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“Ojai is organizing a mutiny against Golden State Water Company”

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What you are about to learn has the largest financial impact of any single event in Ojai’s history!

Our schools will have $22,000 more to spend on education and the citizens & businesses in Ojai will have nearly $1 million more annually to spend locally to support our community simply by changing our water purveyor from Golden State Water Company to Casitas Municipal Water District.

All it takes to get started is for the citizens & businesses in Ojai served by Golden State Water to unite, and collect signatures on a petition directed to the Casitas Municipal Water District Board of Directors to initiate proceedings to cause the following to occur:

  1. Form a revenue improvement district encompassing the Ojai service area of Golden State.
  2. Hold an election among the registered voters of the proposed revenue improvement district to consider issuing revenue bonds, not to exceed $33,000,000, for the purposes of purchasing the Golden State water system and making needed improvements to that water system.
  3. In addition to the standard Casitas rates for like customers, apply a water surcharge of $2.50 per hundred cubic foot of water on all water served in the improvement district for a period not to exceed 30 years for the purposes of serving the debt and funding needed improvements. For more information, read the flyer (PDF) and Feasibility Analysis. (one hundred cubic foot or CCF = 748 gallons)
  4. Replace Golden State with Casitas as the Ojai area water purveyor.

The signatures to this petition base their requests for the above actions on the following:

  1. Golden State is within the Casitas district boundaries; the residents have historically paid taxes to Casitas, and routinely receive supplemental water from Casitas.
  2. This action will result in no change in the place (where) Ojai Groundwater Basin water will be used or change in place (where) Lake Casitas water will be used, and the actions will result in no increase in overall water demand.
  3. This action will not be a burden to the existing rate payers of Casitas.
  4. The average customer now served by Golden State will realize a 10%-15% reduction in annual water costs in the first year and can look forward to stable future water rates with Casitas as their water purveyor.

Ojai FLOW encourages rate payers to check out the savings themselves by going to the Casitas Web Site and entering their water bill:

  • Select Monthly Bill Calculator
  • Enter Bi-monthly, Pumped, etc.
  • Double the amount because the results are monthly
  • Add $2.50 for each CCF you use (Surcharge to buy Golden State)

The total is what you will pay in the future after Casitas becomes our water purveyor.

This web site and all that has been done to take control of our water is by Ojai volunteers using local money received from donations to Ojai FLOW. If you believe in what we are doing and want the people of Ojai to take control of its water and future rate increases, please Donate Now.