LAKE CASITAS : Water Users to Vote on Financing Plant
Casitas Municipal Water District will allow its customers to vote later this year on how the district will pay for a water-treatment facility that must be completed by 1995, officials said.
The $30-million treatment facility was mandated after state inspectors found that Lake Casitas no longer met the state’s rigid water quality standards, said Casitas General Manager John Johnson.
Johnson told board members Wednesday night that the key issue is if the facility will be funded by a taxpayer-approved bond measure or increases in water rates.
“The general obligation bonds still seem to be the best alternative, but the biggest concern we have is that it needs a two-thirds vote of approval by the people,” Johnson said.
District officials were instructed Wednesday to analyze rate-increase alternatives and to make recommendations, Johnson said.
Hearings on the issue will be held later this year, Johnson said.
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