Thank you for announcing the upcoming LAFCo workshop which will discuss all the governance options for the Los Trancos County Water District. Your article did not mention that there are 3 alternatives which this district can pursue. Straight dissolution with all tax revenues distributed to all 10 local agencies; activation of latent powers for fire safety and storm water drainage and finally, the one option, which is never really discussed in any of your previous articles, district dissolution with the concurrent establishment of Zones of Benefit or maintenance districts managed within County agencies allowing for local control of those transferred services and funds. Citizen advisory groups would work with these agencies to ensure that our fire safety and drainage needs are addressed yearly.

My personal belief that our district cannot govern itself anymore and needs experienced and professional management from the relative county agencies and special districts. Talk of spending $4M for a new drainage infrastructure on an annual district budget of $290,000 is madness. We have no engineering staff or board experience managing multi-million dollar projects. Let us give up the ghost and move on!