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Recent P.L.A.N. Newsletters P.L.A.N. NEWSLETTER Protect Lake Arrowhead Now June, 2005 Issue Please Pass This Newsletter on to your Friends and Neighbors See our website at: www.Protectlakearrowheadnow.com Protect Lake Arrowhead Now (P.L.A.N.) is a public Benefit Corporation formed by a group of Lake Arrowhead homeowners whose only aim is to preserve the lake's environmental sanctity. Its purpose is to disseminate information regarding issues having to do with the lake, so that everyone can make informed decisions. P.L.A.N. has no membership dues and depends upon the donations of its supporters. Ted Heyck, President Adrian Lee, First Vice President Marlene Alexander, Second Vice President Sherwin Grossman, Treasurer Adele Grossman, Secretary Carl Uhrmann, Director FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT Dear Lake Devotees: In this issue, we will devote our attention to a few of the issues that are most important to our community. PLEASE TAKE NOTE: An election in November will fill three seats on the LACSD Board. The outcome of this election will be crucial to the future of Lake Arrowhead. We intend to support people who will represent the entire community, not just a few special interests. What follows is a brief explanation of several of the more important issues I hope you will take time to investigate on your own. Keeping Lake Arrowhead Pure & Full Lake Arrowhead is not a limitless resource. If we want to keep the lake full, on average, we should take no more than 1500 acre feet of water from the lake each year A growing population has caused us to take an excessive amount of water from the lake -- and as the population grows, the problem will intensify. Over time, taking more than 1500 acre feet each year will cause the lake level to decline. Over drafting, in combination with a prolonged drought, is precisely what caused the lake level to drop to an all-time low last year. We currently take approximately 2800 acre-feet of water from the lake each year, or 1200 more than we should, and as the population grows, the demand will increase. Obviously, we need a supplemental water source. SUPPLEMENTAL WATER The Crestline Lake Arrowhead Water Agency (CLAWA) receives water from the State Water Project, as does the San Bernardino Municipal Water District. LACSD is currently in negotiation with both districts to bring a supplemental supply of water to our area. The cost is exorbitantly high. CLAWA is going to be charging LACSD (that would be us) $2,500 per acre-foot of water. Now is the time for LACSD to pursue becoming a member of CLAWA, which would allow LACSD to buy water for $1,150 an acre-foot -- less than half what is currently being asked. In turn we should organize political support to increase CLAWA's State Water Project annual allotment, which will be necessary to support planned growth on the mountain. CLAWA will charge us a heavy price to join now because our predecessors, when invited to join some years ago, passed up the opportunity. But the price will never be lower. So now is the time to negotiate a membership so that we can buy water at a more reasonable rate in the future. The money being contemplated to install the MBR wastewater system would be better invested in a membership in CLAWA. The Domination of Special Interests Over the last three years, LACSD has spent approximately $1.5 million for four wells, located at the Lake Arrowhead Country Club. The money to drill these wells came from LACSD ratepayers, but the water will be used for golf course grass. And to make matters worse, the Country Club pays only 10% of what the rest of us pay for our water. In addition, the MBR recycled water project now being planned seems directed exclusively for the benefit of the Country Club as well. RECYCLED WATER LACSD plans to build an MBR Wastewater Treatment Plant to provide very highly treated recycled water for irrigation. The plant and equipment was originally estimated to cost us more than $6 million. LACSD will also spend $859,000 of our money to revamp the Country Club's sprinkler system to use recycled water, and an additional $2 million of our money for a million-gallon storage tank, and for water lines to deliver the recycled water to the Country Club. A consulting firm named Tetra Tech was hired for $250,000 to do the preliminary design work. They estimated the cost of the entire project at slightly more than $10 million. Bids to complete the project based on that preliminary design work were requested during May. At the LACSD Board Meeting on June 16th, the LACSD District Engineer, Ryan Gross, presented a bid from a company named CH2M Hill for a system now estimated to cost $13,912,800, almost 28% higher than the Tetra Tech estimate, and rising!! At the June 28th meeting, the LACSD Board will be asked to approve Phase #1 of this massive project by awarding to CH2M Hill the contract to produce the Final Design, at a cost of $1,600,300. When asked about other bids, Mr. Shaw indicated that five were received, three were considered, and "staff" had decided this was the best one. The Board was being asked to rubber stamp that decision based on no information at all. Mr. Heyck apparently was the only Board member disturbed by this. Mr. Heyck observed that if the Board's function is merely