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Wednesday’s top of the scroll: Delta oversight panel already being undermined, lawmakers fear

Posted by: Maven on March 10, 2010 at 6:33 am

From the Stockton Record:

“Appointments to a new council overseeing the Delta are coming “very, very soon,” the Schwarzenegger administration said Tuesday.

But in the meantime, the state has already transferred employees into the new bureaucracy, and is seeking contractors to write an important plan for the estuary – actions which lawmakers say undermine the Delta Stewardship Council before its members have even been seated.

“The concern that I feel strongly about is … whether this council is going to be truly independent. Right now it’s reversed. The agencies are driving the train,” state Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, said during a legislative oversight hearing Tuesday.

In a prepared statement afterward, Wolk said her “worst fears were confirmed” and that the seven-member council is “being put into a position of doing little more than rubber stamping decisions made by other agencies.” … “

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March 10, 2010 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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