Occidental Community Services District

Regular Board Meeting

September 21, 2010

The meeting was called to order at 7:05 without Director Gerner (she announced last month that she was planning on leaving the Board and suggested Jeff Twedell as a suitable replacement). Directors present were Chris Martin and Johnny Gonnella, along with President Ron Lunardi and Secretary Missy Freeman. Also present were a simply unprecedented number of members of the general public. They got right into it as the meeting opened with their comments.

Welcome!

…and thanks for visiting the newest addition to the news! I looked around recently and discovered that no one was covering the important local meetings in and around the West County, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. As the saying goes, if you don't like the news, go out and make some yourself!

And that's just what we are going to do. Not make news as in be our own headline or create stories ad nihilo, but rather make the news available to the people that it will impact directly. Matters decided by our local officials can raise our taxes, change the quality of our water, increase traffic and decrease services. Make sure you know what those decisions are and how they affect you.

You can check out calendar for the times and places of the meetings we will cover. And if you don't like the news I'm making, come out and make some of it yourself!

Peace,

Jeremy