to make policy, then the general manager should make the financial decisions and not hide behind a rubber-stamp board. But if the board is supposed to be responsible for approving the payments of money, then the Board needs to see the competitive bids. Otherwise the Board is being asked to rubber stamp decisions made by the general manager, without benefit of supporting documents. Apparently the general manager wants to avoid taking responsibility for outcomes. In reality, the Board was being asked to approve an open-ended project with no final price tag in sight. So, be forewarned, the final cost could be astronomical. Mr. Shaw promised delivery of the competitive bids to board members prior to the next meeting. P.L.A.N. questions the necessity of spending almost $14 million (and growing) of your money to produce recycled water that will be almost pure enough to drink to irrigate the grounds at the Country Club. There are far less expensive methods of producing recycled water of high enough quality to be used for irrigation. INDIRECT POTABLE REUSE WATER It is clear the general manager is taking the first step toward the production of Indirect Potable Reuse (IPR) water. In 2002, the California State Legislature commissioned the Department of Water to form a Recycled Water Task Force, composed of a long list of distinguished scientists, in order to evaluate the state's rules and regulations regarding the use of recycled water. Their report, dated June 2003, found the use of recycled water safe for many purposes, such as farms, parks, golf courses, industrial enterprises, and other applications. However, given the current state of the science, IPR was potentially dangerous to health as a drinking water source. It is clear that Tetra Tech (the LACSD expert, being paid thousands of dollars to research IPR), the general manager, the staff and the Board members have not read the report because they continue to pursue the use of IPR water. It is criminal that the Stakeholders Advisory Group (SAG) has never been informed of this finding and has been urged to approve, at great cost, the pursuit of IPR at the present time. The report concludes that at some time in the future, the use of IPR water for drinking water might be feasible. By that time, any plant constructed now will be outdated. Discharging IPR water into a reservoir such as Lake Arrowhead is inadvisable as there are too many unknowns at this time. Quoting from the report: "Four water quality factors are of particular concern: (1) microbiological quality, (2) total mineral content (e.g., total dissolved solids), (3) presence of toxicants of the heavy metal type, and (4) the concentration of stable organic substances." The report goes on to say there is particular concern regarding the last two categories. "[R]ecent studies in environmental toxicology and pharmacology have revealed potential long-term health risks associated with chemical compounds" such as disinfection byproducts, pharmaceutically active compounds, pesticides and personal care products. "Those trace organic compounds, along with some inorganic compounds such as arsenic and hexavalent chromium found in recycled water are of special concern for human and ecological health risk. "As we expand indirect potable reuse, public concerns increase as well as the uncertainties in our ability to quantify all of the factors." For these reasons, using indirect potable reuse water as drinking water in Lake Arrowhead is not a viable solution at the present time. Does it make sense to spend so much money before even seeking permission to put Indirect Potable Reuse water back into such a pure lake? These are untested, uncharted waters. We may spend a lot of money, and then be told by the State of California they won't permit it. We can produce recycled water for irrigation at a much lower cost. The Need for a NEW RATE STRUCTURE It is time that a fair and equitable water rate structure is put into place. How can anyone justify delivering water to the Lake Arrowhead Country Club for 1/10th of what the rest of us pay? Certain individuals, in past times, created special rates for special people. As a result, a private club for 537 wealthy members is accorded special benefits. The Country Club has even filed two lawsuits to protect their special treatment. In one suit the Country Club was objecting to paying the water district's supplemental assessment fee that the rest of us pay. In that case, the judge ruled against the Country Club. The other suit, in which the Country Club is fighting to retain its highly discounted water rates, remains pending. CONSERVATION All of us who live in Lake Arrowhead must accept that we live in a water-short part of the world. Even importing water is difficult, and is certainly very expensive. The greatest conservation of water can be accomplished by having heavy users switch to the use of recycled water for irrigation. Tiered rates must be applied rationally to stop overuse, but not punish the minimal or average user. If tiered rates are meant to discourage use, then recycled water must be made available to heavy users. Charging very high-tiered rates for lake water will then encourage heavy users to switch to recycled water. THE WASTE OF RATEPAYERS' MONEY The general manager and the LACSD Board hire a constant parade of consultants, survey