Please go into this link....
http://www.abqjournal.com/389335/north/aamodt-settlement
Monday, April 28, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
DAY 1: PRC Hearing - JMEC/San Ildefonso – Rate Rider 4
Thank you community members that have been so dedicated in attending all meetings and thank you to the new people that helped represent our community.
It was a very successful day and many stood up and spoke for YOUR community.
BUT IT IS NOT OVER, the hearing will continue tomorrow with our community Interveners testifying on your behalf.George Gomez and Bobby Quintana have been working hard for over a year to represent you at THIS Hearing and they need EVERYONE and ANYONE to attend tomorrow and/or Thursday.
People are not being asked to attend all day’s, just part of one will work. It is very important and the new people in attendance today witnessed the POWER IN NUMBERS!
A special “Thank You” to Santa Fe County Commissioner Danny Mayfield and State Representative Carl Trujillo for being present today. They both made very supportive statements for fairness to ALL people. The effort you made to take the time to support and listen to your constituents is noted and appreciated!!
Monday, April 21, 2014
DEADLINE TO PROTEST PROPERTY TAXES IS MAY 1, 2014.
DEADLINE TO PROTEST PROPERTY TAXES IS MAY 1, 2014.
Community members have asked Santa Fe Assessors Office to answer your questions and provide forms for you to protest your property values and taxes. Now is the time!
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014
TIME: 6:30PM
WHERE: EL RANCHO COMMUNITY CENTER
There will be forms for you to complete if you want to protest property values and property taxes. County staff will be helping and accepting forms once complete.
Flyers have been posted throughout the community!
Community members have asked Santa Fe Assessors Office to answer your questions and provide forms for you to protest your property values and taxes. Now is the time!
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014
TIME: 6:30PM
WHERE: EL RANCHO COMMUNITY CENTER
There will be forms for you to complete if you want to protest property values and property taxes. County staff will be helping and accepting forms once complete.
Flyers have been posted throughout the community!
PRC JMEC/SAN ILDEFONSO HEARING - REMINDER
PRC JMEC/SAN ILDEFONSO HEARING: April 22, 2014 (Tuesday) @ 9am. PERA Building, Paseo de Peralta, Apodaca Hall (one level below ground level).
Taxpayers,
Between Aamodt Settlement, County Road 84 Easement, and JMEC Electrical Easement, there is no way our community can AFFORD legal assistance for it all. We will NOT win a legal battle. The pueblos have unlimited legal assistance thanks to your federal government and they will make it a legal battle to wear us down. BUT, we can win a political battle!! The County Commissioners, County Accessor, PRC Commissioners, State Representatives, Congressman and Governor of New Mexico are all elected into office and TAXPAYERS are more than 90% of the VOTE and it is ELECTION time!!
That being said, our strategy should be to SPEAK up. Please do so RESPECTIVELY to have the most impact and to be heard. The lack of fair representation by our elected officials and the unfair laws and regulations they are supporting is hurting their CONSTITUENTS! Please know the most effective DEFENSE is how this will personally hurt you! No one needs to speak legally or professionally. Speak your hardship and how this impacts you!
BEWARE, they will try to say that the rate increase is as low as $5 and San Ildefonso will try to take credit. NO, this was made possible by adjustments on local versus system lines as well as JMEC changing to a 10 year cost recovery period (instead of 3year) to collect on all the fines/easement payments already made. Don’t be FOOLED. They are now back loading the cost and with time rates will double and triple. When they do, it will be TOO LATE to protest.
Other Electrical Cooperatives have denied the astronomical easement amounts and were able to negotiate market values. Why not JMEC? Why is the PRC not directing JMEC to go back to negotiations with San Ildefonso? Why was our right to be EXCLUDED from the Rate Rider omitted?
San Ildefonso also wants to paint a pretty picture about what a wonderful relationship San Ildefonso government has with the community and have listed services they provide to us. To add salt to injury, San Ildefonso lawyers want our proof of what the REAL picture is to be THROWN OUT of the testimony!
WE CAN’T AFFORD LEGAL BUT WE CAN PAY FOR THEIRS!
It is SO important that, if possible, you attend this hearing tomorrow. Please bring copies of your exemption letters sent to JMEC. Our community Interveners have been working around the clock setting up this case in YOUR defense and need your SUPPORT and your VOICE. They continue to hit "brick walls" placed in front of them by lawyers and the Hearing Examiner (Carolyn Glick) herself. Lawyers defending JMEC and San Ildefonso......ALL PAID FOR BY YOUR ELECTRICAL FEES AND YOUR TAX DOLLARS!!
