Bravest Cedar Hills Councilman — is Rob Crawley!

Written By: admin - Aug• 09•14

Mayor Gary Gygi is pushing for a $2 million bond (tax increase) for pressurized irrigation meters on every home

Mayor Gygi promoted, and the Council awarded, his business associate Richard Nobel a $10,000 water study contract.
Councilman Rob Crawley proposed trying to avoid the bond tax increase through alternating water days, as other cities successfully used.  His proposal was ignored by Mayor Gygi & other Council members.
Bravely, Councilman Crawley published a public posting, against the Mayor & some Council members, saying he sees it a conflict of interest for CH religious leader Richard Nobel to provide a $10,000 water metering feasibility study that may propose, and also be considered for a $2 million P.I. meter installation contract.  (see his two postings from Cedar Hills Forum below)
Council Crawley says that out of respect and protection for his Church and Richard Nobel’s reputation / ethics is declaring in advance he will NOT VOTE FOR on any such a proposed contract.

CEDAR HILLS CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT applauds Councilman ROB CRAWLEY for his brave and honorable leadership on this important issue!

Please come to a special Town Hall Meeting, Thursday August 14th, 7:00 p.m. at the CH Golf Clubhouse.

Highlights from Councilman Rob Crawley’s posting at www.aboutcedarhills.org…

Rob Crawley – Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:16 am

I am at odds with some in the city on the issue of pressurized irrigation metering. I would like to see us have a few years of education and maybe even tough restrictions before spending $2 Million on meters. The jury is still out for me (and others on the council I think) because we are gathering a lot more information this year than we had last year regarding usage. Also, we are in the middle of an outside study that should help us.

My only concern with the outside study is that the same group that is doing our pressurized irrigation study and will be coming up with recommendations is the group that is a front-runner for getting the business of designing the pressurized irrigation metering system.

I am never in favor of putting a good person such as Richard Noble in a position of a possible conflict of interest. Although, I consider him a great man and above abusing this position, I would not vote for his group to do any work on a project that they did the feasibility study on, just because it would look bad to others that may not know him as well as I feel that I do. For the record, I will not vote for his group to do any work on the system if they recommend doing the system because we are relying on them to give us an independent opinion. (emphasis added)


I believe stating this at this point, may in itself reduce any conflict of interest possibilities.

To thank & support & ask questions, contact Councilman Rob Crawley at rcrawley@cedarhills.org

Please encourage and applaud other Council members who join Rob’s reasonable and wise position.

 

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