Water Districts are governmental agencies that are notorious for not getting a lot of scrutiny from the public. Dare say most people don't even know they exist let alone what they do.
In the past week, WRD has been exposed for two troubling situations -- spending over $5 million dollars suing local cities and today a story about one of its past board members (who I trounced in the election) alleging sexual harassment by another board member while on a junket to Washington, DC.
Oh, and let's not forget there was some alleged hanky panky by yet another board member last year or that apparently some WRD electeds were involved in funding a campaign to defeat Signal Hill Councilmembers who dared refused to pay up when WRD assessed the city.
What galls me about charges of sexual harassment between and by elected officials is that anyone elected or appointed to a commission in California must take mandatory training on how to prevent it. So did these two ever go to the training? And how much is it going to cost WRD...I mean the taxpayers to settle this lawsuit?
With the current water crisis now on the front page, let's hope these agencies get a closer look so that the public can put a stop to their money going down the drain.
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