JV game added. Will play Taft JV at 4:30

We are already having water issues with restricted use, so how could it be possible that we can just come up with all this additional water? Are they going to restrict us even further and add additional penalties for over usage so they can build more homes? What about electricity, have you forgotten about the lovely rolling blackouts? What happens when the animals that have lived in this area FOREVER, come into the new neighborhoods that used to be THEIR HOMES, looking for food? People will freak out, call animal control and animals will be destroyed because humans have no idea how to co-exist with each other, let alone with wildlife! I read in the minutes from the last meeting that Kern has had an upswing in tourist dollars over the last year. Do you think tourists come to visit Kern for your resorts or to see huge cement slabs??? Uh, NO!!! They come because of the natural beauty! I, myself, LOVE Kern, and I go to the river ALL the time, there isn’t any place I love more. If this idiotic idea goes through, not only will you be destroying something as beautiful as the Tejon Ranch area, you will be destroying something that CANNOT EVER be replaced. What are you thinking? Oh, I forgot, you aren’t thinking…. Except for the money that you’ll be putting in your pockets. It seems suspicious that all the people in favor of this atrocity are the same ones that receive LOTS of money from the Tejon Ranch Company annually; it seems to me that they should be looked into. California is broke, building in an area with two of the largest earthquake faults in the area, and in addition to a high fire danger zone, how can insurance companies afford to cover homes, and just how many people will have the money it will take to pay for the insurance? What happens in the winter months when the highway is closed due to snow and terrible weather? Again, I ask, BUT maybe I need to ask louder, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING??????? On a last but not least note, you will probably see a lot less tourist dollars if this project goes through. It takes long enough to get to Kern from Los Angeles, this monstrosity will multiply the congestion horribly, I doubt anyone will want to deal with that, I know for the few days I can take off to get a way, I won’t want to drive 5 hours to get to Kernville, 3 hours is already long enough!

Where is the water going to come from? http://www.carlsbad-desal.com/ $25,000 worth of solar panels will produce enough power to water 100 water hog trees, like oak trees for instance. Any community adjacent to the california aqueduct will eventually down the line be able to take water out of the fake river and exchange it for solar power that it puts into the electrical grid. The nice thing about this type of water for power swap is on cloudy days when there is no sun there will not be a big need for water and vice versa. Down the line they will be able to take the power and turn it back into water near the coastal communities where the aqueduct water is destined to travel eventually.