Regarding Jay Hagen’s letter, “Time for change at water district”: I am one of the last, if not the last, original member of the Board of Trustees of the Cross Valley Water Association, a private water company. I held office as the secretary of the board from the inception of the association. Hagen’s father was never a director nor a member of the board of the Cross Valley Water Association. If his father was a director, he was a director or member of the Marsh Land Water Association.
The Cross Valley Association grew rapidly and approximately in the 1970s, the Marsh Land Association asked Cross Valley to take over their association. In 1990, the stockholders of the Cross Valley association voted to adopt the state water district governance. This meant that they would abide by state law and be subject to annual state audits. By adopting this business structure, each residence or business had to provide its own water meter and paid the same overage rate.
As your readers are probably aware, Mr. Hagen has created numerous problems for himself by applying a different standard to his situation as opposed to the rest of the Cross Valley members. (August 2014 article, “Snohomish farmer, water district spar over $11,000 charge.”) The Cross Valley Water District has maintained a policy of high level performance, cost constraints, and equal treatments of its customers. Unlike his comment of returning the “…CVWD back to the people…,” the district has never lost sight of its customers or its responsibilities.
Dale H. Deierling
Retired Cross Valley Water District Commissioner
Snohomish
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