Taxpayers,
Between Aamodt Settlement, County Road 84 Easement, and JMEC Electrical Easement, there is no way our community can AFFORD legal assistance for it all. We will NOT win a legal battle. The pueblos have unlimited legal assistance thanks to your federal government and they will make it a legal battle to wear us down. BUT, we can win a political battle!! The County Commissioners, County Accessor, PRC Commissioners, State Representatives, Congressman and Governor of New Mexico are all elected into office and TAXPAYERS are more than 90% of the VOTE and it is ELECTION time!!
That being said, our strategy should be to SPEAK up. Please do so RESPECTIVELY to have the most impact and to be heard. The lack of fair representation by our elected officials and the unfair laws and regulations they are supporting is hurting their CONSTITUENTS! Please know the most effective DEFENSE is how this will personally hurt you! No one needs to speak legally or professionally. Speak your hardship and how this impacts you!
BEWARE, they will try to say that the rate increase is as low as $5 and San Ildefonso will try to take credit. NO, this was made possible by adjustments on local versus system lines as well as JMEC changing to a 10 year cost recovery period (instead of 3year) to collect on all the fines/easement payments already made. Don’t be FOOLED. They are now back loading the cost and with time rates will double and triple. When they do, it will be TOO LATE to protest.
Other Electrical Cooperatives have denied the astronomical easement amounts and were able to negotiate market values. Why not JMEC? Why is the PRC not directing JMEC to go back to negotiations with San Ildefonso? Why was our right to be EXCLUDED from the Rate Rider omitted?
San Ildefonso also wants to paint a pretty picture about what a wonderful relationship San Ildefonso government has with the community and have listed services they provide to us. To add salt to injury, San Ildefonso lawyers want our proof of what the REAL picture is to be THROWN OUT of the testimony!
WE CAN’T AFFORD LEGAL BUT WE CAN PAY FOR THEIRS!
It is SO important that, if possible, you attend this hearing tomorrow. Please bring copies of your exemption letters sent to JMEC. Our community Interveners have been working around the clock setting up this case in YOUR defense and need your SUPPORT and your VOICE. They continue to hit "brick walls" placed in front of them by lawyers and the Hearing Examiner (Carolyn Glick) herself. Lawyers defending JMEC and San Ildefonso......ALL PAID FOR BY YOUR ELECTRICAL FEES AND YOUR TAX DOLLARS!!
Sunday, April 20, 2014
EMAIL FROM PRIVATE LANDOWNER TO COMMUNITY BLOG
Please see what Federal Judge Martha Vasquez, wife of Santa Fe City Councilor Joseph Maestas (who works for the Federal Bureau of Reclamation) WHO IS assigned to adjudicate the Aamodt Water Settlement is still SIGNING today.....
Emails to El Rancho:
Joe
"I just received notice from Barbara Brill and the US District court today, the 16th, that my well was adjudicated down to .7 acre feet. Vasquez signed the district court paper work."
Joe
"I don't have a clue as to what a subfile order is. I have not signed anything. Early last November or sooner I started getting the legal papers from the State Engineer and Brill. Actually it was earlier because I had 30 days to respond.There was room for "concerns" and to ask for a "consultation" which I did. This was before I had any idea of what was to come and what the options would be. I'll be happy to share the documents with you but I don't have any way to scan them. The "consultation was worthless by the way, more show and tell to give the appearance that we had a "voice"."
PEOPLE!!!
Proof whose interest Judge Vasquez is fighting for. RECALL all your letters from the Federal Bureau of Reclamation asking to survey your property! People, this is a chess game and they are SET UP well!!
Friday, April 18, 2014
YOUR ELECTRICAL BILL CAN STILL DOUBLE AND WITH TIME, MAY TRIPLE!
It is important for the El Rancho Community to read examples (ATTACHED) of claims by San Ildefonso Pueblo of services provided to El Rancho to prepare for Tuesday’s PRC Hearing. If you have any experience with the Pueblo that contradicts these claims, PLEASE come speak up. Discrediting these officials and their misleading/false claims is key. The community is now united. We have proven the power in numbers!
PRC JMEC/SAN ILDEFONSO HEARING: April 22, 2014 (Tuesday) @ 9am. PERA Building, Paseo de Peralta, Apodaca Hall (one level below ground level).
The basis for Perry Martinez’s testimony is that Ohkay Owingeh convinced the PRC that they provided many services to Espanola (for mostly non-Indians), therefore including non-Indians within the pueblo boundaries to pay these easement cost was fair.
San Ildefonso has been using Ohkay Owingeh as a precedent to pass the cost to include El Rancho residents. In both cases, non-Indians are the majority paying the easement cost.
