I got this email and attachments yesterday afternoon…..
Subject: RE: Public Records Request… Twentynine Palms ROPS
From: Administrative Officer <Administrative.Officer@dof.ca.gov>
Date: Wed, October 03, 2012 5:41 pm
To: ‘Dan O’ <isp2@obtel.com>Dear Mr. O’Brien,The Department of Finance (Finance) received the following Public Records Act (PRA) request, dated September 23, 2012. In your request you specifically asked for the following information:Electronic copies of any letters of correspondence between the Department and the City of Twentynine Palms, The Successor Agency, or Oversight Board, and the Department of Finance concerning Project Phoenix, Bonds, ROPS for 2012-2013, exceptions, and or any request to the DOF for special Variances.Any and all letters, memos, or notations to any phone conversations, faxes physical meetings between the Department of Finance and City Manager Richard N. Warne, A. Patrick Munoz, Matt McCleary, members of the City Council or any other person claiming to be an official of the 29 Palms Successor Agency or City of 29 Palms directly or indirectly, pertaining to above requested information or the proposed corrections of deficiencies and Appeals that can be considered public record.Finance is complying to your request by providing all the responsive records (attached) we have identified that are not protected from disclosure by an applicable exception. Specifically for documents protected by attorney-client privilege (Evidence Code section 954), incorporated into Public Records Act via Government Code section 6254 (k).This response satisfies this PRA request, as well as the duplicate PRA requests submitted on September 28, 2012 and October 2, 2012.Attachments:
I would like to ask all of you to take the time and read through the above attached files. If after reading them you are not convinced that Project Phoenix is dead, dead, dead, and the Bond is a albatross and will effect our city budget for 30 years. Please, either put up evidence to the contrary or stop drinking the Kool-Aid.
Others here will break down the information provided by the Department of Finance to us to better explain all the information provided, but I thought it was important we get the raw information to you with no spin. You decide, have we been telling you the truth for the last year and a half?
The latest release of documents by the DoF is embarrassingly revealing that the City Manager and his legal counsel have not been as forthright to the City Council or the Citizens of our City.
I am not going to berate the Council nor try to spin something out of this, other than what the facts of reading the information self-evidently concludes.
Dan, Granted you got these on the 3rd of October, all of the letters are dated back in April. What has happened since then?
Well the council and a herd of city folks spent $8500 bucks to travel to Sacramento to try to persuade the DoF to go against the letter of the law and give 29 special dispensation to violate ABx 26 and look the other way on the bonds and lack of contracts. Is that what you wanted to know Newto29?
$8500.00 sounds to me like it was a frugal carpooling motel six and pay for your own meals kind of junket, hey if the citizens want a wasteful city they can have it. If they want closed door decisions made without the public oversight they can have it, if they want a council that scuffs at the law they can have, if they like the way the city stifles development to suit those that don’t want local shopping they can have it, if they want a town that chooses where to maintain roads based on your city connections they can have it, if they want a town that the code nazi has no problem sighting a property owner for a container on his property while looking at three other supposedly illegal containers (one of them on a council members lot) all the while he was righting the notice they can have it. If they want to live in a town where the city thinks the citizens are subjects instead of the constituents they could have it. If you drive through 29 and like what you see better go to the eye doc.
I want change; think I will be voting for Cora.
Newto29 You better be able to give a better political analysis than a “Thumbs Downs” and one liners with me….. Remember I know who you are.
That’s how I roll. Tongue hanging all the way out.
But seriously, the material sent to you was out dated by 6 months. Kinda may the story irrelevant. Where is the decision pages? The ones that said that weather the bonds where valid as an obligation?