Tag Archives: redevelopment agency

Let’s Budget Nuaimi’s Termination for Fiscal 2012/2013.

May 11, 2013 no comments

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...

DHS Sells RDA Property Without State Approval

May 4, 2013 1 comment

DESERT HOT SPRINGS, CA – Cities all across California are wrangling with the state Department of Finance to get permission to sell public properties owned by their former redevelopment agency (RDA). ...

Montebello, state have $7.4 million dispute over redevelopment

May 4, 2013 no comments

MONTEBELLO — About $7.4 million is at stake in a dispute between the city and the state Department of Finance over who should get Montebello redevelopment funds. In a letter to City Administrat...

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...

Let Loose The Dogs Of War: Twentynine Palms Sues

April 29, 2013

The City of Twentynine Palms has declared war upon the State of California. In a direct act of contempt of a legal order to return funds to the State and defease and Cancel the Project Phoenix Bond S...

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...

State hits Burbank with huge tab for redevelopment wind-down – B...

April 1, 2013

State finance officials have ordered Burbank to hand over $42 million in former redevelopment funds for distribution to taxing entities, stunning city officials who in January had pegged a far lower ...

Raking the coals of Tuesday Night’s Meeting..

March 24, 2013

I have posted the almost entire City council agenda for the 26th for three very important reasons: Under AWARDS PRESENTATIONS ETC is #2. OVERVIEW OF CURRENT STATUS OF PROJECT PHOENIX AND SERIES A AND...

Its Curtains for Rt. 66 Rendezvous: Cassie MacDuff

March 18, 2013

Route 66 Rendezvous volunteers got the bad news on Thursday: The classic car show, along with the San Bernardino Convention and Visitors Bureau that produced it for 22 years, is going the way of the ...

Yucca Valley: PFF Building? Old Walmart Building? In & Out Still C...

March 13, 2013

Yucca Valley, Ca.,- Town Manager Mark Nuaimi is taking his act on the road to answer questions, discuss current events and give updates on the status of the PFF bank building. The foreclosed Pomona F...

Transfer of $108 million RDA Funds Still NOT Allowed

March 7, 2013

San Bernardino- After the 20th review, State Controller, John Chiang, issued a 53 page report to reject San Bernardino’s last-ditch effort to place RDA, Redevelopment Agency funds into another ...

RIVERSIDE: City sues state over redevelopment debt

March 4, 2013

Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer said ““There’s a process in place for them to achieve the goals they’ve set out to achieve without having to resort to a lawsuit” BY ALICIA ROBINSON ...

How Did Five Smart People Get Bamboozled?

March 1, 2013

Richard Warne, the city manager for 29 Palms, was quoted in the local newspaper, The Desert Trail, as follows: “…ironically, the state’s financial officials gave the city $200,000 for lit...

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...