High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags, Part Three: How Garza’s JPA Contract Renewal Vacated His Central Basin Water Seat Under G.C. 1099

High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags, Part Three: How Garza’s JPA Contract Renewal Vacated His Central Basin Water Seat Under G.C. 1099

By Brian Hews Publisher | Follow X December 19, 2025 Two weeks ago, Los Cerritos Community News launched High Stakes, Dirty Water, Red Flags, a multi-part investigative series revealing that for more than four years Central Basin Director Juan Garza quietly operated the California Cities for Self-Reliance Joint Powers Authority (JPA), a taxpayer-funded agency, through Bellflower-based Six Heron, his privately owned public-relations and governmen…