Amazing! It's possible that if we rebid the project there won't be a second bidder so, because that possibility exists, let's move forward with this company that we know is shady.

Why get competitive bids to start with if there's the possibility that there will only be one bidder?

Disgusting...at least Goldie resigned (aka 'canned')....a google search on the Water District brings up all sorts of disturbing details..how do they get away with this?

"RMC has billed the water district $350,000 for work that had not been performed on a flood protection project in San Jose."

Sept 2015..
"In proposing the RMC deal, (former) CEO Goldie neglected to disclose two material facts: first, one of his top deputies is married to a company principal; and second, just weeks before the water district granted him authority to draw up a deal, ex-Monterey County water board member Steve Collins pled no contest to criminal charges for accepting $160,000 in illegal payments from RMC." Web Link

Dec 2015 Web Link

Mar 2015 Web Link

Feb 2015 Web Link

Why, why, why?

At least our representative Kremen had the good sense to say no.

Between VTA, MVWSD, and SCVWD...why so much incompetence?

What a sham! Delay the project. Kudos to Kremen and Keegan.

Why not use the Army Corps of Engineers?
Delay the project until ethical, competent contractors can be located.
Shady is shady and does not disappear. RMC paid at least one bribe.

The facts speak to themselves. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Doesn't anyone know the word NO when dealing with the ONLY BID contractor?
There must be at least 3 BIDDING CONTRACTORS or the whole " open " bid system is a sham.

This is why military " open " contract bidding is a sham and WE pay the bills! $300 hammers, $2500 toilet seats and the F-35 " do everything " jet fighter.

PT Barnum said it best and you have four people to prove his statement!

I think the Board made the right decision to move forward on this project. I've been advocating for this water recycling to be implemented since 1971, first as a consultant and then as an elected Director for 23 years. The SCVWD locked into expanding our water supply using other people's water for the last 50 years.

That strategy finally proved to be unreliable with this current drought when our aqueducts deliveries from the State and the Feds dropped to 10-50% of our contract entitlements. So we started overdrafting the groundwater basins like we haven't done since the 1930's and 1960's. Our past overdraft caused up to 13 ft of subsidence, creating the potential for widespread flooding and damage to local infrastructure.

With this pause in El Nino this month, we should all remember that our water table is right at the subsidence threshold and, when it starts again, the damage to our infrastructure will cost us billions and expose us to even greater flooding as sea level rises coupled with storm surges from up and downstream.

This project may be too little too late, but 45 years of delay has set us up for disaster. The Water Board knows this and they are right to "dam the torpedoes" of public outrage and move finally move this project forward.

Never Thirst!

Pat Ferraro
Read more: Web Link

The whole thing stinks like the output from a sewage-to-water recycling plant done by a shady engineering firm like RMC.

Very proud of Kremen, our Mountain View representation was against RMC. I personally voted against him last time, but I see that was a big mistake.

Not only did Kremen 1) bring to light RMC's conflict of interest in the first place; 2) the lack of financial prudence for a sole source contract of that amount; 3) call into question the urgency, as it will take up to 10 years to get actually water in the ground and a lot can happen in 10 years (assuming no challenges from us environmentalists); 4) got rid of that fish hating, CEQA waiving CEO Beau Goldie (along with the Chair Keegan) but 5) quoted Kevin Forestieri concern's from the dais!!

I appreciate Board Members Kremen and Keagan's work here on behalf of taxpayers. i understand the majority wanting to move forward with the project - it's an important project. But It is ill advised to proceed with a project this size on a single bid contract with so many yellow flags. The Board exists to provide oversight to District precisely to protect from these issues.

After the known conflicts and shady dealings were exposed by Metro and San Jose Inside, the contract should have been frozen and a new vendor found. How could a contract continue when they were paid for work never done. That's a gift of public funds. John Chase and the DA are being too timid ... they should be subpoenaing documents.

Water boarding like this should be illegal! Dump those members that voted yes.

Same old s(tuff) from the Water Board. What is wrong with these politicians? Are they so foolish as to actually DRINK THE WATER?

I arrived at a car dealership to pick up our car after a
service, we were told the keys had been locked in it.
We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver’s side door.
As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked.
‘Hey,' I announced to the technician, 'its open!'
His reply, 'I know. I already did that side.'