Frazier Park PUD takes historic vote to annex Lake of the Woods

By Patric Hedlund, TME

Homemade chocolate chip cookies powered volunteers late into the night at the Frazier Park Public Utility District office Thursday, April 28.

Volunteers formed a work party to open over 500 envelopes, log in parcel numbers and count the straw poll votes by hand.

Customers had been asked if they wish to annex Lake of the Woods Mutual Water Company. The ballot asked if Frazier Park should create a regional water supply system and accept (please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Frazier Park water customers Diane Smallwood and Maria Dreier (with manager Jonnie Allison providing support) volunteered to count 500 votes. The ballot asked whether or not to annex Lake of the Woods to create a regional water supply system.

Diane Smallwood holds up the last ballot just after 11 p.m.

Volunteers Diane Smallwood and Maria Dreier launch into setting up a system to count votes with Frazier Park Public Utility District General Manager Jonnie Allison. FPPUD Administrative Assistant Tiffany Matte logs the parcel numbers of the votes, while Civil Engineer Dee Jaspar (sitting) and Self-Help Enterprises Consultant David Warner (standing) look on. Not shown, but in for the marathon, are Terry Kelling and FPPUD board members Rebecca Gipson (who baked the cookies), Gerald Garcia, Lisa Schoenberg, Frank Durso and Brahma Neyman.

Left: Brahma Neyman prepares to adjourn the meeting just before 11:30 p.m. Above: Tiffany Matte finishes tallying the votes and (right) Dee Jaspar tells about new state-ordered groundwater basin management authorities forming.

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