Shareholders Discussing Crestview Mutual Water Co.
Crestview has no written plan to guide which projects should be approved and in which order and how to pay for them. However, here is Crestview Watch’s understanding of an unofficial and unwritten strategic plan inferred from recent Board decisions and discussions in meetings. Crestview faces a situation in which Continue reading Crestview’s unofficial strategic plan laid out
The Board’s budget discussions make clear that Crestview needs one emergency generator to comply with the new legal requirement for a backup source of water for wells idled by power failure in a wildfire emergency, but compliance will not require a new well. New General Manager Gil Borboa and Superintendent Continue reading Crestview must add one emergency generator; other capital projects being considered. (Repost from December 22.)
The Board’s budget discussions make clear that Crestview needs one emergency generator to comply with the new legal requirement for a backup source of water for wells idled by power failure in a wildfire emergency, but compliance will not require a new well. New General Manager Gil Borboa and Superintendent Continue reading Crestview must add one emergency generator, but discussion continues on other capital spending.
On November 25, the Board adopted an operating expense budget for the fiscal year ending November 30, 2026, but it postponed decisions about budgeting for capital spending, cash reserves building, and rate increases. Staff will provide additional information about capital projects at the next meeting and more financial planning information Continue reading Board adopts operating expense budget, postpones capital budget, and foreshadows substantial rate increase.
Although the Board designated 191 Alviso as the site for Well #7 on July 22, it was not clear whether the Staff recommendation was influenced by an estimate that the LPCC site had a high risk of nitrate contamination, as had been argued by shareholders who favored the 191 Alviso Continue reading Nitrate contamination risk was not a factor in selecting the site for Well #7.
Only 849 shares were represented at the July 29 annual meeting of Shareholders at Spanish Hills Club. This was more than 400 shares short of the 1,249.4 shares needed for a quorum. According to the Bylaws, Shareholders present could have voted to continue the meeting a month or so to Continue reading No quorum at the annual shareholders’ meeting; highlights below.
The Board designated I91 Alviso “as the best location for continued investigation and potential permitting to become replacement Well #7.” The Staff Report estimated the cost would be $8.4 million, excluding an emergency generator and a restart of the treatment plant at Reservoir 3, for which cost estimates are expected Continue reading Board designates 191 Alviso as primary site for Well #7 and learns it will cost more than $8.4 million.
Amid two shocking revelations, the Board is set to select a site for Well #7 at its July 22 meeting. 1. The site recommended in the Staff Report is the same site where a County permit was denied in September 2021. 2. The cost will be over $10 million, revealing Continue reading Well #7 site selection saga to end at July 22 Board meeting.
Crestview invited shareholders within 600 feet of two potential Well #7 sites to meetings on May 28 and 29 to hear and discuss Crestview’s proposal to mitigate the regulatory impact on their septic systems of a new well nearby. Attendees got a presentation from Crestview’s Site Selection Committee and were Continue reading Crestview to indemnify neighbors for any additional septic system costs caused by Well #7.
The Draft Report by Cannon Engineering analyzing alternative sites for Well #7 exceeds 100 pages and is expected to go to the Board about June 3. Cannon experts will attend the June 19 special Board meeting to answer Directors’ questions in executive session. Prior to that, the Draft Report will Continue reading Cannon Report on Well #7 may be kept from Shareholders before Board selects site on June 24.