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BRENT SPINER in Hill Street Blues (1981) S05E19

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BRENT SPINER in Hill Street Blues (1981) S05E19

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Brent Spiner (Data) as Larry Stein and Kiel Martin (Officer J.D. LaRue) 1985 in Hill Street Blues “The Life and Time of Dominic Florio Jr.”

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An Oklahoma county official quoted Martin Luther King Jr. to defend a series of racist and anti-Muslim Facebook posts. Larry Stein, the Oklahoma County assessor, made the posts in response to protests against police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri, and Muslims, in general, reported KFOR-TV. “There hasn’t been this great of a racial divide in America since the 1850’s,” Stein posted in 2014. “Congrats to the thugs and animals in Ferguson.” Another post suggested that Muslims …

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Drake wins lawsuit against woman claiming he raped and impregnated her

Drake has settled his lawsuit against Layla Lace (real name Laquana Morris), a woman who allegedly falsely claimed that she was raped and impregnated by the rapper.

This was revealed by Drake’s attorney Larry Stein in a statement made to TMZ.

“The filing made by Drake against Layla Lace has been resolved, with Layla avoiding going to trial by agreeing to a stipulated judgment which prohibits her…

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Residential utility rates explained

By Larry Stein

The city of Oxnard operates 3 utility facilities; Solid Waste (Environmental Services aka Trash), Water, and Waste Water (aka Sewer). Each utility is operated as if they were separate businesses. The financial reporting process is tracked through a method known as Enterprise Funds. Revenue is collected together in a combined bill listing the fees for Solid Waste, Water and Waste Water separately. In 2012 Oxnard city staff performed a review of the conditions of the city utilities. In 2013, Public hearings were held and the city council approved increases in the utility rates starting in 2014.

Several items affecting utility rates have occurred since then. The drought in California started in 2012, continued. In 2014 the first stage of emergency drought conditions was declared. In 2015 the second stage of emergency drought conditions was declared and mandatory water conservation measures were implemented. In 2015 the trash facility (MRF Material Transfer Facility), which is owned by the city, but was operated by a private company, began to be operated by the city, saving ratepayers money. A new city manager started working for the city in June of 2014. The new city manager initiated a city wide investigation and determined that numerous issues had not been sufficiently addressed by the two previous city managers including extreme failure in maintaining the facilities and equipment for the waste water facilities. A study was started in 2014 to determine the extent repairs were needed at the waste water facility.

This year, 2015, staff reported that the waste water facility needed significant upgrades to the point that a new facility may be needed to be built. The main facility was built in the 1970s with upgrades in the following 20 years. No significant repairs have been made in the last 15 years. Funds had not been set aside for these expected repairs. Due to the mandatory drought restrictions, staff has reported that revenues for water and waste water have gone down while repair and maintenance costs have gone up. Debt service; payments of water and waste water bonds remain.

Cities borrow money through the issuance of bonds, much like borrowing money to buy a house. The better credit one has, the more money one provides for a down payment, the better the terms the borrower receive. Bond ratings are much like FICO scores, instead of a number value such as 620 or 780, bonds are rated by letters such as, AAA, AA, B and signs + or -. A rating of AAA+ is the best rating. If a bond rating of less than BBB occurs i.e. BBB- or BB, then a government entity cannot borrow money. When bonds are issued, bond covenants or agreements are established. Such covenants include the amount of cash that is available by the borrower and the amount of surplus revenue the borrower is expected to have after paying its financial obligation such as operating costs and debt. Unlike a mortgage, when a borrower must satisfy the lender only at the time of borrowing, a borrower who uses bonds as a form of debt, must maintain the conditions of bond covenants at all times. If the bond covenants are not maintained, the bond holders may ask for their money back, or in most cases, have the borrower pay a fee. The city of Oxnard is concerned that due to declining revenues in water and waste water, the city may be facing violations of bond covenants. Members of the public are concerned that the city may be in violation of bond covenants when it come to the waste water bonds.

In August of 2015, the city asked for citizen volunteers from business, single family residents and multi-family residents to participate, as a committee, in a review of the city’s plans to increase utility rates. This committee, URAP (Utility Ratepayers Advisory Panel), of which I am a member, met Wednesdays evenings, at public forums, at the different utility sites for several weeks. Members asked questions and offered opinions following numerous 90 minutes presentations by staff and their consultants, In November of this year, 2015, a public hearing was held announcing a proposal to increase utility rates. Members of the public felt the increases were unnecessary and wanted to have the published announcement to include a ballot where ratepayers may cast a ballot opposing the rate increases. The public notice of the proposed rate increase, of which the ballot was included, was mailed to each rate payer the second week of December, 2015. Please note my estimation of the impact the proposed rate increases will have on residential rate payers.