takers and attorneys to do its work, much of it of questionable worth. For instance, they finally hired an engineer after the position was left empty for a protracted period of time. Then, after they filled the position, the general manager was back asking approval to hire more consultants to "help the engineer." One wonders why they bothered to hire him at all. The fact is they hired him to co-ordinate the work of the consultants! THE NEED FOR TRANSPARENCY TO CHANGE WHAT IS GOING ON, we must find people of integrity to run this fall as candidates for the three open positions on the LACSD Board. These candidates must be willing to represent the interests of all ratepayers, not simply the special interests, and certainly not to rubber stamp the decisions of the general manager. It will be incumbent upon the new board to initiate a complete and independent audit, and not an audit that simply adds up the numbers on the page. Those are the kind of "audits" that have been done in the past. We need an audit that actually looks at the checks and looks at what they are paying for. The ratepayers have a right to know how millions of dollars of their money is being spent. Telling people to look at incomprehensible "financial reports," and expecting them to be satisfied that their money is being wisely spent is not acceptable THE NEED FOR PLANNED GROWTH No responsible builder starts a large construction project without an architectural plan. No host invites guests to a party without making sure there is enough food. Yet we operate this way on a daily basis in Lake Arrowhead. This mountain community can endure growth and thrive on it, if we plan. To provide for anticipated growth, LACSD and the development industry must work together creatively to bring additional water to Lake Arrowhead. Buying water from CLAWA at a very high price is a temporary solution. We must negotiate to become members of CLAWA now to create a permanent solution. If we allow unplanned and unlimited growth to continue at its present pace, we will "kill the goose that laid the golden egg." Let's not wait until it is too late, and we find ourselves looking back at what a nice place Lake Arrowhead USED TO BE. OUR CAMPAIGN GOAL IS $50,000 IF YOU WANT THIS VOICE TO CONTINUE, PLEASE SEND CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR CAMPAIGN 2005 Make checks payable to PLAN PAC ID# 1273119 P.O. BOX 2350 LAKE ARRROWHEAD, CA 92352 This Newsletter is a publication of Protect Lake Arrowhead Now (P.L.A.N.) A Public Benefit Corporation P.O. Box 2350 Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352 E mail: plan@protectlakearrowheadnow.com Website: www.protectlakearrowheadnow.com Stay tuned for next month's episode of YOUR WATER COMPANY AT WORK

P.L.A.N. NEWSLETTER May, 2005 Issue Please Pass This Newsletter on to your Friends and Neighbors Protect Lake Arrowhead Now (P.L.A.N.) is a Public Benefit Corporation, formed by a group of Lake Arrowhead homeowners whose sole aim is to preserve the lake’s environmental sanctity for the enjoyment of all. P.L.A.N. has no financial interest in the lake. Its purpose is to inform the public of the diverse and complex issues surrounding the lake so that everyone can make informed decisions. P.L.A.N. has no membership dues and depends upon the donations of its supporters. PLAN TO ATTEND THE LACSD STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING FOR THE PUBLIC MAY 21ST AT 9:00 AM AT BURNT MILL. STOP THIS UNINFORMED PURSUIT OF IPR. HELP US FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. TAKE YOUR COMMUNITY BACK FROM THE DEVELOPERS. FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT Dear Lake Devotees: This is the age of information technology and the Internet is a wonderful thing. You can, from the comfort of your home, check out everything that I am saying in this issue. Please do that. P.L.A.N. is telling you the truth. If you truly care, take the time to check out what LACSD is telling you. Your local library in Blue Jay now has recordings of LACSD Board Meetings on loan in VHS or DVD format. P.L.A.N.’s General Meeting, held on May 1st at the Resort was attended by a group of people interested in the very real water problems we face here in Lake Arrowhead. It was a pleasure to meet and greet those of you who were there. A number of you volunteered to help us by hosting simple gatherings of friends and neighbors at your homes, or on your decks, at which we can talk about water issues, and the need to elect three new LACSD Board members in the November 2005 elections. We are still looking for good, honest, and informed people to run as candidates in November to fill the vacancies on the LACSD Board. We need educated board members who will take the time to do independent research on water issues, and not just rubber-stamp development-controlled management. Please step forward if you meet this description. With the recent resignation from the LACSD Board of Dr. David Ben Hur, a vacancy is about to be announced by LACSD. The term of the seat he occupied was scheduled to expire in November, and will appear on the November 2005 ballot. Ted Heyck, President Adrian Lee, First Vice President Marlene Alexander, Second Vice President Sherwin Grossman, Treasurer Adele Grossman, Secretary Applications to fill the seat between now and November