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Posts Tagged 'councilman william "rusty" bailey'
Posted: October 22, 2020 in City of Riverside
Tags: city attorney gary geuss, city manager john russo, councilman chris macarthur, councilman mike gardner, councilman mike soubirous, councilman william "rusty" bailey, DA Mike Hestrin
The time has come,
The time is now.
Just go, go, go!
I don't care how.
You can go by foot.
You can go by cow.
Gary G. Geuss,
will you please go now!
June 11, 2019: Hunter catches City Attorney Geuss red-handed. Our Council's response? He might be a crook, but he's our crook!
While we appreciate his tenacity and optimism, we at TMC are often amused at the efforts of City watchdog Jason Hunter over the past decade. In this instance, our guess is he thought he would bring overwhelming evidence that our City Attorney committed forgery in the execution of the John Russo contract back in February of 2018, leading to the Council summarily investigating the allegation, and then firing Geuss within months. After all, they fired his comrade, the Talented Mr. Russo, seven weeks into a seven-year contract in April of 2018 based upon the evidence he brought forward at the time of misappropriation of funds and other hanky-panky…or at least that's the cover story for why former Ward 1 City Councilman Mike Gardner and former Ward 7 City Councilman Steve Adams flipped their votes on "I can't believe they just fired me" Russo. But instead, the taxpayers are still paying Mr. Geuss' salary and benefits (and his accumulating pension) while he's been out on administrative leave for what seems to have been an eternity now.
Alas, we at TMC have no such misconceptions as to why a majority of our ethically-challenged Old City Council – Gardner (lost miserably in his re-election bid), Melendrez, Soubirous (ran for the hills), Conder, MacArthur (hiding out in the Greenbelt), Perry, and Adams (hopefully retired forever in 2 weeks) – never moved a finger to bring accountability to crooked executives: the fear of being exposed themselves. Even Mayor Bailey – hightailing it off the dais in a couple weeks to build his dreams of a homeless industrial complex right here in Riverside – didn't really care about the contents of the Russo contract when he vetoed it: it was a power struggle detailed in high definition here on TMC (another huge event the Press Enterprise was scooped on and never really understood). Once you fall down the rabbit hole of Riverside County, you can rest assure that all previous concepts of reality cease to exist: the illusion of legitimacy is what we're left with…kind of like a Dr. Seuss children's book.
Bosom buddies Melendrez and Soubirous seen high-fiving over costing the taxpayers nearly a million dollars in legal fees over the Russo contract, which was later determined to be invalid. Good job Thing 1 and Thing 2!
Exhibit 1A and 1B of Hunter's argument (see if you can spot the difference):
Oh where or where did our little Mayor Bailey go? Oh where oh where can he be?
Hunter astutely points out that the contract the City Council passed on February 6, 2018, is not the same contract that was executed on February 7th. How? The Mayor's signature block was erased in the interim. He next quotes from the City Charter regarding contracts and how only the Mayor (attested to by the Clerk) can sign them on behalf of the City, unless otherwise specifically designated by the Council. He then presents the vote of the Council from February 6th.
click above to enlarge – City Charter on contracts & official minutes from February 6, 2018
Now we at TMC didn't do much higher learnin', but it seems kind of obvious to us that the City Council designated both the Mayor (Bailey) and Mayor Pro Tem (MacArthur) at the time to both sign Russo's contract in order for it to be considered executed and payable from the City treasury. The motion passed 5-2 (as seen in the image above) with Gardner and Adams later justifying their vote by saying they only jumped on board the Russo bandwagon because they wanted to discourage the Mayor from vetoing it. Good strategy boys!
Mike Gardner, as the Grinch. Would you vote for the Grinch for Western Municipal Water Board this November?
TMC: History Channel buffs already know Russo began cashing out the extra provisions of his new contract within hours of it being signed, including his subsidized mortgage (waaaay below market interest rates) and a one-time $50,000 bonus, taken in the form of a vacation cash-out, etc. Using our keen powers of logical thinking (and watching Hunter's presentation 13 times) we're pretty certain that when the Council voted specifically that TWO signatures were needed and the contract was funded with only one, hanky-panky [cough: fraud] has occurred.
