Amador County – The Amador Water Agency at the end of April sought a water and wastewater sub-element in the Amador County General Plan. And last week, an AWA board member offered her board president and vice president to work on that element. District 4 AWA board member Debbie Dunn made the offer during the county general plan panel’s Wednesday discussion of the “Economic Development Element.” General Manager Jim Abercrombie said Dunn was not appointed by the board to deliver an address or message to the General Plan panel. He said the discussion at a previous AWA board meeting centered on Board President Terence Moore (District 5) and Vice President Bill Condrashoff (District 1) volunteering to go through the Calaveras County general plan’s new “water element.” Abercrombie said he thought the things Dunn said to the board, though not authorized by the board, were things the board would offer and support. In an April 28th letter to Supervisor Chairman Ted Novelli, Abercrombie said “the AWA board discussed and specifically supported the inclusion of adding a sub-element to the general plan’s economic element that addresses both water and wastewater issues.” The letter requested that the county “prepare this sub-element during the general plan update,” and “requested that the county respond back in writing to this request.” Dunn in a letter to the county panel last week said “as discussed by the board at the Amador Water Agency, our president, vice president and staff will create this sub-element by extrapolating the existing goals and policies on water and wastewater scattered throughout the current revision of the update.” County Planner Susan Grijalva said the joint panel of Amador County Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission “will decide if it’s going to be included, and if it is, what policies it will have,” she said. Grijalva said the AWA president and vice president will see if those documents contain “anything the want to incorporate into the Amador sub-element. They will “then turn it over to the county to be reviewed.” Dunn said the Amador County Joint Water Committee, including Amador Supervisors Novelli and John Plasse and AWA board executives Moore and Condrashoff, will review the sub-element June 29th, then take a recommendation to the Amador joint panel at its next meeting, 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, July 8th. Grijalva said “from there, we’re starting the environmental review process.” Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.