This dry, La Nina year, with fire season already here, why even consider draining 20 acre feet of water from ponds that proved useful during the 2013 Black Forest Fire? Helicopters that dipped water from these ponds successfully protected Park Forest Water District homes at the south tree border of the Black Forest. If drained, this valuable fire fighting resource would not be available to fight the next forest fire. After planned draft structures are constructed, these ponds also can improve Black Forest Fire Department ISO scoring and lower homeowner insurance rates in the proximate vicinity.Ask the PFWD Board of Directors. Ask Paul Anderson, the Districtís attorney. Ask Pam Sekac why she goes well beyond her duties as Board President to damage the Black Forest Community and the owners of the pond property. Ask why the PFWD Board chooses to ignore their responsibilities to maximize water resources to fight fires, to not comply with the 2016 Black Forest Community Wildfire Prevention Plan and to not cooperate with other Black Forest volunteer organizations such as Black Forest Together and Friends of the Black Forest Preservation Plan.Answers will reveal District violation of laws, including breach of contract, false reporting, refusal to provide service, poor water quality, shyster lawyering and hiding behind ìGovernmental Immunity,î which reads like George Orwell or Franz Kafka literature. After years of poor financial management, water rates in the Park Forest Water District are expensive ó to this add costs of litigation for a recipe for special assessments, new District debt and diminished property values. A majority of the Board of Directors, including President Pam Sekac, are up for election May 8. Replace them with new volunteer Board members who have executive business experience and common sense. Nominations are due by March 5.For more information: see the official PFWD website: www.colorado.gov/pacific/pfwd and the unofficial website: www.pfwd.co.-Steve Jacobs
