medical use of the God-given plant cannabis (marijuana), IS inherently good.

I’m responding to “Medical Marijuana Use in Morgan Hill – Let’s Be Reasonable, published March 20.

Since Christ God Our Father indicates He created all the seed-bearing plants, saying they are all good, on literally the very first page of the Bible (see Genesis 1:11-12 and 29-30), that makes those who support and enable the Luciferous practice of caging sick humans for using cannabis evil.

Stan White, Dillon, CO