Recall the rats remaining at Rainbow

Rainbow Municipal Water District Division 4 ratepayers have recalled Tom Cole and elected a third reform candidate, Russ Hatfield. Cole was the last of my “three little piggies,” because they cost ratepayers so much money. Now I find a new number one piggy on the directors’ expense sheets: Division 5’s Bob Glick was into the ratepayer trough $1,710.67 (without ratepayer medical insurance) for December ’04 and $1,191.70 for January ’05!

Glick has accomplished only two things: he granted “son” Ensminger not only a mid-year salary increase with perk increases, but another in December ’04 with a contract extension!

GM Ensminger incited two wrongful termination lawsuits to bring prior board President Tomlinson (illegally?) into a lucrative administration manager position, which cost ratepayer insurer JPIA $622,574. This figure does not include money for lost management time, additional legal expenses, an employee attrition rate of 50 percent, loss of productivity from poor morale, and the long learning curve for the other 50 percent new trainees. I estimate this loss at $1 million! Do you think the GM deserved additional raises and perks for the “Million Dollar Baby” he couldn’t manage without?

Ex-directors’ expenses still appear on Rainbow’s checklists in the monthly informational items package: Cal Pers health, and commingled into employee — Met Life dental and ACWA vision insurance. Bopf collects per diems sporadically, as he is still employed by developers for an estimated six figures a year — a conflict of interest with not only Rainbow but his seat on the Fallbrook Planning Group.

Voter recall is the fastest and best way to discourage and rid ourselves of leeches who get on boards for self-enriching reasons. We voters have removed three old-clique Rainbow directors, but two still remain: Glick and Bopf.

Recall the remaining Rainbow rats from our district.