will soon be requested by LACSD. Anyone interested in running in November would be wise to make application for this temporary appointment. An important question was asked by one of the attendees at the P.L.A.N. meeting regarding the various qualities of recycled water: the difference between recycled water intended for irrigation, as opposed to water intended for drinking, and whether these are good ideas. This is an issue of such immediate and overriding importance, the article that follows addresses the subject in some detail. I urge each of you to attend LACSD's May 21st Strategic Planning Meeting for the Public, and I offer my apologies for being unable to attend to observe as a Board Member. My 70-year-old sister, who has been widowed for 3 years, will be marrying a childhood friend and has asked me to give her away. RECYCLED WATER What is recycled water and is it a good idea? Is it really “Toilet to Tap”? P.L.A.N. applauds LACSD's decision to produce recycled water for irrigation. However, P.L.A.N. seriously questions LACSD's decision to use a costly Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) technology to produce recycled water for irrigation that is twenty times more pure than is required by the State of California. Simply stated, it is overkill to spend 7.5 million dollars to produce irrigation water when a two-million-dollar system might suffice. LACSD should request information of The Department of Health Services (DHS) to determine exactly how highly refined our recycled water would have to be to meet their criteria before approving so costly a system. The MBR system is a deplorable waste of Arrowhead Woods ratepayers' money. P.L.A.N. does not think the LACSD administration is leveling with the public. Although they deny it, their unspoken intent is to purify, to an even higher level, the recycled water produced by MBR technology, in the hope of being allowed to discharge it back into Lake Arrowhead. This method is known as Indirect Potable Reuse (IPR). NO PRELIMINARY STATE APPROVAL As of this press date, State authorities have not been asked by LACSD whether the use of IPR would be permissible. If you think they have ever obtained a written preliminary "ok" from the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, contact Hasam Baqai, the supervising engineer in Victorville by phone (760-241-6583) or email Hbaqai@waterboards.ca.gov and ask him to send you a copy of their preliminary opinion regarding IPR. It is downright irresponsible to spend so much of your money without first receiving permission from the State of California to use IPR water, that is, to use recycled water for drinking water. MOVING VS STANDING WATER Discharging IPR water into a recreational lake for later use as drinking water has never been approved anywhere in the State of California, or in the United States. Nor has it received any level of acceptance on the part of the public. The General Manager cites instances of the present reuse of water. Many cities, such as San Bernardino, Ontario and Chino, to name just three, pump ground water for their domestic consumption. Their wastewater is treated, and then discharged into the Santa Ana River. From there it flows west many miles to Orange County where it is put into settling basins to become ground water again, and then it is pumped up from wells to be reused in Beach Cities. This is moving water, and in its long travel, nature has the opportunity to dilute, cleanse and purify it. To compare that situation with releasing locally treated wastewater into Lake Arrowhead is ludicrous. PHARMACEUTICALS All present recycled water production processes leave trace amounts of pharmaceuticals (medications) in the water. With running streams or rivers, it is hoped that super dilution will eliminate this pollution. But the problem is exacerbated in the case of a lake, which by definition runs nowhere. Do you really think the public in Lake Arrowhead would stand for this? It is not known how much it would cost (beyond the 56 million dollars you have already been assessed) to achieve drinking-quality recycled water. This whole proposal is, in fact, nothing more than a real estate developer proposal to convert the purest, mountain fresh-water lake in the world into a recycled water reservoir in order to accommodate unbridled growth. P.L.A.N. is a staunch advocate of Sustainable Growth: growth that is calculated to maintain the health of the community. But we cannot advocate programs and controversial technologies that will kill the goose that laid the golden egg: a lake now filled with some of the world's purest water. Even LACSD's consultant, Mr. Robinson of Tetra Tech, at the SAG meeting on April 16, 2005, admitted that IPR had been explored elsewhere and was a failed technology rejected. This admission is available on VHS or DVD from P.L.A.N. DVD is easier to mail. An explanation of the different types of recycled water. Recycled water is created from wastewater by removing impurities, salts, and other contaminants. There are four major refinements levels. Primary Treatment: which simply removes large, particulate matter. Secondary Treatment is refinement suitable for ground water disposal. Tertiary Treatment produces recycled water suitable for irrigation purposes: so called Title 22 water. The State of California allows this