LAZAR'S LETTER STOKES COUNCIL FEUD OVER WATER PLANT PROPOSAL.Byline: Gloria Gonzales Daily News Staff Writer The rift between members of the City Council widened this week when Mayor Judy Lazar sent the third missive in an ongoing battle between two council factions. ``It is critical that the council receive factual information,'' Lazar wrote in a seven-page letter addressed to the council. ``Based on the context of the letter, Councilwoman (Elois) Zeanah is either totally unfamiliar with past Council actions, State law, and associated financial issues, or is deliberately misrepresenting the facts and misleading the public.'' Lazar's first letter went to the State Water Resources Control board Dec. 30, blaming Zeanah in part for the city's failure to meet a state deadline for plans for the Hill Canyon Waste Water Treatment Plant. Zeanah responded with a letter accusing Lazar of ``significant omissions and misrepresentations.'' Lazar's Tuesday letter levels similar charges at Zeanah and goes on to detail alleged inaccuracies in Zeanah's letter to the state board. In the dueling The fighting of two persons, one against the other, at an appointed time and place, due to an earlier quarrel. If death results, the crime is murder. It differs from an affray in this, that the latter occurs on a sudden quarrel, while the former is always the result of design. letters, Lazar and Zeanah each describe their position on the $75 million upgrade. The mayor backs the $75 million plan, while Zeanah has called it an expensive, ``Gold-plated Cadillac Cadillac expensive automobile and status symbol. [Trademarks: Crowley Trade, 83] See : Luxury of a plant.'' On Dec. 16, Zeanah and Councilwoman Linda Parks For the DC Comics character, see . Linda Park (born July 9, 1978) is a Korean American actress who is best known for her portrayal of communications officer character Hoshi Sato in the television series . voted against a $2.50 per month sewer SEWER. Properly a trench artificially made for the purpose of carrying water into the sea, river, or some other place of reception. Public sewers are, in general, made at the public expense. Crabb, R. P. Sec. 113. rate hike that would have made the $75 million plan viable. State law mandates that such rate hikes pass with a 4-1 vote. A yes vote would have allowed the city to meet the state deadline for filing an upgrade plan. Zeanah said in her letter that the council could have informed the board that digesters and canyon lines had been replaced as a way of ``showing movement to correct serious health and safety issues.'' Lazar countered that the board requested the city to adopt a complete financial plan that met state and federal legal requirements for cities that had accepted federal grant money. Lazar also wrote that canyon lines had not been replaced. Zeanah maintained Thursday that the state would have been mollified by a working plan. Zeanah wrote that a contract had been made to increase the plant's capacity. Lazar wrote that when digesters were replaced, only that part of the plant increased its capacity. Zeanah wrote that the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and would allow the city to delay adding an additional treatment level pending a study that might eliminate the requirement. Lazar countered that though the delay was granted, the additional level would be required by 2002. Zeanah also wrote that the Price Waterhouse audit showed that the proposed funding placed a greater burden on current users and suggests that the city investigate more cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. alternatives. Lazar wrote that the audit showed no inequity between current and future users, who will pay for the upgrade through monthly rates or higher connection fees attached to new home prices. In Tuesday's letter, Lazar also detailed the costs of delaying the filing and slowing work on the upgrade. First, she wrote, health, safety and the environment could be affected. Second, regulatory agencies regulatory agency Independent government commission charged by the legislature with setting and enforcing standards for specific industries in the private sector. The concept was invented by the U.S. could bring sanctions Sanctions is the plural of sanction. Depending on context, a sanction can be either a punishment or a permission. The word is a contronym. Sanctions involving countries: The condition in which the risk of default on a debt obligation by that entity is deemed low. Creditworthiness Eligibility of an individual or firm to borrow money. of the city. Zeanah said Thursday that by sending the first letter to the state Water Resources Board, the mayor had invited the strictest state sanctions possible. ``They are trying to use the threat of sanctions to force a rate hike and aid my recall through this letter,'' Zeanah said. |
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