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1905 - County buys property to build Newhall Jail (now next to city's Old Town Newhall Library) [story]
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Senator Scott Wilk, R- Antelope Valley, announced Monday Senate Bill 634 (SB 634), a measure which would create a new water district in the Santa Clarita Valley, was given a unanimous thumbs-up by the Senate.

“The Senate’s vote reflects the value California puts on taking a ‘big picture’ approach to our most valuable resources. Creating a modern and transparent water district in the Santa Clarita Valley will not only result in cost savings for ratepayers, but will result in an environmentally sustainable system as well,” said Wilk.

Wilk worked tirelessly with constituents, local elected officials, environmentalists, government agencies and water professionals to solicit their input on how best to establish the new organization.

Prior to the vote SB 634 was amended to address issues brought up by the Los Angeles Local Agency Formation Commission (LA-LAFCO).

“I have maintained an open door policy with the different community stakeholders so that we craft the best bill possible,” said Wilk. “I will continue in that vein as the bill moves through the Assembly. The Santa Clarita Valley is a wonderful community – where I raised my family and my children most likely will raise theirs. I am committed to getting this right.”

SB 634 will now go the Assembly Rules committee where it will be referred to a policy committee.

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2 Comments

  1. jim says:

    Blah, blah, blah. “I have, I will, I have”, etc. I get that you are owned and paid for by the local hierarchy. After all, they paid for your election didn’t they?

    The Senate Vote is based on a lot of things, one of them being the need to control everything of value in California. Why? Because value equals money, and control equals power.

    As a “supposed” Republican conservative, you should have been fighting tooth and nail against remote control of this valley’s water resources. Instead, you chose to suck up to the same people who pimped you into the legislature – Newhall Land and Framing, and their subsequent owners, as well as the entrenched clicque running the CLWA.

    Hey Scott; you may be a nice guy who is just going along to get along as an elected official.

    But you are sticking a big one into the apertures of most current property owners and members of existing water agencies in this town.

    The State has issued requirements to manage water; and some of those indeed require water management at a local level. However, giving absolute control of all water – runoff, stream bed, and well water owned by private persons to a semi-state agency that will not only control that water but charge for “over use” is simply the equivalent of governmental ownership.

    Please state in public to your voters and represented citizens that you believe that the State and it’s minion agencies should decide what they can and cannot pump from their personally owned wells.

    Because if you disagree with that, then you are already on the wrong side of the argument.

  2. waterpoorinBouquet says:

    So the 2,200 + people living in Bouquet Canyon who owe their own now dry wells are going to “charged” for over use? You are kidding Right?? The “reclaimed” water and all other water will be “supplied ” to the 21,000 households at the new Newhall Ranch out on highway 126. Wait does that mean the current water rate payers will be “fined” for over-use AFTER rationing what water we have?? …”Creating a modern and transparent water district” Yep makes sense to a mole who has its head stuck in dirt or in SOMEONES back pocket… We are dumber than they thought.

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