type of water to be used for irrigation in this area at locations below the level of Lake Silverwood. Lake Arrowhead is at a higher elevation. Title 22 Plus: More refined than Title 22 water, the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board will now approve its use for irrigation, on a case-by-case basis, at elevations above Lake Silverwood. We would be allowed to use it here, and a wastewater treatment plant to produce it would cost 1/3 as much as the Membrane Bio-Reactor System chosen by the LACSD Board and General Manager Title 22 Plus Plus: The Membrane Bio-Reactor (MBR) System approved for installation by the LACSD Board produces water of this quality. This method produces super-refined water -- 20 times purer and three times more costly than Title 22 mandates. Quaternary Treatment; Water treated in this way has the potential for use as drinking water. Recycled water produced by the MBR system, being contemplated for use as irrigation water, can be brought to this level by adding two final steps: reverse osmosis and ozone treatment. Although this level of refinement removes most of the impurities, it does not remove all pharmaceuticals from the water. Therefore, anyone drinking this water must consume minute quantities of birth control pills, blood pressure medications, sleeping pills and an array of thousands of other medications meant to combat diabetes, heart disease, infertility, manic-depressive disorders, insomnia, and so on. Studies have not been done to determine the long-term effects of the consumption of trace amounts of these pharmaceuticals. In the trade, the buzzword, and total misnomer for this super-refined recycled water, is NEWater. The mere use of this word should sound an alarm to the average person. This phrase, like PRE-OWNED CARS, is nothing more than a marketing tool. NEWater is simply highly treated OLDwater, refined, but still containing traces of pharmaceuticals. It has, in the industry terminology, been “polished," .… another industry misnomer. The public needs to take a careful, rational look at this process, and what is being sold to them. There are two primary production methods in this NEWater category. 1) Direct Potable Reuse (DPR), and 2) Indirect Potable Reuse (IPR) LACSD is contemplating using Indirect Potable Reuse. This is a process whereby super-refined wastewater, known in the trade as "NEWater," is discharged into a large body of water, which acts as a buffer zone. The recycled water is thus dispersed and diluted, and ultimately is removed and is treated again before being piped into the water distribution system. In the very few locations in the world, which use Quaternary Treatment drinking water production, none has employed a recreational lake as a reservoir, (buffer zone) which is also used for full body contact sports such as swimming and water skiing. Even Tetra Tech is embarrassed to say it is researching possible use here in Lake Arrowhead of IPR. We have a seven-minute videotape clip, made at the April 16th Stakeholders Agency Group meeting, that proves it. (Ask us for a free copy, specify DVD or VHS (we prefer DVD, as it is cheaper to produce and to mail.) Our concerns are real We are certainly not suggesting that we don't have a problem with an insufficient supply of water. On the contrary, just because we were blessed with a great deal of precipitation this year and our lake is full, it is important to understand that our problems are far from over. Our fluctuating lake levels are not caused by drought alone. Over the years, Lake Arrowhead has endured a regular pattern of drought, interspersed by a year or two of heavy precipitation, and the lake level has gone up and down with each such cycle. But never in the history of the lake has it ever receded 21 feet. It is drought, in combination with the increased draw on the water in the lake to satisfy a growing population that has so dramatically impacted lake levels. If nothing is done to provide supplementary sources of water, and if growth in the population continues at its present rate, the dips during the inevitably re-occurring dry years will become more extreme. The telephone survey commissioned by LACSD in April 2004 indicated that only 8% of property owners indicated they thought LACSD should not worry about the lake level. Unfor-tunately, 50% of the current Board of four, Dennis Whitney and Bruce Field, has apparently adopted this minority, 8% view, in that they have stated that they do not believe that LACSD needs to maintain the lake at or above the 5,100-foot level. SO WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES? CONSERVATION Residents of Lake Arrowhead have to be taught that we live in a water-short area of the world. Therefore, even when the lake is full and the problem is not as obvious as it was when the lake was down 21 feet, it is essential that we continue mandated limits on use of water based on prior use, with penalties imposed for excessive use. The rate structure must be revamped. Rates at the high end of water use must be sufficiently punitive to actually deter usage by gross users, while offering them the option of cheap recycled water. The present rate structure places too great a burden on the little guy and doesn't sufficiently deter the users at the high end. RECYCLED WATER FOR LANDSCAPING The Department