Rainbow ratepayer frustration with old directors

Old Clique Directors Glick and Bopf are disruptive and time-consuming at recent Rainbow Municipal Water District board meetings. Over 70 percent of voters elected Directors Sundram, Griffiths and Hatfield for their individual expertise and they are being obstructed from helping us. As a poor little water district, Rainbow could not possibly obtain nor afford in-house employees with the type of top echelon management, finance, insurance, personnel, computer and engineering skills that these three directors offer freely in public service because they loved “retiring” in our rural lifestyle.

The general manager, his “mentor,” Glick and Bopf are trying to keep licensed engineer Griffiths away from inspections of the old sewage lift stations. Suspicious financial information has been “unavailable” or presented hopelessly commingled and ex-insurer JPIA rudely refused to communicate with Sundram or Hatfield! I have to ask, “What is Rainbow hiding?” when these negative events occur.

A real rubber stamp from Office Depot would be more useful than Glick at board meetings. He managed to collect the maximum $900 for attending six (!) meetings in February, prior to the per diem reduction voted earlier this month. Collecting maximum per diems and perks was a familiar pattern with prior recalled/lame duck directors.

Glick and Bopf were in Old Board majority last December when they not only GAVE the GM another undue raise but removed the expiration date (!) of his contract. Does this mean we are stuck with him through senility? The current board could “buy out” the GM for a one-year salary ($135K), not the $250k+ that Glick and Bopf publish.