It pays to the the Riverside City Manager: 2-day turnaround time between contract "execution" and money in-the-bank! Someone call the Guinness Book of Records!
WHODUNIT!? Well, Hunter sinks the knife with the next documents he shares with the Council: transmittal sheets between the City Attorney's Office and the Clerk Office.
Three Little Pigs? $675,000 buys a lot of straw for a house, doesn't it Mr. Russo? Geuss' house purportedly is made of sticks.
These transmittal sheets show the legal opinion of our City Attorney's office during the approval process of the three Charter Officers contracts, the last time they had been extended. Hunter notes, out of the three transmittal sheets, only Russo's has two timestamps, one of them the day AFTER the contract had already been approved. He points out what was changed: the word "Mayor" is scrawled out in the comments section as to who HAS to execute the contract. And whose name is on this transmittal sheet? Yes, dear readers, our current City Attorney's, Gary G. Geuss. In fact, checking the video from the night of the contract's passage (and subsequent veto attempt), Geuss lets us know exactly what he's going to do as far as changing his legal opinion after-the-fact:
I would indicate that the contract signed by myself and by Mr. Russo be forwarded to the [Mayor] Pro Tem for his signature and the City Clerk for her attestation. And that is the only thing that is required to make this contract a legal and binding contract."
Veto limited to legislature matters? Well let's remove the appropriations resolutions then!
The Cat-in-the-Hat Knows a Lot About That: Russo and MacArthur coordinating their possible criminal defense via text message. TMC's bet: Co-Conspirators Geuss, Russo, and MacArthur are going to see the "light".
So where are we now and where do we go from here? According to Geuss' whine/complaint against the City (see below), almost A YEAR after Hunter brought damning evidence of forgery and named Geuss as the perpetrator, the new City Council (sworn in last December) finally put Geuss on administrative leave to investigate his claims. In the interim, Riverside Superior Court ruled against the City in determining the Russo contract was invalid, as Mayor Bailey had the right to veto the extra provisions in the new contract, even though the resolution appropriating those provisions was never brought forward as it should've been.
Geuss' complaint against the City after being put on administrative leave over 4 months ago. Who withheld that necessary resolution we've circled? Why it was none other than Geuss (and chief crony Kristi Smith) himself!!! Funny he doesn't mention that part!
Legal Malpractice? Proof of intent to defraud the public?
As Russo informs us in his text above, the District Attorney's Office, led by Mike Hestrin already reviewed the evidence once…and did nothing. Would a referral for criminal prosecution this time by the full City Council lead to charges finally being filed? Our prediction? Not likely.
We need Superman, not Clark Kent: will the real Mike Hestrin please stand up?
From the Judicial Council of California … "To prove that the defendant is guilty of [forgery], the People must prove that: 1) the defendant falsely made/altered/forged/counterfeited a document (e.g. contract) AND 2) when the defendant did that act, he intended to defraud." So Geuss alters a contract, knowing he doesn't have the authority to do so; and in doing so, it's relied upon to be funded from the public treasury? Sure seems like forgery to us…and every other human being we've asked (granted, TMC only has 4 friends associates colleagues ok, we admit we called 4 random people from the phone book – yes, we are so old we still use the phone book).
Former Councilman MacArthur arriving at City Hall to sign Russo's contract in the wee hours of the morning on February 7, 2018. TMC says: at least he had the dignity to put on a suit when he was sleeping on the dais for 12 years.
Looks like prison food to us.
