Diane is not a politician she is your neighbor, and has been a part of Christian Valley for over 54 years.
Diane grew up here and saw a fledgling community blossom while riding horses and performing work in many forms of industry.
Her grounded and well-rounded approach to any subject serves her well as a potential public figure to help secure and positively affect our water supply, management systems, and communications thereof.
As a very vocal and active member of the water payee community for the last year, Diane fights to ensure we keep the “best drinking water in the state” and that we are not unjustly burdened with debt from administrative inefficiency which, fortunately or unfortunately, is the reason she felt compelled to communicate the not-so-transparent actions of the board to neighbors for the last year: effectively co-founding the Christian Valley Park Residents Coalition (CVPRC) in the process.
No one has so hotly contested the board's actions as much as Diane and the CVPRC associates.
She has investigated and brought forth a multitude of faux pas, and frankly, unlawful activities of the board, which include and are not limited to: initiating unlawful raises for themselves that permitted payments for meetings that exceeded 3x the legal limit (the law states a maximum of $100 per meeting and not to exceed 6 meetings per month, unless they hold a hearing, and a vote and it can not to exceed beyond of 5% per year yet, from 2012-2015 directors gave themselves a gift, by waiving their own water 'service fees', that equated to offsetting approx.$300/yr for those 3 years that non Board member rate payees would have to pay, and by doing it this way, they essentially avoided paying FICA payroll with holdings, hence by not reporting it as wages it subsequently was not reported in their W-2's.
This self gifting ride ended in 2015, when our General Manager was informed by the Auditor, that what they were doing was not lawful, and the Directors were to be issued a warning to stop the waivers, but rather than pay it back, they just turned around and gave themselves a raise in the annual budget, to replace the amount they just lost.
The CVPRC and Diane feel that the evidence supports that it is obvious, that the board has not been performing lawful and necessary financial due diligence when seeking funding for loans of water projects not adhering to lawfully required accounting practices breaches of fiduciary.
CVPRC, through their legal notice and attorney reviews, recently forced the Board to reduce their stipends.
- (See the Agenda for the October 13th, 2020 Board meeting and subsequent RESOLUTION 20-06 scheduled for adoption which supports this claim)
The Newly Amended Bylaws which were Passed in September are about to be adopted on October 13th 2020: thanks to these hard fought efforts by Diane and the CVPRC, which began in February of this year, going forward, all the future Board of Directors will have to ask 'the people', via district public hearings, and ultimately through your votes, to approve any future stipend raises!
- (Currently the CVPRC and Diane are still negotiating for an equitable restitution from the offending resigned individuals: and the incumbent candidates. The normal fiduciary indemnifications for Directors, through the District's funds, will NOT be accepted: Diane will make sure of it, whether elected or not.)
The reason those problems have or will be fixed is mostly in part due to Diane's inception.
Diane has a knack for understanding legalese, so she can effectively communicate with lawyers she also worked as banker and loan officer, so she can effectively communicate with business administrators of all kinds she also has a strong equestrian and cattlemen background, so she can effectively communicate with any hard-working, blue-collar, 'shoot-it-to-me-straight', no nonsense person.
Moreover, she is also mature enough to relate to those who are retired and are on limited incomes that do not permit rate increases to a commodity of human right. Again, she is your neighbor (on Gayle lane), and her actions have shown selflessness and priority to do what is best for the community.
Ironically, some do not see it that way, as feelings have clearly gotten in the way of facts when it comes to Diane's interactions with the board. She has another clear knack for ruffling feathers to, of some weak-minded bureaucrats, as 3 board members have resigned within the past 9 months, 2 of them (who just happened to belong to the same household) mostly in part due to the pressure Diane applies when someone is doing something illegal or immoral. That pressure being: the law. And it is one thing to know the law, it is another to apply the law toward fixing ailments, healing, and moving forward as best as possible. Diane does that she can not only spot problems, but she also has the sensibility and discernment to offer solutions and implement real, everlasting fixes that the community can be proud of. Moreover, earning and keeping public trust is of top priority to her.
Diane has already been working for free to improve District efficiency, as an administrative assistant volunteer.
She did not know how to build-out a website, but she volunteered to learn, and has been a pivotal contributor finding grant funding for the website, saving the District thousands of dollars in the process of acquiring and building out the newly unveiled www.christianvalley.org, being designed to have full transparency of the board's actions, and also has our District operating within the legally required 508 ADA compliance levels.
Needless to say, Diane has parlayed all of her many skills into a situation that suits her well as a non-politician. Diane has done what she does with everything, continue learning and being good at what she does.
Please choose her skills and her heart, filled with compassion, to serve you, the people of Christian Valley Park fully:
Associates of the CVPRC asks you to please cast your Vote For Diane-Louise: Alessi to the CVPCSD Board of Directors.
