Alleged cover up, SB RDA implicated
SAN BERNARDINO SUN | By By Ryan Carter - Former San Bernardino RDA official sues city The city’s former chief financial officer for its now-defunct Redevelopment Agency has filed a lawsuit ...
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League of California Cities, a friend or foe of the public?
COMMENTARY The ordinary residents of the Morongo Basin are freedom loving people who want local government and public official to conduct the people’s business in the open. They believe in the creed ...
Oversight Committee Meeting: It may not be over, attorney conflicts an...
The Board desperately needs another attorney to represent their interests. I believe a couple of members are beginning to recognize this. Board Member David Price: “My counsel says we need to be very...
Department of Finance Denies RDA Loan to Fontana by SB County
Fontana, Ca.,- The California Department of Finance are a knowledgeable team sitting in the driver’s seat to look at requests for payments by the 400 dissolving RDAs, Redevelopment Agencies. I ...
Department of Finance……”Under Penalty of Perjury and...
Yucca Valley, Ca,-The Department of Finance is unwinding the 400 RDA, Redevelopment Agencies, by allowing the Towns and Cities to send their claims of ROPS, Recognized Payment Obligations, with some ...
Should Nuaimi be Terminated for Cause? Public Opinion Poll…Cast ...
Yucca Valley, Ca.- OPINION- This is the start of a New Year. Let us move forward to an era of transparency of our local government driven by local Blogs and citizen watchdog reporters. The Town hired...
Yucca Valley Gets the “No-No Nuaimi” Notice from the State...
Yucca Valley, Ca.-On November 13, 2012, Town Manager Mark Nuaimi went to Sacramento to “Meet and Confer” with the California Department of Finance to discuss the denials issued to the Tow...
Jewish Temple Deal Struggling
The city may have failed to find a use for the vacant Jewish Temple property purchased by the redevelopment agency for $1.4 million and now selling for a million dollars less.
The Smoking Gun: Is our Council being held Hostage?
We know we have two and possibly three Councilmen being held hostage at the hands of City Manager Richard N. Warne and his hired guns RSG and Rutan and Tucker. Tuesday’s Council Meeting was can...
When is an Award an Award?
At last Tuesday’s city council meeting where the proposed City budget was examined and rejected by the council there was a point during public comments where one citizen stood up to speak in s...
A Fool’s Errand: The 8th Appeal to the Department of Finance
Well in the continuing saga of Project Phoenix and the Bonds to nowhere. This is the latest email sent to me this evening by the Department of Finance. ——– Original Message —&...
State gets the Belt Out on Disobedient Sucessor Agencies
While sugar plums were dancing through the heads of our civic leaders AB 1484 was passed and signed by Governor Brown last night. AB 1484, a bill to clean up and close the loopholes created during t...
City Manager told to Get his Act Together
Rebecca Unger of the Desert Trail Reports: After four hours and 420 pages, the city council vowed at its meeting of Tuesday, June 26, to return to reviewing the 2012/13 draft budget at its next meeti...
No kidding…. Project Phoenix Funding is Taken By State, Its Over...
No matter what the City Manager is going to tell you next week as he attempts to put the best spin on this humiliating defeat of the City of Twentynine Palms’ plans of a grandiose Taj Mahal and...