of Health Services (DHS) has established statewide recycling water criteria effective December 2, 2000, in Chapter 3, Division 4, Title 22, California Code of Regulations (CCR) Section 60301 et seq. (hereafter referred to as Title 22) for the use of recycled water. However, Lake Arrowhead, and other communities above Lake Silverwood, have been held to a higher standard, set on a case-by-case basis, due to concern about possible contamination of Lake Silverwood. LACSD should investigate whether it can save money by using lower-cost wastewater treatment plants than the proposed MBR plant. LACSD should discuss with the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board exactly how high the quality of the recycled water must be to meet their requirements for irrigation use in Arrowhead Woods. No doubt it must be higher quality than Title 22 water, but probably not nearly as expensive as MBR water. Instead, LACSD has elected to seek approval of the very costly MBR system. It is entirely possible that a much less expensive, and more reliable, system might be approved by the Dept. of Health Services. Apparently this decision was made by the LACSD General Manager and rubber-stamped by the Board because the MBR system can also serve as a prelude to Indirect Potable Reuse, and, coincidentally, doubles the capacity of our sewer system. This increase in capacity will be necessary to accommodate the inevitable incorporation into LACSD's service area of 2000 new homes in Cedar Glen. This is simply a concession to the developers in San Bernardino at the expense of the LACSD ratepayers. The use of a less expensive system has never been properly researched. LACSD currently needs about 2,400 acre-feet of water per year to supply its current customers. Planned use of recycled water for irrigation, and not just for the Country Club, but for all major users on the mountain, could save 1000 to 1500 acre feet of water per year. This process would require the addition of storage tanks and a distribution system of water pipes, but it can be done. LACSD would have to run water lines down the middle of the streets where gross users are located at a cost of $80 per foot, or $422,400 per mile. The users would then tap into the system by running their own piping to their irrigation systems. LACSD needs to figure out how many miles of piping would be involved, which hasn't been done despite numerous requests for the information. A very rough guess puts the estimated cost at approximately $20 million for a permanent solution, rather than spending approximately $28 million to buy very expensive water from CLAWA for ten years. WELLS Another source of water could be wells. We should be able to produce around 1000 acre feet per year of well water if we had about 50 of them. Other communities drill wells for $35,000 to $50,000 each, or a total of $2.5 million for 50 wells. At present LACSD spends half a million dollars per well. This is ridiculous. Better to drill a couple of dry holes than to spend that amount of money checking each well site ad nauseum at endless expense. CRESTLINE LAKE ARROWHEAD WATER AGENCY And finally, in last place, investigate joining CLAWA to secure lower water rates. To sum up: 1) We could use MBR (or something less expensive) to produce 1,000 acre-feet of water per year for irrigation. 2) We could drill enough wells to produce 1,000 acre-feet of drinking water 3) Since according to LACSD figures, our current, annual total draw is 2,400 acre feet of water, we would be left with having to draw only 400 acre feet of lake water per year. This would leave us with excess water since conservative calculations put the sustainable draw from the lake at 1,500 acre-feet of water per year. So, with a little creative thought, there really are alternatives to putting treated wastewater back into Lake Arrowhead. This is why we need to elect new LACSD Board members in November. But these alternative solutions are contingent upon slowing the pace of growth. A WORD OF THANKS The members of P.L.A.N. offer profound thanks to those of you who have so generously responded to our appeal for funds to help us to elect new Board members to LACSD. We shall take care to spend the money you sent very carefully. To those of you who have not yet responded …… we hope you will consider a contribution. We are in for a tough battle between now and the November election. Also, thanks to the long list of good folks who sent emails regarding a desire to have LACSD tape their Board sessions. Your strong interest in what goes on within LACSD is both overwhelming and gratifying. Streaming video for those of you who use computers, and VHS tapes or DVDs for the rest of you to watch, are services we will do our best to provide. This is a public agency and the transparency the public has every right to insist on has been missing from the way they have operated. IF YOU WANT THIS VOICE TO CONTINUE, PLEASE SEND CONTRIBUTIONS Make checks payable to PLAN-PAC Registration #1273119 P.O. BOX 2350 LAKE ARROWHEAD, CALIFORNIA 92352 (OUR CAMPAIGN GOAL IS $50,000) This Newsletter is a publication of Protect Lake Arrowhead Now (P.L.A.N.) A Public Benefit Corporation P.O. Box 2350 Lake Arrowhead, CA 92352 Telephone: 909-336-2191; Fax: 323-856-9921 E-mail: plan@protectlakearrowheadnow.com Website: Protectlakearrowheadnow.com