The customers of Sweetwater Authority are facing future increases in water rates. Four members, Jose Preciado, Jess Van Deventer, Steve Castaneda and Jose Cerda voted to provide health care for the board of directors. Josie Calderon-Scott, Ron Morrison and Teresa “Terry” Thomas opposed the resolution. This is a rip-off of ratepayers’ dollars, a betrayal of public trust, and too much self-interest instead of interest where it ought to be,
The director’s first obligation is to be responsible to the needs of the current ratepayers they serve. How do they justify this?
Certain key current members of the federal government are setting the tone. Using the public good for private gain some public officials think it is their right to rip-off the future ratepayers to make themselves better off. Corruption has become systematic and institutionalized.
Jerry Thomas resides in Chula Vista.
