Who is helping SCVWD and who is paying for them?

When you really need to get that Parcel Tax approved by 67% of the voters go to the best, TBWB Strategies.

TBWB Strategies specializes in working with public agencies 

to design winning public finance measures for the ballot and working 

with communities to run the advocacy campaigns to ensure 

these measures are approved by voters.

The Santa Clara Water District used them in the 2000 Parcel Tax marketing effort,  Which while "legal" was considered misleading by the Santa Clara Grand Jury, excerpts from the report:

"The public was mislead on the true purpose of the special tax."

"The District learned from voter polling that “Our core issue – flooding –

barely resonated with voters.” Whereas “Voters did connect with

environment, clean water, healthy bay, trails.” Wording in the District

informational material emphasized environmental causes rather than

flood control"

The TBWB Strategies website says they have been working with Santa Clara Water District for an extended period. It appears Erica Walters, partner started support for SCVWD and more recently a team of Neetu Balram, Account Executive and Jared Boigon, Partner.

Some media coverage and info buried on the internet:

• Outside Mercenaries..............
• Peralta Community College TBWB contract, 2010
• ANAHEIM CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, TBWB page 6
• Los Gatos School District, 2012

The following shows Neetu Balram, Account Executive and Jared Boigon, Partner of TBWB Strategies are active participants when the beautiful and expensive brochure, Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection, was released, in July 2012: 


A—B—C (excerpt Refer to page 6)

Steve Abbors, Midpeninsula Regional
Open Space District
Braiden Albrecht, Stratus Consulting
Hon. Garnetta Annable, Santa Clara
County Open Space Authority
Director, District Four
Neetu Balram, TBWB Strategies
Bonnie Bamburg, member, Guadalupe
Flood Control and Watershed
Advisory Committee, Santa Clara
Valley Water District
Curtis Below of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin,
Metz & Associates
Ruth Bernstein, EMC Research, Inc.
Cindy Bitner, Kiwanis Club of DeAnza
Karl Bjarke, City of Morgan Hill
Helen Blain
Jared Boigon, TBWB Strategies

Further Jared Boigon presented to the SCVWD Board information on, "Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program" aka Measure B Parcel tax. The minutes indicated that his affiliation was TBWB Strategies. A "board agenda memo" was available, but wasn't online. Oops! Mr. Beau Goldie is this an example of the transparency you indicated in your NBC interview?

(Excerpt from meeting minutes SCVWD, 08/09/2012)
2. TIME CERTAIN:
9:00 a.m.

2.1 Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program Update and Related
Stakeholder Engagement. (R. Callender)

Recommendation:

A. Receive presentation regarding development of Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program; and Provide comments relative to the development of the Safe, Clean Water and Natural Flood Protection Program.

B. Mr. Rick Callender, Government Relations Unit, and Mr. Luis Jaimes, Senior Project Manager, Mr. David Metz, FM3, and Mr. Jared Boigon, TBWB Strategies, reviewed the information on this item, per the attached Board agenda memo.

The title deserves an award for packing the most "knee jerk" vote getters in a single title, Safe, Clean and Natural, TBWB has apparently out did their prior efforts, in 2000 to convince and mislead voters! 


You'll also notice that this results in some specific questions:

• What did SCVWD pay to TBWB for their services?
• What other services were purchased using "our" money to control our opinion? There were extensive polling, mailing and group meetings how much did these cost us.
• Was money donated to a third party group to fund some of the efforts and brochures, if so from what sources and how much?
• During what periods (years) has TBWB provide services, to SCVWD? From the references it appears from 1998 till at least 2012-this year.
• It's not obvious on the SCVWD annual reports where the funding, for TBWB and other marketing analysisgroups, is coming from?