CCCoS - CONCERNED CITIZENS COALITION OF STOCKTON

Welcome to CCCoS!

CCCoS On July 17, 2007, the City of Stockton voted in closed session and announced they would rescind their appeal of Judge Humphreys' decision that the contract with OMI be canceled and operations returned to municipal control.

The City entered into a settlement agreement with Concerned Citizens that allowed the City until March 1, 2008, to complete the transition.

Within 30 days of the Effective Date of the agreement, the City paid a total of $1,975,000.00 in attorney fees and costs to Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP.

It is now time for the City to accept the Concerned Citizens offer to work as a team to help restore and rebuild MUD to a facility that the citizens can again be proud of.

Thank you to our many supporters. You have kept this issue before the public while the newspaper buried the story. YOU are the winners!

Sylvia Kothe, Chairperson, CCCoS
Dale Stocking, Liaison, Sierra Club
Diane Park, Liaison, League of Women Voters of San Joaquin County

Let us vote!

The picture above was from our early days (2002) when we demonstrated on City Hall steps for the council to let Stockton residents vote on the Concerned Citizen’s ballot initiative – one that would let them have a voice in whether they wanted their safe, affordable, public water system privatized.

Our initiative passed with a 60% margin, but too late! The Stockton City Council rushed to sign the contract just 13 days before the electoral ballots were cast. Their arrogance set the stage for the Concerned Citizens Coalition long legal battle to reclaim our community’s right to a public water system.

"A group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead