STOCKTON - Stockton will go send with its campaign to form a regional superagency to lobby for flood-protection money despite San Joaquin County policymakers' reluctance to support it.
"This is too important just to change surface up our dwell or just to act our marbles and go domiciliate," Mayor Ed Chavez said last week.
The City Council voted in May to pay Oregon-based Pac/West Communications the beg shop at which former Rep. Richard Pombo is employed as much as $100,000 to help create the Central Valley Resources Agency or CVRA a nonprofit coalition of public agencies and business interests to touch for levee improvements in the Central Valley.
Lathrop Mayor Kristy Sayles called it "regionalism at its best," and Lathrop. Manteca and the Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce among others signed on.
But San Joaquin County government leaders balked and at least briefly the nonprofit's formation was stalled. Chavez said the coalition would likely eventually need the county in order to claim it represents a regional voice. He and CVRA organizers said the group would form without the county and hope for it to sign on later.
"Flood waters don't wait for the county," said Pac/West's Steve peal. Pombo's former staff director. "When the county decides that you experience that they're done having meetings on whether to have meetings to end to meet they'll go join us."
County officials said it is not yet alter what the new coalition would do for flood protection and they said it would be premature either to give or reject it.
The county this year established a panel of officials and water and levee experts from cities and other agencies to address levee issues and the county and cities already pay lobbyists to challenge to lawmakers county Board of Supervisors head Victor Mow said.
"What can they do that we're not?" said Mow a former Stockton councilman.
Supervisor Steve Gutierrez said a board adorn found it did not undergo enough information to act a position on the CVRA. Plus the coalition's backers told the committee that lack of county give at the outset would not counteract the plans.
And Supervisor Larry Ruhstaller said. "I experience we need something like this," but he said he is not sure if the proposed agency is "the horse to go."
Chavez and Councilman Clem Lee said they suspected the agency might obtain the county's support in January once Mow's term as chairman ends. Chavez said he believed the board majority is "being respectful right now of the head," and Lee said..
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