That is the reason for Perry Martinez’s and Stephen Martinez’s testimony on services provided to the community.
Our Interveners, George Gomez and Bobby Quintana have disputed these claims in their testimony by submitting statements from El Rancho residents. These are people that have been bullied by the Pueblo, escorted off unfenced pueblo land at gun point, and been given an actual letter from the Pueblo that threatened residents walking on Indian land near their residence. The letter specifically stated that their land was not to be used for recreational purposes of ANY kind. This letter was signed by Stephen Martinez.
NOW THE PUEBLO IS PETITIONING THE COURT TO THROW THIS EVIDENCE OUT!
We need large numbers of protesters who will contradict San Ildefonso’s testimony and who will demand to be given a right to be excluded from this cost recovery method by the PRC.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
OUR VOICE IS GETTING LOUDER! MORE TO COME…STAY CONNECTED!
We have verified that there are currently 775 OBJECTIONS submitted to the Federal District Court in opposition to the Aamodt Settlement Agreement! Our community’s VOICE is growing and getting stronger. Please stay connected to help fight for our rights as private land owners!
As requested, see the link below to get informed about this House Bill that made the Aamodt Water System possible.
http://beta.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/3342
Monday, April 14, 2014
SEND IN YOUR JEMEZ COOP EXEMPTION REQUEST
The community has another opportunity to exercise its VOICE by objecting (in WRITING) to JMEC’s proposal to pass astronomical San Ildefonso easement cost to private land owners. ON APRIL 22 (TUES.) @ 9AM (Location TBD) the PRC will allow JMEC members to voice their opposition on easement cost recovery methods (Rate Rider 4).
In preparation for that opportunity, the community needs to send in a letter to JMEC requesting an exemption from access charges. We have attached an example letter that can be used to help you request exemption. Please feel free to edit as needed to meet your situation. Please take a copy of your signed request and take it with you to the APRIL 22 Hearing. These will become court record of you exercising your right to ask for exemption from Rate Rider 4.
Similar to HB 365, we need as many community members to be present
APRIL 22 to show the PRC that we are not happy with the way they have
protected the consumer.
Find attached the example letter. Please
send or deliver as soon as possible to JMEC. If you cannot make the
APRIL 22 Hearing, please email elranchocommunity@gmail.com and we will
make arrangements with you to obtain A COPY of your exemption letter you
sent to JMEC.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
READ WHAT THE REAL EXPERTS SAY ABOUT THE AAMODT SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT!
People from
our community have found documentation on how our constitutional rights are
being violated. They also found evidence that our Government is working
against us on the Aamodt Settlement to serve several special interest
groups. In fact, he states that the interest in this settlement by Santa
Fe County and Santa Fe City is due to the fact that OUR water will be made
available to Santa Fe for development.
Development that has been difficult due to lack of water. Thus the title, “Watering Santa Fe Conifers with water from
Nambe, Pojoaque, and Tesuque area”. The
Aamodt Settlement will not only give Pueblos what they have been fighting for
but will provide them unlimited profiting for years to come. The only losers in this settlement are the
taxpayers of our community!!
Turner
is a world renowned expert in Geology-Hydrology. Please take the time to
read his 2004 article on what is really happening with our water rights.
Apparently, Pecos had a similar issue in 2004 and was able to stop the
settlement by obtaining legal assistance to file objections. Only one objection was considered valid to
halt the whole settlement. In 2004, Dr.
Turner states his opinion on how the proposed Aamodt Settlement Agreement would be similar and how non-Indian Objectors would be left with little
recourse. In a nut shell, set up to
fail in stopping this unfair settlement.
A community member contacted Dr. Turner and he was not surprised that
his 2004 prediction was dead on!
We
have to ask, is this why Santa Fe County Legal is arguing to use a 1964
Hydrology Survey?? Does the aquifer really lack water? Is the surface
drought being used as manipulation to make us believe a water system is
needed yet the plan is to make water available to Santa Fe Developers?
Currently people in Bishops Lodge who are on city water are getting
included in this Settlement. Why?
Below
are direct links:
Dr.
Turner’s credentials.
Pecos
River Water Rights Purchase Program
Aamodt Settlement Agreement - Pojoaque Water Basin (also attached)
REMINDER: LAST AAMODT MEETING OFFERED BY REP. CARL TRUJILLO
Thursday , April 3, 2014
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Frank B Lopez Gym (Pojoaque Middle School)
1574 New Mexico State Road 502 West, Santa Fe, 87506
SAME DAY, SAME LOCATION, BUT STARTING AT 5PM!
