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
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