Comments on: Krizl seeks reelection to Georgetown Divide PUD board

By: Robert from ALT, Cool, CA

Robert from ALT, Cool, CA — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:31:05 +0000

I did a search for Norm and just this from the article on the august 21 GDPUD special meeting: A board member, Norm Krizl, yelled at Kathy Otermat, “We don’t care about your job!”. Which brings me to a subject I’ve been trying to find the answer to: Does Norm Krizl even work? He’s listed as owner/manager of Krizl Vineyard but is this a hobby or a business? Does anyone know the answer to this? I understand he married into a wealthy family so he can just slack off. Any information from Norm or any reliable source would be appreciated. If this is true then the voters need to know this. This may account for his blase attitude re: rate increases. If it doesn’t hurt his pocketbook how can relate with working folks like me who doesn’t have the same benefits as GDPUD employees. I have no health care. This economy has greatly affected me and my family so I will vote for a new director who will represent the public. Norm had his chance and has voted for every rate increase and has never asked GDPUD employees to take a hit as every other gvt. agency employee has.

By: Dink Lane

Dink Lane — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:18:11 +0000

Where are Norms supporters? The only supporters I see are the Editor and this reporter Dawn. wow, what is that saying?

By: Tammy from Garden Valley

Tammy from Garden Valley — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:31:56 +0000

How dare Norm makes the statement re: Director Otermat re: “nobody every heard of and nobody knows”. It’s just another display of his arrogant attitude. I remember Kathy well for years including her presence at community events when she had her newspaper. I knew the name Krizl mostly because he lost his bid to be a supervisor, but now that I do know more about Norm, the more I know the less I like. “Hank’s done a fantastic job” says Norm. Fantastic in getting his salary doubled. Fantastic in being totally unprofessional in how he pouts like a baby if a Director asks for information or answers. Fantastic in rallying unthinking gullible people like Krizl and Neeley to protect him, Fantastic in wasting our money on abandoned treatment plants, lying to the public (listen to the Sept. audio where he admits there was no denial from the state for a retrofit, it was “his” (Hanks) belief they would deny it”, lying to employees (yes all this Kathy is hostile message is not at meetings but from Hanks mouth to employees – my friend who works there tells me the crap Hank tells employees and even secretly recorded Hank and I heard it with my own ears!). Luckily Hank and Norm are being exposed by the two new directors for what they are and Hank and Norm are being mean, vicious and hostile in return while the ladies are cool, calm and gaining support from people like me who didn’t know what the issues were at GDPUD but am taking the time to learn. I hope anyone who can vote on the GDPUD director ballots do the same. I think it’s time to continue what we started in 2010 – No More Incumbents!

By: Kathy Otermat

Kathy Otermat — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:03:17 +0000

Once again Norm make statements that are untruthful…”Otermat came out of the blue. I never met her before she ran. That’s what seems a little odd to me that someone who has not been active in the community and nobody knows is all of sudden the expert on how horrible the GDPUD is.” I never met Norm (or GM Hank White for that matter) before I ran. Before I was elected, I was on the Board of the Divide Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Georgetown Merchants Association, a member of the Georgetown Sesquicentennial (150th) Founder’s Day committee, I purchased and ran the Divide Harvester in 1995 to become more involved with the community providing the first color newspaper on the Divide, I was a member of the Georgetown Activities Committee that started the Dinner/Auction fundraiser that later became the Rotary Dinner/Auction. Since being elected, I’ve become a KFOK volunteer broadcaster and am on the Pride of the Mountains Car Show Committee. Not only have I been active on the Divide I continue to volunteer for organizations I became involved with long before I moved to Georgetown in 1992 including St. Hope Academy in Sacramento, Tracy St. Bernard’s Parochial School and Tracy Chamber of Commerce. I can only try to follow the examples my parents gave me by their active volunteerism in their community… but I guess Norm didn’t know me, I wasn’t active? There are so many comments in his interview I can comment on but the only comment I’ll address was his “Otermat has not been active in the community”. I’ll continue to keep Board business in the Board Room. As B. Keegan recommended, I too recommend that voters listen to board meeting audio files at flushthewaste.com. Thank you to the community for all the support you have given me.

