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Imperial Irrigation District: Grand jury report is ‘sinister’

Posted by: Maven on June 25, 2009 at 6:55 am

From the Imperial Valley Press:

For the first time since the mid-1990s, an Imperial County Civil Grand Jury has released a report on an investigation of the Imperial Irrigation District.

According to the report the IID uses too many outside consultants with close ties to competing water agencies, has budgets and policies that “are so labyrinthine that they tend to bog down into a bureaucratic mess” and employs managers who “seem to reflect attention to their perceived public image rather than to any substantive reform.” The report also criticizes the district’s method of determining water costs and urges its Board of Directors to “commit its time and talents to running the entity themselves, rather than allowing decisions to rest in … the hands of a single general manager.”

The IID released its response on Wednesday, characterizing some of the jury’s allegations as “sinister” and “unsubstantiated.” The IID found particular fault with the jury’s “cavalier and careless use of the word ‘corruption,’” in its report. “If evidence of corruption at IID exists it has not been shared with the district or included in (the jury’s report),” the IID’s response states.

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June 25, 2009 · Filed Under Imperial Valley

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  1. The week that was, 6/21-27/2009 | on June 28th, 2009 7:45 pm

    [...] The Imperial Irrigation District found particular fault with an Imperial County Civil Grand Jury’s cavalier and careless use of the word “corruption.’”  In its report the jury also asked for responses to issues raised in two previous civil grand jury investigations conducted in the 1990s. …  the IID admitted its apparent failure to respond to previous civil grand jury reports but questioned the relevance of doing so more than a decade after the fact.”  Imperial Valley Press via Aquafornia [...]

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