Tag Archives: redevelopment agencies

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Fraud Alleged – At Desert Hot Springs

April 30, 2013
Desert Hot Springs, CA– When the city handed off $1.4 million to purchase the Jewish Temple on Pierson Boulevard, the city manager did order a structural inspection of the buildings. A few week...
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Lawmaker tries to revive redevelopment agencies

April 27, 2013
Lawmakers are considering a bill that could resurrect the state of California’s defunct redevelopment agencies. Assembly Bill 1080, introduced by Democrat Luis Alejo of Salinas, would establish speci...
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New Bill to Address RDA Signage, SB 684

February 24, 2013
The League of Cities and the California Sign Association are co-sponsoring a bill, SB 684 (Hill), which will address an unintended consequence of the elimination of redevelopment related to signage i...
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What to Do, What to Do, What to Do?

May 10, 2012
What do you do as an elected official when it becomes crystal clear that you have been given bad advice by individuals that are paid handsomely to give you good advice? One can and does understand mi...

Twentynine Palms Bond blitz carries a big cost

November 14, 2011
“Targeted for extinction and running out of time, California’s redevelopment agencies earlier this year embarked on a wave of costly borrowing unequaled in their history.”  SacBee: Agencies’ bo...
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29 Palms RDA Not Much To Show For The Dough

February 14, 2011
In 1945 the California Community Redevelopment act was enacted to help cities fight urban blight and in 1951 Tax Increment Funding was enacted to help cities raise funds to match the federal funds. I...

Say goodbye to the 29 Palms RDA Surplus!!!

January 10, 2011
If you liked Jerry Brown of 1980 you are going to love him in 2011. You know all that money the City of Twentynine Palms has been rat holing and divvying out to their well placed friends over the yea...