Dear Editor:
The CZU Lightning Fire has heightened awareness throughout the SLV of the critical role that our local Water District plays in providing us with safe and reliable access to water. The upcoming November election offers four qualified candidates to fill two Board of Director seats for the SLV Water District. All four candidates are fully capable of serving our community, but there are important differences between them that can’t be discerned purely by looking at campaign signs.
The Friends of SLV Water is a group of local residents that works to ensure clean and affordable water in the Valley and strives to educate residents about water related issues. In an effort to provide background information on all the candidates, we have developed a non-partisan forum on our website to distinguish candidates on different subjects: https://www.friendsofsanlorenzovalleywater.org/november-2020-election
We sent all candidates a list of questions on seven water-related topics ranging from emergency preparedness to water rates to environmental protection to Board deliberations and more. We also plan to include links to candidate websites as well as articles from accredited journalists that objectively report on the candidates. As we receive more information, we will add a link to it on the candidate’s page of our website.
We hope that this evolving collection of material will provide Water District customers with the information they need to make an informed decision on which candidates will make the best Directors. Thank you for sharing this with your readers.
Sincerely,
Lee Summers
FSLVW
