City: Knight water ad is a ?scare tactic?

[David McCarthy]

Here is another blatant example of Judith using scare tactic's outside the R$E compound,
this time directed at the local population by attacking the Yelm city?s process of water planning with a full page spread in our local paper.
This is classic RSE fear mongering... = divide, conquer and control.
But she will find out soon enough that without her "Ramtha mystique" infecting critical thinking,
the locals will not be so easily bamboozled nor manipulated.

Judith going after the local community could mark her downfall and "the last waltz of a tyrant"...!

David.


*****************


Klein: ?It?s definitely making a statement to garner attention?
By Megan Hansen
Nisqually Valley News
Published: Friday, May 22, 2009 3:51 PM PDT
?Scare tactic? and ?attack? is how City of Yelm officials are describing a full-page ad purchased this week by channeler JZ Knight.

Knight?s advertisement appeared in this week?s Nisqually Valley Shopper and Nisqually Valley News. It also appears on Knight?s Web site.

Knight is founder of the Ramtha School of Enlightment.

Knight?s spokesman Steve Klein said the ad is not an attack on the city.


?This ad was an informational ad,? Klein said. ?It shows where the city is lacking.?

?It?s definitely making a statement to garner attention.?The ad also questions the city?s process of water planning.

City officials Tuesday described information in the ad as inaccurate and partial, at best. They dispute claims that the city used taxpayer money to fund a water study for Thurston Highlands and that the city is increasing water rates to accommodate the master planned community, all allegations long made by Klein, a former mayoral candidate.

Klein was defeated for Yelm mayor four years ago.

The water study, which originally cost about $550,000 was partially funded by a $300,000 state Department of Ecology grant. The remaining cost of the study was covered by the city?s water fund.

?We want on the record that information for the Water Plan advertisement came directly from the city?s own information, from documents the city cited in support of their MDNS,? Knight said in a prepared statement.

Knight?s claim that the city conducted the study to benefit Thurston Highlands is simply untrue, city officials maintain.

?They cut and paste pieces of information,? said Yelm Community Development Director Grant Beck.

?If we don?t get new water rights, everything shuts down, not just Thurston Highlands.?

Yelm City Administrator Shelly Badger said the city conducted the study to determine if the southwest section of Yelm was an appropriate place to pull water from in a long-term scenario.

The study determined a southwest aquifer was deeper than the aquifer city wells are currently pumping from and could sustain long-term use.

Badger said the study needed to be conducted regardless of Thurston Highlands, but that the Highlands can?t be left out because it is inside city limits.

?The key being missed is

The step-by-step-by-step process,? said Badger.

The city is working on a water plan that looks 30 years in the future, she said, explaining that 30 years is broken into four phases.

?What they?re picking out and attacking is the final piece,? Beck said. ?They?re making it sound like the impact is tomorrow.?

The city is participating in a regional watershed study with other agencies, including Olympia, Lacey and the Nisqually Tribe.

Part of the process includes modeling impacts to nearby water systems such as Yelm Creek, the Deschutes and Nisqually rivers.

The city conducted computer-generated ?model runs? of the various water options and their potential impacts on the water systems. Various models were run as information changed.

Yelm?s current draft water plan does anticipate well levels dropping, and models show levels decreasing, at most, 15 feet in Thurston Highlands during the fourth phase.

That drop is 30 years from now, city officials said.

By that time, Badger said, Thurston Highlands will be completely supported by city water, not wells.

City officials said the 23-foot drop in well levels cited by Knight in her ad is taken from an early model run examining what would happen if the city switched all wells to the southwest field. That model run showed water in the well field area could drop 10- and 23 feet.

Badger said nobody can make an accurate, blanket statement like ?wells could drop 23 feet,? because they?d have to know where other people?s wells are drawn and obtain all individual well logs.

As for the accusation that the city is raising water rates to accommodate Thurston Highlands, Yelm Project Manager Stephanie Ray said the Highlands wasn?t included in the six-year water plan because the city doesn?t anticipate any construction on the project for the next six years.

?The rate structure and project list are things we need as a city without the master planned community,? Ray said.

?It?s time for the city to have another well.?

The city hasn?t dug a new well since 1958.

In her ad, Knight said the city refused to evaluate environmental impacts of water expansion by issuing a Mitigated Determination of Non-Significance rather require an environmental impact statement.

The city had three choices of how to explore impact including the MDNS or EIS, Beck said.

?We?d be doing all the same studies if we?d done the EIS.?

Ultimately, state Ecology has final say on if the city?s water plan is acceptable.

Klein said his concern is the MDNS isn?t readily available to the public and not easily assessible on the Web site.

It?s posted on the city?s Web site under ?agendas and notices.?

?Why is it not on the home page?? Klein asked.

Badger said the city posts all environmental determinations in the same manner.

As for Knight?s allegations that the city is avoiding public discussion and input on water, city officials said that?s nonsense.

While working on the water system plan, the city held three open houses, Ray said.

?We?re very open to questions about the work we?re doing,? Badger said. ?We?re very willing to talk to (customers).?

Each time an open house was held, the city sent out blanket mailers to utility customers notifying them.

?While the city followed the standard protocol and has done the minimum required according to the letter of the law by holding open houses for the public, albeit many times during the dinner hour, they have not upheld the spirit of the law to protect the affected property owners,? Knight said in her statement.

?Given the severe and potentially permanent changes to water use for so many people, outreach to those affected by the city?s plan is imperative through direct mailings and more aggressive public interaction.?

?Your well water level could drop 23 feet and leave you dry,? the ad states. ?When this happens, when you least expect it, who?s going to pay you the $15,000 it takes to drill you a new well and replace your pumping equipment??

?Are you going to enjoy the surprise of having no water??

Information for the ad was prepared by Knight?s attorney, according to Klein.

Yelm Online > Local News

http://yelmonline.com/articles/2009/05/ ... 140417.txt

[ex]

obvious yelm has democratic elected official which very well know their stuff as you can see out of the replies. so jzr like to change or use the political system ?toward a dictatorshipp like on the ranch?.if she dosent like comunity and theire rules why doesent she leave yelm?thats the only option she gives her dissagreeing students.here whole add is structured like her days to come scare only down in the last corner you see the advertismentstatus of this whole thing.empires with too manny fights fall.i share youre hopes.

[G2G]

I just don't understand why she continues to 'create' this in her life. Just F-O-C-U-S, Judith. It's that simple, right?
Did she assume the throne of Yelm on her own? If she's concerned about the water rights of EVERYONE, why criticize what is being done to assist the area 30 years into the future?

The answer is clear - and 'always has been.' Judith appears to care about her own intere$t$. No love there, baby!

[ex]

since 2012 only her people will survive in theire ugs. i wonder what drives her. i remember one evening when jzr stated how wonderfull it would be to have dormetories. a littel hotel which creats income for the school. maybe there r not enough waterrights for everybody.