You really don't get it - they don't want your input

State sets meetings for new water adequacy law … the Daily Courier … Tuesday, 12 Feb 08 … The Arizona Department of Water Resources plans to use three meetings to work on rules related to a new state law that gives counties new powers. The first one takes place Thursday in Flagstaff, followed by meetings in Parker and Tucson. The Legislature and governor approved Senate Bill 1575, commonly called the adequacy bill, last year. The Department of Water Resources has to set up rules and procedures to implement the law. The law gives counties the right to reject new subdivisions that do not have adequate 100-year water supplies. County boards of supervisors need unanimous votes to adopt the adequacy rule.The meeting times and locations are: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14 at the Flagstaff Branch Library, 3000 N. Fourth St., community room; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 at the La Paz County Board of Supervisors meeting room, 1108 Joshua Ave., Parker; and 10 a.m. to noon at the State Office Building, 400 W. Congress, Room 222, Tucson.The state agency plans an informal stakeholder process through June, followed by a formal rulemaking process in July through October. It anticipates making the rules and procedures final in November.


State sets meetings for new water adequacy law … the Daily Courier … Tuesday, 12 Feb 08 … The Arizona Department of Water Resources plans to use three meetings to work on rules related to a new state law that gives counties new powers. The first one takes place Thursday in Flagstaff, followed by meetings in Parker and Tucson. The Legislature and governor approved Senate Bill 1575, commonly called the adequacy bill, last year. The Department of Water Resources has to set up rules and procedures to implement the law. The law gives counties the right to reject new subdivisions that do not have adequate 100-year water supplies. County boards of supervisors need unanimous votes to adopt the adequacy rule.The meeting times and locations are: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14 at the Flagstaff Branch Library, 3000 N. Fourth St., community room; 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 at the La Paz County Board of Supervisors meeting room, 1108 Joshua Ave., Parker; and 10 a.m. to noon at the State Office Building, 400 W. Congress, Room 222, Tucson.The state agency plans an informal stakeholder process through June, followed by a formal rulemaking process in July through October. It anticipates making the rules and procedures final in November.It’s damn sure not perfect but it’s your initial opportunity to be heard and have a voice in development of water adequacy laws for Arizona. Use it or lose it, the choice is solely yours…?

TIME & PLACE … 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14 at the Flagstaff Branch Library, 3000 N. Fourth St., Community room;

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 at the La Paz County Board of Supervisors meeting room, 1108 Joshua Ave., Parker; Arizona

Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 10 a.m. to noon at the State Office Building, 400 W. Congress, Tucson, Arizona

Oh, the fact you are employed and find the time and place unreasonable did not enter the bureaucrats minds that developed this “dog and pony show” to prove compliance with state law.

Don’t you get it they don’t really want your input. You were never part of the $olution, $ave you’ll pay for it.