The community will also be setting up a table with volunteers to help those objecting to complete their forms. We will have copies of objection examples as well copies of election forms and pre-labeled envelopes to seal and complete individual packets. We also have a volunteer who will be hand carrying all completed packets to the Federal Court on Friday, April 4, 2014. These will get stamped and the individual will ask for receipts if possible. If you have received attachments of objection examples please print and please bring with your election form. The volunteers have paid for printing of objections for those that DO NOT have access to a computer/printer or are not on our email listing. All parties listed on well(s) must be present to sign forms.
Also, there will be someone taking donations to pay for the legal cost of hiring a lawyer to file a motion to stay the April 7th deadline. Please help in any amount you can. This benefits ALL the community and although we understand that not all members can donate, please donate if you can and whatever amount you can. Checks can be made out to Lorenzo Atencio and list Aamodt Settlement as the donation on check memo.
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Frank B Lopez Gym (Pojoaque Middle School)
1574 New Mexico State Road 502 West, Santa Fe, 87506
SAME DAY, SAME LOCATION, BUT STARTING AT 5PM!
The community will also be setting up a table with volunteers to help those objecting to complete their forms. We will have copies of objection examples as well copies of election forms and pre-labeled envelopes to seal and complete individual packets. We also have a volunteer who will be hand carrying all completed packets to the Federal Court on Friday, April 4, 2014. These will get stamped and the individual will ask for receipts if possible. If you have received attachments of objection examples please print and please bring with your election form. The volunteers have paid for printing of objections for those that DO NOT have access to a computer/printer or are not on our email listing. All parties listed on well(s) must be present to sign forms.
Also, there will be someone taking donations to pay for the legal cost of hiring a lawyer to file a motion to stay the April 7th deadline. Please help in any amount you can. This benefits ALL the community and although we understand that not all members can donate, please donate if you can and whatever amount you can. Checks can be made out to Lorenzo Atencio and list Aamodt Settlement as the donation on check memo.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
REP. TRUJILLO OFFERING LAST MEETING BEFORE APR 7 DEADLINE PLUS COMMUNITY WORKSHOP TO COMPLETE FORMS
Additional Aamodt Water Settlement Community Meeting
In response to your requests, we've scheduled one more community meeting on the Aamodt Settlement before the April 7th deadline. Please come and we'll do our best to answer any still-unanswered questions you might have.
Thursday , April 3, 2014
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Frank B Lopez Gym (Pojoaque Middle School)
1574 New Mexico State Road 502 West, Santa Fe, 87506
SAME DAY, SAME LOCATION, BUT STARTING AT 5PM!
The community will also be setting up a table with volunteers to help those objecting to complete their forms. We will have copies of objection examples as well copies of election forms and pre-labeled envelopes to seal and complete individual packets. We also have a volunteer who will be hand carrying all completed packets to the Federal Court on Friday, April 4, 2014. These will get stamped and the individual will ask for receipts if possible. If you have received attachments of objection examples please print and please bring with your election form. The volunteers have paid for printing of objections for those that DO NOT have access to a computer/printer or are not on our email listing.
Also, there will be someone taking donations to pay for the legal cost of hiring a lawyer to file a motion to stay the April 7th deadline. Please help in any amount you can. This benefits ALL the community and although we understand that not all members can donate, please donate if you can and whatever amount you can. Checks can be made out to Lorenzo Atencio and list Aamodt Settlement as the donation on check memo.
In response to your requests, we've scheduled one more community meeting on the Aamodt Settlement before the April 7th deadline. Please come and we'll do our best to answer any still-unanswered questions you might have.
Thursday , April 3, 2014
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Frank B Lopez Gym (Pojoaque Middle School)
1574 New Mexico State Road 502 West, Santa Fe, 87506
SAME DAY, SAME LOCATION, BUT STARTING AT 5PM!
The community will also be setting up a table with volunteers to help those objecting to complete their forms. We will have copies of objection examples as well copies of election forms and pre-labeled envelopes to seal and complete individual packets. We also have a volunteer who will be hand carrying all completed packets to the Federal Court on Friday, April 4, 2014. These will get stamped and the individual will ask for receipts if possible. If you have received attachments of objection examples please print and please bring with your election form. The volunteers have paid for printing of objections for those that DO NOT have access to a computer/printer or are not on our email listing.
Also, there will be someone taking donations to pay for the legal cost of hiring a lawyer to file a motion to stay the April 7th deadline. Please help in any amount you can. This benefits ALL the community and although we understand that not all members can donate, please donate if you can and whatever amount you can. Checks can be made out to Lorenzo Atencio and list Aamodt Settlement as the donation on check memo.
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