Friday, March 4, 2011
DSWSC Board officially disavows Harris letter
In a special board meeting held Wednesday night, March 2, the Dripping Springs Water Supply Corporation board of directors promptly passed two motions in open session following one and a half hours of discussion in executive session closed to the public.
With a 4 to 1 vote the board instructed Corporation Secretary Gilbert Wolf to notify DSWSC members that the board of directors had reviewed the Harris letter dated January 2011 and mailed to Corporation members on or about February 15, 2011, and that the board disavowed in its entirety the opinions, claims and allegations expressed by Harris in his letter. (See Harris' letter here.)
Harris voted nay.
In a second motion approved by a majority vote, the board directed Harris to reimburse the Corporation approximately $750.00 in printing and mailing costs for his unauthorized letter. Again, Harris voted nay.
The official letter disavowing the contents of Harris’ letter was expected to be signed by DSWSC Secretary, Gilbert Wolf, and was to be mailed to members on Wednesday.
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How ironic! As I sit in my home with very low water pressure I read about the problems at the wsc . I have no interest in join in the fight between Mr.Cones and Mr Harris. But the fact is I have had very low to almost no water since 4:00 this afternoon. As a city council member We approached the wsc over a year ago to join the city in a notification process (code red). We have utilized this several times to help make our residents aware of unexpected problems in the city. Had the wsc elected to do this our residents on the south side of town could have been made aware of this situation very quickly. Instead we are having to pay overtime for our wsc employees to call individual homes that may be affected by this problem. Would everyone please urge the powers of the wsc to please join the city in this very important issue. I have no way to know if the water is safe for my grandson to drink. With this system the wsc could notify everyone within minutes of the problem.
I love Hays County. It's the sort of place where all sorts of folks wander into office without any idea as to what is proper or improper behavior. Harris clearly doesn't have a clue about what's required of a person in his position, but that shouldn't shock us. Remember: This is Hays County where the motto is ---- Law? What's that got to do with anything?
Harris is just one more in a long line of bubbas who've been elected to some position and who think it's sort of like being an officer in the Lions Club or Knights of Columbus (no disrespect toward either organization intended).
Perhaps we'll get lucky and he'll be voted out of office next week.
Here's a good idea. Let's take Mr. Harris over to Mr. Fould's home. Fould has him sit in the bathtub with his head facing the faucet. Turn on the cold water as high as it will go, which due to the lack of water pressure will simply be a drip....drip....drip. When I was a kid we called this the Chinese Water Torture.
Welcome to OUR nightmare, Harris. The best part about you leaving will be never having to see your head photographed again.
TO BILL FOULDS,
The water pressure problem was caused by a bobcat operator who drilled into the water line.
At the last meeting, Mr Harris brought up the Code red sistem, and the members thought it would be a good idea for the out of city water customers to pay for their share of the cost since the in city members are already covered by code red.
I am not sure why Mr Harris did not make a motion to do that.
Anon #4-
how are the in city residents covered by code red in the event of a water emergency? The wsc does not participate at any level - in city or out. That's Mr. Foulds' point. If the wsc was working with the city for the best of their customers the code red system could have used to notify the affected parties within minutes rather than hours to call every phone number manually at great expense, not to mention inefficiency, to the rate payers.
what happened
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