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Ed Archuletta's Contract/More Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge
Posted: November 4th, 2008, 10:11am EST
This is a blog about Ed Archuletta's Half a Million Dollar a year "public servant" taxpayer paid salary. Mr. Archuletta is the head of the El Paso Water Utility, aka the Public Service Board (PSB). The El Paso Water Utility is one of the wealthiest water utilities in the nation holding about 28,000 acres of land. It sits in one of the poorest counties in the country and he who controls the water utility controls the price and development of land. The PSB is a division of the city, regardless of what anyone says. Ed Archuletta has been the manager of the water utility for over 20 years now. Under his reign, we have seen El Paso become an oven hot, cemented in nightmare, and water rates have become so high people are afraid to take baths. I haven't even touched on the fraud that is Ed Archuletta's monument to himself at taxpayer expense, our multi-million dollar desalination plant that is operating at less than 1% capacity. The politics of water is just that, Politics. When Ray Caballero was mayor, he declared, with the full support of Ed Archuletta, a drought and decreed that no one could water their yard for more than 2 hours a WEEK! This was really an effort to control the price of land and its development disguised as "drought control." Several months later, Caballero lost his bid for re-election against Joe Wardy. Joe Wardy took office and lifted the watering ban. And then lo and behold Ed Archuletta did a complete volte-face and declared that there was enough water until the second coming of Christ. And not one drop of rain had fallen. Recently, Archuletta has gone to city council and asked that they impose an "impact fee" which would be a tax added to the price of a new home. This in turn would make it harder for first time home owners to get a home. This in turn would mean that fewer homes would be built meaning fewer people working. El Paso ratepayers also have to pay a new storm water fee to pay for water run off. This fee/tax has amounte ..