Municipal Lawyers
Nov. 6, 2013
Michael G. Colantuono
Colantuono & Levin PC Los Angeles and Penn Valley Specialties: conflicts of interest, constitutional law, elections law, land use regulation, Local Agency Formation Commission issues, municipal litigation, open meetings law, public finance, utilities




The Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency, created in 1984 to help alleviate overdraft of the area's groundwater basins, still needed to meet the water needs of the coastal areas. So in 2010, it decided to ask residents - in an election by mail - if they would pay increased so-called groundwater augmentation charges to cover the additional costs.
After the vote passed, local tax watchdog Harold Griffith, who had in the past taken on Pajaro Valley over its wa...
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