Closed Water Agency Meeting Violates the Brown Act
There has been an unsettling trend among water agencies to conduct more and more of the people’s business in closed session under the guise of...
MWDOC GM Nixes Secret Poseidon Desal Talks after Brown Act Complaints
In that case, Cook told the Voice by e-mail, “To meet in closed session under the ‘Real Property’ exemption to the Brown Act is patently...
Public Officials are Obligated to be Transparent
Last week I sent a complaint to the California Fair Political Practices Commission asking it to investigate what I believe are serious violations of the...
FPPC Complaint Filed Over MET President’s Income Reports
A Huntington Beach activist has filed a complaint with the Fair Political Practices Commission against the chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California...
MWDOC Director Proposes Self-Policing after MET Chairman’s Failure to Disclose Income
This article was first posted February 26, 2012 By John Earl Surf City Voice Following recent revelations by the Surf City Voice that one of...
MWD Chairman’s $15,000 Oversight
But, once again, Foley’s interpretation of the law is mistaken. All income must be reported for the previous year – there is no threshold. That...
MET Chairman Still Believes He Didn’t Have to Report Wife’s Income
The chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), John V. Foley, says that a recent Surf City Voice story that exposed the...
Revered Water Director Didn’t Disclose Wife’s Income
Since 2001, public records obtained by the Voice indicate, Foley’s wife has run her own business, MJF Consulting, Inc., while being paid directly or indirectly...
Swan Song for OC Desal?
An Irvine Water official recently let members of the MWDOC board know that their public relations efforts on behalf of ocean desalination aren’t necessarily welcomed...
California’s Ocean Desal Future in Doubt
Critics say that desal industry’s dream of sprinkling the coast with desalination plants is dead in the water....