I just wanted to write to encourage you to continue to criticize
the Santa Clara Valley Water District on the editorial pages.
Dear Editor,
I just wanted to write to encourage you to continue to criticize the Santa Clara Valley Water District on the editorial pages.
Thanks to your recent opinion piece, I wrote to Rosemary Kamei, at the address you listed, to protest the proposed rate hike. Hopefully, by you publicizing the arrogant and clueless audacity of the SCVWD, particularly the lack of oversight by our two “representatives,” Rosemary Kamei and Sig Sanchez, the citizens of South County will protest this rate hike “en masse!”
For too long, the water district and their overpaid administrators have operated this bloated bureaucracy in a bubble. It’s about time we all collectively burst their bubble.
Polly Moreno, Morgan Hill
Editor’s note: If you’d like to send an e-mail to Rosemary Kamei or Sig Sanchez, good luck finding a direct e-mail on the Santa Clara Valley Water District Web site. Instead, the public is invited to send a message to the cl*************@*********er.org. Presumably, your representative actually gets that message.
Who’s out of touch? Take a look in the mirror planning commissioner
Dear Editor,
The recent letter by Arthur C. Barron, Sr., claiming “some of the current Gilroy City Council members are out of touch with the community,” was nothing but a political hack piece against two councilmen.
Barron criticizes a statement against South County Housing’s begging the city for a bailout. The Dispatch web poll had over 80 percent of respondents (a huge margin even for an unscientific poll) agree against said bailout. Seems like Barron is the one “out of touch.”
He then goes on to whine about Gilroy doesn’t have enough “affordable housing,” citing some obscure 20-percent threshold. Gilroy already has the lowest-cost housing in the county and is the dumping ground for subsidized housing; it is clear that Barron is a socialist, seeking more dependency programs to build the welfare vote (to get more of his political peers elected).
Barron then complains about votes against Gardner Health Center locating downtown, but fails to mention that this was to be located upstairs, with retail reserved for street level. His one correct sentence in the entire diatribe is, “I do not understand this.”
There is a lot that Barron fails to understand, and what he does understand, he lies about. He also whines about the employees of the Rickenbacher Group failing to follow parking rules. Asking someone to walk a whole city block (the horror!) is surely out of the question! Gee, Art, maybe we should have all the droves of downtown shoppers park two blocks away so your buddy’s employees can monopolize the parking spaces. That’s the way to attract business! (Who is “out of touch” here?).
He goes on to whine about the new day care center – oh, excuse me, library – not being “green.”It is no secret that Barron and his (socialist) kind are the ones who supported this waste.Why didn’t they put this in the proposal that the voters approved? Why bring it up after the fact?
At the end, Barron goes on to praise Peter Arellano, a cancer on the council and clearly the WORST councilmember we have had since Connie Rogers, and calls for district elections. His excuse for districts as a “reflection of the community” is a blatant lie; he would like to gerrymander the city to get more socialists like Arellano elected.
Barron also complained about having to drive to Los Banos to visit his grandchildren. He should just move there and take his poverty establishment with him. And maybe Peter Arellano will follow him.
Alan Viarengo, Gilroy
Care packing center for overseas troops needs a new Gilroy home
Dear Editor,
We want to express our gratitude and sincere thanks to the Gilroy community for their continued support of Operation Interdependence (www.oidelivers.org).
Our non-profit organization meets weekly to pack goodies and letters of thanks and encouragement to our deployed troops. Each month we ship about 40 boxes from the Gilroy center to brave men and women serving our country overseas. Within each box are treats and letters for 50 armed service members.
This means the hearts and lives of about 2,000 men and women wearing our nation’s uniform are being touched each month by the efforts of our volunteers and community. A special thanks to Mrs. Wolfe’s class at Eliot School for all the wonderful letters that the students have written. Also, thanks to St. Mary’s School for the precious Valentines that were gathered through a schoolwide project.
In addition to thanking all of those who have dropped off letters at our Nob Hill and First Street Coffee drop off locations, a heartfelt thanks to Mark Sanchez for providing us with donated office space for the past four months.
We are again on the move, looking for donated office space to continue our recognition of the troops. If you have any available office space that you are willing to donate or have any contacts that may lead to a new home for us, please contact us as soon as possible.
Karen Humber, 848-2630, and Suzi Kugler, 710-3927, Operation Interdependence
