Simi Valley City Council Excerpts – August 20, 2007
Becerra: “Correct.”
Behjan: “We went out. We had a lab tech from Pat-Chem labs, which was the lab that had done the testing that the residents had commissioned in May. That same lab tech took samples of water. He split them then into two containers. One went back to his lab, Pat-Chem, and one went to another lab so that there were two labs testing samples.”
Sidell: “But at the same time, KB was there and …”
Behjan: “Additionally KB had a consulting firm with them who also took samples in the same location and they did a report as well.”
Becerra: “So our samples were the same as the residents’ samples, collected by the same group? Not KB’s but ours.”
Behjan: “Collected by the same lab, yes.”
Becerra: “Okay, have we seen… our report is up on city’s website for everybody to review. Have we seen the report from the citizens’ second test?”
Sidell: “Laura, have you seen that?”
Becerra: “Has that been provided to the city?”
Behjan: “You mean the test they did in May?”
Becerra: “No no no — they took samples at the same time we did…”
Sidell: “Split samples.”
Becerra: “… we did. Did they conduct further tests…?”
Behjan: “No I have not seen that; I’m not aware of what they did with those.”
Becerra: “Can you check and see if theirs came back and I also would like to see what KB’s came back like. Obviously I’m more interested in what the residents and ours came back like because they are collected by the same person, from the same lab. But it would be, I would like to see what kind of comparison and if they came back with the same results, the same outcomes.”
Council Member Barbra Williamson: “And Glen, the KB person who took tests took it from exactly the same place too.”
Sidell: “Same place, same time.”
Williamson: “So there’s three different samples that were taken from the same place.”
Becerra: “Mr. Mayor, you were there during all that time when all those were collected?
Mayor Paul Miller: “Yeah.”
