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If this isn’t an indication that this is the End of Redevelopment, the founder of RSG, Inc the morons Consultants that have been telling our City Council to fight the State and sue the Department of Finance is Bailing out, jumping ship, and flying the coup. No surer example of …. its over when its over… Hey Larry? La Quinta hires new city manager The La Quinta City Council hired a new city manager Tuesday night. Frank Spevacek, 58, begins the new job in June. He will make $195,000 annually...
A quick note to folks who have been backing the change to the Peddling and Vending laws in Twentynine Palms. After 7 Months and as many hearings and study sessions a new Ordnance was hammered out last night. The new tough law is now on to the Full Council for approval. I would like to thank those that have supported Fay and I through this. Maybe you will be able to see our food cart in town regularly and as a fixture of the business community.
This morning Gary Daigneault has reported on KCDZ-FM that Warne has commissioned yet another Appeal to the Department of Finance to pay for Project Phoenix. It swings from ridiculous to sublime, as the Staff and contract consultants of the City of 29 Palms seem to make it clear that their loyalty is not to the people of 29 Palms but to the revenue stream of the now defunct Redevelopment agency. The Department has repeatedly stated in letters and emails to the city’s Manager, Attorney and this RSG bunch that (DoF wrote...
Hundreds of California cities are undertaking the painful process of dissolving their redevelopment agencies. But they need to win the state’s assent before they can pay their remaining bills. State finance officials are challenging about a third of the roughly $1 billion in redevelopment expenses city officials here in Alameda say they need to pay, but city staffers said they will continue to press their case. “They’re taking kind of a very hard line of what it means to be under contract,” the City of Alameda’s Debbie Potter said...
Baker, CA– On Thursday, 5/10/2012 at approximately 4:00 PM, a hiker flagged down the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Resident Deputy Sheriff out of Baker in the area of Nipton Road and Interstate 15. The hiker directed the deputy to where a human skull was found in the Mojave National Preserve. On Friday, 5/11/2012, the Sheriff’s Homicide Detail and Coroner Division responded to the scene to conduct the investigation. The remains do not appear to be historical. An examination will be conducted at a later date for possible cause...
This Project Phoenix Bond Scam thing has consumed a huge hunk of time over the last couple of years and disrupted lives of the City Council, Staff, A. Patrick Munoz, and the Bloggers here at CactusThorns. The present Council took a solvent, and well healed city with a reserve of several Million dollars in banks on a 2 year game of 3-Card Monty. Redevelopment was a $1.5 Million dollar a year slush fund that had been contributing to puffed up salaries, lavish junkets for Council and Staff and a huge war...
APPLE VALLEY – Congressional candidate Brad Mitzelfelt received a significant boost today in his campaign for the new 8th Congressional District as a majority of the elected Town Council of Apple Valley is now endorsing the First District Supervisor to replace the retiring Jerry Lewis. Supervisor Mitzelfelt has earned my support because of his accomplishments on behalf of the entire Victor Valley and desert region, said Councilman Scott Nassif, who is also a local business owner. Brad has proven himself as a regional leader in transportation, economic development, public safety...
I received the below email from our request to DOF in accordance with the California Public Records Act. For the THIRD TIME…. Project Phoenix is OVER!!! Done, dead finished. From: Suess, Evelyn Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 2:30 PM To: mmccleary@webrsg.com Subject: RE: Twentynine Palms Successor Agency Response to DOF Letter Mr. McCleary, I’m responding to your email below dated May 3. Please see my comments in red font. Thanks, Evelyn Suess Auditor/Evaluation Supervisor|California Department of Finance |É916.322-2285 Ext. 3179| - 300 Capitol Mall, Ste. 801, Sacramento, CA 95814 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication with its contents...
Its obvious that the City of Twentynine Palms does not want to hear your input on the issue of the dissolution of the former Redevelopment Agency. But the Oversight board I am told does. Here is your opportunity to tell the Oversight Board what you feel about the issues, that include the Bonds, Project Phoenix or any other proposed Obligation that taxpayers might be burdened with because of the former RDA. We are not going to give you the email addresses of the Oversight Board but what we will do is...
I have been reading Mr. Munoz’s letter to the Department of Finance and find that it falls way short of supporting the City’s belief that the Bonds are tied to Project Phoenix or that Project Phoenix would be even considered a viable candidate for being listed as an Obligation on the ROPS. It is not even remotely close to shovel ready and no construction bids have ever be put out to bid, nor a single construction contract signed. It is all blue sky. Mr. Munoz hangs his argument of...
On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at approximately 8:26 a.m., deputies from Victorville Station responded to a suspicious circumstances call in the area of Hesperia Rd. near Sunset Ave. The caller reported dead body was found at that location. Deputies arrived on scene and confirmed there was a deceased adult male, white or Hispanic, approximately 30 to 50 years of age. The deceased was dressed in female clothing, with a tattoo of a diamond above each eyebrow and a tattoo on his right cheek that appears to be a number....
I feel like Sally Fields at the Oscars…. You like me…. you really like me.. Its a shock to find one day you come to a City Council Meeting and people actually gathered around me instead of the usual… “move away from the trouble maker… move along nothing to see here.” The council meeting for me was a real blast. I know the Council felt a little uncomfortable and those Lawyers looked like the were waiting for the tar and feathers, but hey, I had a great time. I got slaps...
Not even Senator Dutton’s RDA Bond fix will save us from doom. The effective date of the Bonds here is on or before December 31, 2010. Ours were approved in March of 2011. SB 986 (Dutton) Redevelopment: bond proceeds. Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies, as defined. Existing law requires that successor entities perform certain duties, including, among others, remitting unencumbered funds of that agency to the county auditor-controller, and overseeing the use of...
Few things can unite a town. Natural disasters, a fire, a baby down a well can all be the things that bring us together but also a whole town is united when it is snookered by its own political elite. Anyone who has followed the demise of the Redevelopment Agencies pretty much understands that the Fat Lady Sang on projects not in the construction phase. Well everyone except our local political establishment. We now find out that our leaders floated a bond that has no purpose nor do we have the ability to spend the...
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Margo can you verify the list???? Either the list of 72 or the short list. It should be a public ...
Happy Trails, Buckaroo
I would say what ever the fair market value is.....
One of the directives from the DOF is to sell the RDA's assets as soon as possible and get the ...
Alligators to the right of me.... Crocodiles to the left... A charging rhino to the rear.
Amen to that Brother. I just can not believe the staff at the city now - there is no simplicity at ...
It's a very small step in my opinion. My intent was to use the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) method and ...
That's funny!
Mark.... do you ever read the articles attached or do as I suspect you use the "Leave a Reply" feature ...
Larry I agree it will be drawn out, we won't know how or where thing are going to fall as ...
Well the more that Schools and the Hospital District realize that the money they leave on the table at the ...
The game ain't over till it's over
The game ain't over till it's over
Yehhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Oops, that should have been: Dan should *join* the Chamber of Commerce.