<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35615" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/05/07/82892/gov-brown-accused-of-violating-open-meeting-laws-i/" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35856">https://www.scpr.org/news/2018/05/07/82892/gov-brown-accused-of-violating-open-meeting-laws-i/</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35913"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35941"><br></div><h6 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 169.5625px; font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, 'Avenir Next', Avenir, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(137, 137, 137); width: 636.640625px; font-size: 18px; text-transform: uppercase; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35734">ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE</h6><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 169.5625px; font-family: abril-titling, Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 60px; font-size: 54px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; color: rgb(15, 22, 32); width: 636.640625px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35735">Gov. Brown accused of behind-the-scenes manipulation in vote of water tunnel project</h3><figure style="margin: 0px 0px 30px 169.5625px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; width: 636.640625px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, 'Avenir Next', Avenir, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35736"><img src="https://a.scpr.org/i/8559e9d49130619a87e50beabb2d43fc/133710-full.jpg" alt="FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016, file photo, water flows through an irrigation canal to crops near Lemoore, Calif." title="California Water" role="img" aria-label="California Water" data-assethost="" data-ah-videoid="" style="display: block; max-width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background-size: cover; min-height: 0px; width: 636.640625px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; padding-top: 424.421875px; background-image: url(https://a.scpr.org/i/8559e9d49130619a87e50beabb2d43fc/133710-full.jpg); background-position: center center;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35737" data-id="3b15e407-7848-b1cd-dee7-abc1a37dd60e"><figcaption style="color: rgb(137, 137, 137); display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin-top: 13px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35738">FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2016, file photo, water flows through an irrigation canal to crops near Lemoore, Calif.<address style="color: rgb(49, 171, 212); display: inline-block; font-style: normal; text-transform: uppercase; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35739">RICH PEDRONCELLI/AP</address></figcaption></figure><div style="transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; color: rgb(137, 137, 137); font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; margin-left: 169.5625px; width: 636.640625px; font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, 'Avenir Next', Avenir, Arial, sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35740"><span style="transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; color: rgb(49, 171, 212); font-weight: 700;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35741"><a href="https://www.scpr.org/about/people/staff/sharon-mcnary" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35742">Sharon McNary</a></span> <span style="transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; color: rgb(232, 232, 232); margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35743">|</span> <span style="transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; display: inline-block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35744"><time datetime="2018-05-07T20:21:00-07:00" style="display: inline-block; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35745">May 7, 2018</time></span></div><hr style="margin: 31.5px 0px 31.5px 169.5625px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(232, 232, 232); border: 0px; display: inline-block; min-height: 1px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; width: 636.640625px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, 'Avenir Next', Avenir, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35746"><aside style="transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, 'Avenir Next', Avenir, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35747"></aside><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35615"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, 'Avenir Next', Avenir, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35748"></span></div><div style="transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; margin-left: 169.5625px; width: 636.640625px; color: rgb(54, 54, 54); display: inline-block; font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, 'Avenir Next', Avenir, Arial, sans-serif; overflow: hidden; font-size: 18px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35749"><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 22px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 0;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35750">Two nonprofit groups are accusing Gov. Jerry Brown of improperly working with Metropolitan Water District board directors behind the scenes to put pressure on a key vote for a massive water tunnel project.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 1;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35751">The groups claim board members violated open meeting laws as they pressed for a yes on a massive project to move water from tunnels under the Sacramento Bay Delta. The accusations potentially call , call into question a recent vote moving the project forward.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 2;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35752">That vote by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California authorized spending up to $11 billion to build two tunnels.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 3;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35753">Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the governor, said late Monday that "it's clear these folks are grasping at straws."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 4;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35754">Ferguson said Brown, who has long pushed for this project, urged all board members to support it in a letter sent to them the day before the vote.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 5;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35755">The groups alleging violations, claim some of MWD's directors communicated privately among themselves about the Delta Tunnels vote before it was taken. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 6;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35756">California law requires public boards to deliberate in public at official meetings. It bars them from convening small groups that can add up to a majority of the vote to decide in advance how to vote.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 7;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35757">And they also say Brown improperly acted as an intermediary when he made calls to some MWD directors on behalf of other directors.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 8;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35758">Gov. Brown has long counted on the project to be a key part of his legacy. His office said the governor considers the project to be a critical step in modernizing the state's water system.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 9;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35759">The two groups making the accusation are the nonprofit First Amendment Coalition and the environmental group Food and Water Watch. They wrote to MWD officials Monday.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 10;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35760">Brett Barbre, who is named by the groups, is a board from Orange County. He said Monday there geographical component to the opposition.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 11;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35761">"San Diego’s last ditch effort to stop the twin tunnels," he wrote in an email.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 30px; font-size: 1.125rem; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; order: 12;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35762">MWD officials said they would on comment on the threat litigation.</div><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; font-size: 22px; text-transform: uppercase; order: 13;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35763">READ BROWN'S LETTER:</h3><div style="transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in-out; opacity: 1; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px; order: 14;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1525794649863_35764"><div 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