By: B. Keegan, Pilot Hill

B. Keegan, Pilot Hill — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:15:06 +0000

I have listened to every GDPUD meeting audio at least twice since Otermat and McLane were elected.I firmly believe GDPUD ratepayers need a fresh pair of eyes, and continue to vote out the members of the good old boys club like they did when they voted out the similiarly arrogant Bob Diekon and Mike Cooper in 2010. Krizl only cares about Krizl and by protecting the GM, he is protecting what has happened under his watch. He does not verify information and assumes no one will validate what information he provides. Krizl continiuously calls Dir. Otermat “hostile”. Please voters listen to the meeting audio files on flushthewaste.com! Norm is the the hostile jerk, the way he talks to Otermat. He called her “petty” for wanting documented GM evaluations. Really – them GMs salary started at $80K and is now $250K including benefits without ANY written evaluations. Is that a good way to watch out for your constituents fiscal interests Norm? Absolutely NOT! He can lose his temper in meetings like a macho jerk, for example in the August 21 special meeting with the conjured up charges by employees in Hanky Panky’s pocket, Dolores Barron and Stephanie Beck, Krizl tells Otermat “I don’t care about your job!” Well to my fellow citizens that are ore on fixed incomes, Norm doesn’t even HAVE A JOB and has voted for every rate Hank since he was sworn in. A hobbiest wine grower does not a job make, NORM! Yes, GDPUD is has been in a deficit but Norm incorrectly states there’s never been a deficit since who knows when. This is absolutely incorrect voters, go to Pat Snellings protectrwater.com and Maria Capraun’s maria4gdpud.com for more facts about GDPUD’s current financial and historical status. Yes, the lunches stopped after two directors were voted in to watch and question GDPUD financials. Norm partipated in lunches with quorums for YEARS!! He says the Brown Act does not prohibit unless business is discussed. Well some receipts say “board meeting” and “board meeting wrapup”. That’s pretty much a smoking gun for the attitudes of the past status quo good old boy directors which also included participation by Bonnie Neeley. I am so disgusted that Bonnie Neeley ran on lowering excessive salaries and benefits and make a 180% change in what she promised in her campaign once elected. Time to vote these two directors who have no clue on what the public wants in their directors. It is absolutely a director’s job to ask for information, verify information and make informed decisions. Yes voters, listen to board audio files to hear Norm Krizl say, “I trust the GM, I don’t need to see any information on the new treatment plant!”. Fire these bums!

By: Jack Podsedly

Jack Podsedly — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:11:16 +0000

Otermat is trying to get rid of General Manager Hank White, Krizl said. “But Hank’s done a fantastic job. He has been with us for 10 years.
This pretty much says it all. The manager has been running the board for 10 years. I am ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHED that he still supports the manager that lied through the whole process about our 2 treatment plant updates. He blames Bonnie McClain and Kathy Otermat for all of the districts troubles. Right after Bonnie and Kathy got elected, the board quit meeting for lunch after the board meetings, paid by the district!!! Maybe if Bonnie and Kathy came to the meals and drank the Koolade with Norm, they would feel better about corruption also. I do not know why Norm is selling out the community. I kept thinking that he would see all of the problems and change his vote. I thought that Norm cared about the community. He needs to resign.

By: yuk

yuk — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:03:09 +0000

Krizl couldn’t have paid for a better front page smear piece.

By: gdpud voters deserve better than krizl

gdpud voters deserve better than krizl — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:06:00 +0000

Norm Krizl is griping about hostility? What a hypocrite!
Listen to Norm Krizl’s vicious true colors shown at the August special Board meeting when he politically and viciously attacked ratepayer advocate and director Kathy Otermat for something she absolutely did not do. Next, listen to Norm Krizl’s recent KFOK radio interview and hear him falsely claim that GDPUD hasn’t run deficits at year end. Then go look at the truth found in GDPUD’s official budget and find that GDPUD regularly runs $100,000 annual deficits and projects to again and again do so for each the next three years.
Next, note that General Manager Hank White’s $250,000 compensation package, by itself, accounts for 10% of GDPUD’s $2.5 million annual rates. White’s compensation has more than doubled in the past eight years thanks to huge salary and benefit increases voted by good buddy Norm Krizl. (White’s $250,000 annual compensation is 20% higher than EID’s General Manager even though GDPUD has 90% fewer water customers than EID.) Also note that Krizl further objects that Hank White be subjected to documented annual performance reviews and be graded on such fundamental GM performance criteria as spending control without deficits and telling the truth to the Board and the ratepayers.
On November 5th, give a vote FOR GDPUD ratepayers, FOR Kathy Otermat’s financial scrutiny movement, and AGAINST Norm Krizl’s special interest, “look the other way” agenda. VOTE FOR CIVILITY, VOTE YOUR WALLET… VOTE PAT SNELLING for GDPUD Division 5!

By: Wake up GDPUD rate payers!

Wake up GDPUD rate payers! — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:22:19 +0000

Norm is full of it. Don’t believe the words of a man who feels that he does not need any information to be on the Board and does not read his Board packets until the day of the meeting. The last 5 employees did not leave because of the Board, but for different reasons. One left because of medical issues and stated it was because of a board member, this employee has personal issues with one director not related to the District. One left because she wanted more time with her husband but stated it was a board member and the other 3 just flat out retired. None of the Board members are out to get any of the employees. If Norm read his board packets he would have know that GDPUD is not financial doing well. If Norm had read the last packet he would have known that the GM was not truthful to the Board or the Public. If Norm had paid attention he would know that he is over charging the rate payers. If Norm was an honest man he would have paid the District back for all the lunches and that $420 meal that the District paid for him and his wife to have dinner at a very fine dining place. A vote for Norm is a vote to keep GDPUD in the wrong direction. Reading the article Norm is full of hate for the two board members mentioned. This needs to stop and he is not the answer.