By Patric Hedlund, TME
Bernadette Sava looked happy and upbeat, dressed in jolly red, blue eyes dancing as if going to a Christmas party, when she showed up at the Frazier Park Library on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 11 a.m. She carried a white box that could have been holding a lovely present from an expensive department store. But Ms. Sava’s box carried 1,300 Proposition 218 protest forms for residents of Frazier Park to sign. She says she wants the Frazier Park Public Utility District (FPPUD) to stop raising water rates.
She will need 51% of FPPUD’s customers to sign her forms if she hopes to stop the rate increase that will begin…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)
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‘How long would it take to grow that much hemp?’ FPPUD General Manager Jonnie Allison asked Bernadette Sava. ‘Have you seen our pipes?’ Neighbor Elke Heitmeyer looks on and takes notes.
Left: Bernadette Sava helps Fred Estrada make out the protest form while Tommy Hastings (right) points back to (Kern County’s) Frazier Mountain Park Pond, which he feels the water company should try to restore. Jim Kane and others asked why the water company has new trucks.
Mark Denham (above) said the base price is too high. (Above, right) Tyler Kramer, Carla Hunter and Virginia Sapien said living on a fixed income with health problems leaves them worried about costs.
Fred Estrada (left): ‘I want to protest ‘cause there are problems with the water district. I oppose annexing with Lake of the Woods. I’m worried about running out of water.’
Left: Tommy Hastings said he is still sore about the pond going dry in Frazier Mountain Park. He said his protest form is a way of telling the water company he thinks they are to blame for the dry pond.
Sharon Vergini said she probably needs to have more information.
FPPUD Directors Lisa Schoenberg (who has been on the board 14 years) and Brahma Neyman were both baffled by Bernadette Sava’s ‘hemp solution’ to the district’s maintenance expenses.
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