It was a Barn Burner
For me Last nights meeting was short and to the point. I received a rambling incoherent letter from the City Attorney. I kicked off the public comment session with a short talk about the Council taki...
Tag Archives: Brown Act
Open Meetings Bill Offers Cease and Desist Solution
SB 1003 by Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) offers a way for local government bodies to avoid litigation by pledging to abandon meeting-related practices that prompt accusations of Brown Act viol...
Ralph M. Brown Act Amended To Require Cease And Desist Letter Before B...
Editors Note: I was asked why I issued a Cease and Desist Letter to the City of Twentynine Palms concerning the Warne Termination/retirement/resignation…… Well be cause it is now the law...
Executive Compensation and Brown Act Requirements
Hanson Bridgett LLP opined this little ditty: In the wake of the City of Bell executive compensation scandal, the Legislature has taken aggressive steps to protect against future abuse by gov...
What is a “closed session”?
There has been a bit of discussions concerning “Closed Sessions”, and I figured it is about time that everyone had a bit of a period of instruction of what it all means. This is an extract from the F...
Let’s Budget Nuaimi’s Termination for Fiscal 2012/2013.
Yucca Valley, Ca.,- Having been inspired by our neighbors to the east with the termination of their city manager, Richard Warne, I have been contacted by citizens asking the costs to terminate town m...
Its a Good Day for the People
“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a peo...
Council told to Void Guzetta Contract, Call for Public Hearing Tuesday...
“In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.” –George Mas...
Another shot across the bow for another Brown Act violation
I decided to step forward to call for an end to the continued violations of the Open Meetings rules codified in the Ralph M. Brown Act. This Morning, I as a former city council member and an eight ye...
Holding the Council’s feet to the fire: AB1344 and The Brown Act...
You know you are on the right track when other officials from local governments around the County are telling you that the Twentynine Palms City Council was wrong in their calling of special executiv...
Bob Leone Sets the Record Straight with The Sentinel
Robert Leone, who returned to the town council last month after a four-and-a-half year hiatus following a special election to choose resigned councilman Isaac Hagerman’s replacement, was unable to ge...
The Ugly Americans
Yucca Valley, CA – The sound and fury of in-fighting can be heard all across the Morongo Basin, and in the mean streets of Yucca Valley. The in-fighting is occurring during YV Town Council mee...
“Sky Harbor Four” PR Nightmare…Look for the Rabbit-o...
Yucca Valley, Ca., Pitch forks are the hot selling items at our local hardware store and with good reason. The “Sky Harbor Four” led by town manager, Mark Nuaimi, set in motion a series o...
Four Council Members Block Leone’s Appointments to Commissions
Yucca Valley, Ca.- The room was packed with citizens waiting to voice their concerns on the slashing of popular programs by Town Manager, Mark Nuaimi, which was agenda item #9. Young parents brought...