Total Utility Billing based on Usage Usage in HCF

Year

2015

$94.24

$109.96

$121.81

$132.34

$162.85

$182.47

2016

$111.73

$128.89

$148.78

$168.67

$193.21

$220.18

2017

$119.70

$137.55

$158.19

$178.83

$204.18

$232.20

2018

$130.40

$149.36

$171.29

$193.22

$220.13

$249.92

2019

$140.10

$160.50

$184.11

$207.72

$236.64

$268.68

2020

$149.38

$171.46

$196.99

$222.52

$253.81

$288.46

Percentage Increase Each Year

2016

18.56%

17.22%

22.14%

27.45%

18.64%

20.67%

2017

7.13%

6.72%

6.32%

6.02%

5.68%

5.46%

2018

8.94%

8.59%

8.28%

8.05%

7.81%

7.63%

2019

7.44%

7.46%

7.48%

7.50%

7.51%

2020

6.62%

6.83%

7.00%

7.12%

7.26%

7.36%

48.69%

46.81%

51.23%

56.15%

46.89%

48.63%

Members of the public feel these rates are excessive. A Special City Council Meeting on Utility rate increases took place on December 10, 2015. The presentation by staff and its consultants lasted 3 ½ hours. The opinions and comments from URAP members were not discussed. To oppose the rate increase, 22,000 ratepayers must submit signed ballot to the city clerk protesting the rate increases. If more than 50% if the ratepayers object to the rate increases, city council cannot raise the utility rates. Opinion counts. If you do not speak, you cannot be heard. Please mail your ballot to the city clerk by December 31, 2015.

Read/Vote: Oxnard proposed rate increase and protest ballot

Larry Paul Stein

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Larry Stein is an accountant and former Oxnard Mayoral candidate, who has been following City of Oxnard financial issues for over 20 years.

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Oxnard GREAT water recycling proram

By Larry Stein

20 years ago, a few people in the city of Oxnard were concerned about the long term availablity of local groundwater. Some people felt that if local wastewater could be cleaned, it could be recycled back into the local water system. Thus the GREAT (Ground water Recovery Enhancement And Treatment) Program was conceived and is currently being implemented.

Oxnard GREAT program facility

The GREAT Program will have the capacity of generating 28,000 acre feet of recycled water every year. Capacity or production is being built in 7,000 acre feet increments. Each increment is referred to as a skid. The current capacity is 1 skid, capacity for the second skid is currently under construction. The assumption at the time of the GREAT program was started is that there would be a demand for GREAT Water. Demand is driven by cost. There are several cost components to the GREAT Water. Construction, finance, production and delivery are the major cost components for GREAT Water. Demand is also driven by alternative economic choices. Why would someone pay $1,300 for a unit of water if they are currently paying $100.00? The $100.00 per unit of water may not be available.

Local farmers may pay $100.00 for a unit of water,. That water may be used for irrigation,. It does not have to be drinkable water (potable water). It costs the city of Oxnard about $600.00 to produce a unit of potable water. Due to over drafting of the local aquifers by cities and farmers, there is not sufficient amount of local potable water. So the city has to import water at $1,100 per unit. The city then mixes local water with imported water to assure that there is sufficient local potable water. It is expected that the cost of imported water will increase to $2,000 per unit within 10 years, as the cost to develop and deliver new water goes up The Delta Project in Northern California is the expected source of new water.

One of the purposes of the GREAT program is to supply sufficient non-potable water that can be used for irrigation and non drinking purposes so that potable water is available. The GREAT Water has to be delivered in order for it to be used. A major water user, Proctor and Gamble, needs clean water. It uses imported water, water that is not mixed with city water and pays for the water at local rates, not the imported rate. The difference is subsidized by all the other water users. GREAT Water is priced to be 85% of the rate charged for industrial users. It is my understanding that Proctor and Gamble is willing to use GREAT Water rather than imported water because the GREAT Water is cleaner than imported water. The GREAT Water needs to be delivered to them, but it will cost several million dollars to build a pipeline from Ormond Beach, where the GREAT Water is being generated to Proctor and Gamble on Rice Avenue. It is conceivable to build a GREAT Water line up Rose Avenue, similar to the GREAT Water line that transverses Ventura Avenue. The GREAT Water lines can have lateral water lines to provide non potable water to irrigate the landscape at schools, parks, and street medians. These lateral line will also be capable to deliver non potable water to industrial parks to service companies whose needs are similar to that of Procter and Gamble.

I estimate that if 18,000 units (less than 3 skids) of GREAT Water can be sold at the rate set by Oxnard City Council in the Summer of 2012, the unit cost of the GREAT Water would be close to $1,300 per unit, the price the water is being sold; a breakeven opportunity. The cost would be less than the $2,000 per unit of future expected costs of imported water. I estimate that if 2 skids of GREAT Water were sold, the unit cost of that water would be close to $1,600 per unit.

There is a proposed contract to sell a total of 5,000 units of GREAT Water at $350.00 per unit to 3 farm operators. Current rate payers, not the farm operators, will be paying for the construction of the water line to the farming operations. 5,000 units of GREAT Water is expected to cost $8,000,000 at $1,600 per unit, but the farmers will only be paying $1,750,000. The remaining rate payers will be subsidizing $6,250,000 per year for 10 years. The city needs to increase production to 3 skids of water, and provide a delivery system of the water. Pricing may have to be increased to cover to costs to deliver the water to the users. Factoring in the monthly meter rate a single family residential user of water who uses 15 HCFs (1 HCF = 1/435.6 unit) per month pays 33% more for water than one who will be using GREAT Water. Residential water is drinkable, but less clean than GREAT Water which is not drinkable. Go figure, I did.

Larry Paul Stein

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Larry Stein is an accountant and former Oxnard Mayoral candidate, who has been following City of Oxnard financial issues for over 20 years.

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