How the Grinch Stole Our Water Starring Mike Gardner? (a teaser for another day's story)
TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE REGIONAL COUNTIES MOST EVERYTHING, A.K.A "THIRTY MILES OF CR-P," "LATINO WHITE SUPREMACIST SITE," "SITE IS A JOKE," "RACIST," "SCANDALOUS," "NEGATIVE," "WARPED," "RAUNCHY," "LOW CLASS," "VISIONS OF GRANDEUR," "FULL OF B.S.," "REPREHENSIBLE," "IGNORANT," "MISGUIDED," "BULLYISH," "INDECENT," "REPUGNANT,""IMMORAL," "FILTHY," "VILE," "SICK," "PERVERTED," "DEFAMATORY," "STUPID," "PATHETIC," "DESPICABLE," "DISAPPOINTING," "BELOW THE BELT," "A NEW LOW," "SHOCKING," "OFFENSIVE," "OBNOXIOUS," "INAPPROPRIATE," "HURTFUL," "MEAN SPIRITED," "DISTASTEFUL," "EMBARRASSING," HORRIFFIC," "SLANDEROUS" "FIT TO BE VIEWED FROM THE REAR" AND MEZZSPELLED, "MISSPELLED" AND "OPINIONATED" BLOG SITE! YES WE ADMIT WE OUR ALL OF THAT AND MORE, WHICH IN CURRENT TERMS IS KNOWN AS "UNPOLITICALLY CORRECT." TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED. I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO THE ACLU. RATED ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS.. … AGAIN, THANK YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE'S FOR YOUR SUPPORT! CONTACT US: thirtymilescorruption@hotmail.com
CITY OF RIVERSIDE: AFTER THE RAIN DEPARTED, ALL THAT'S LEFT IS A RUSTY RAINCROSS…
Tags: brad promerance, charter communication, City Coucilmant Paul Davis, city of riverside, councilman william "rusty" bailey, gary christmas, mayor william rusty bailey, press enterprise, supervisor john tavaglione, the raincross group, vivian moreno
The RAINCROSS Group Debate, Why won't they air the debate video……. Because Vivian Moreno was the breakout candidate and Paul Davis was the aggressor…and their golden boy, Bailey, well…….
The RAINCROSS Group's golden boy, Mayor William Rusty Bailey, LOST the 2016 Charter Debate and now they are refusing to air it because of his failed performance. I had a front row seat, Paul Davis took the right jab for the one-two comb punch then I took the straight-shot right to the truth.
Who are the people that call themselves the RAINCROSS Group?
RAINCROSS Group Mission Statement: Behind every great city is a team of leaders that executes the vision and many followers who support the leader's work. RAINCROSS strives to address the accountability mechanisms that make sure the leadership is on the right course. Our organizations strive to offer sound strategic support and oversight to keep our city on the right path. Governance, which includes recruiting and development of new leaders on boards and commissions, monitoring systems and signaling mechanisms of transparency, and identifying critical quality of life to sustain higher standard of living. Focusing on good governance ensures the success of leadership visions and the long term success of Riverside.
Listen I have watched this group lie, control, and try to manipulate the message of our corrupt government. They have been in the drivers seat for the last 25 years, well then, they drove us right off the fiscal cliff. We are in the worst fiscal condition in the history of Riverside, and according to their statement these people claim to have put us there. This group is comprised of only those who claim to be the leaders, and those who are their followers. To belong to this group, you have to be invited. People who think like this, is exactly what is wrong with this city.
I was looking forward to this debate because my message was the message that would expose the leadership of the RAINCROSS Group to the real truth about the city. I knew that their elitist mentality couldn't handle it. It was going to be fun! Tuesday morning May 3rd I woke up early to get prepared for the debate at Charter Communication. This was the debate that was sponsored by the RAINCROSS Group, Charter Communications and the Press Enterprise. I was ready and excited to attend. This debate would be televised in order to have a good account of the 2016 Mayorial candidates. We were all told to be there at 9 A.M. The debate started at 10 A.M. I was there early and was ready to go. I was greeted by some members of the RAINCROSS Group, Charter staff, and a Greater Riverside Chamber Staff member. We were all instructed to wait in a conference room where they had a lovely breakfast spread. Paul, Sally, Nancy, and myself were there on time. We all enjoyed pleasantries prior to the debate. There was no Bailey. His entourage gets there 15 minutes before we start, and he finally strolls in 10 minutes before the main event.
I have to ask, was Bailey's staff there on City time campaigning for him? Paul Davis' staff was not there. I asked about it later, and Paul's camp said they were on city time, and it would appear to be a conflict if they attended the debate. Again there are two sets of rules for Bailey and all others, and in his life he needs an entourage.
The actual debate started at about 10:20 A.M., we are on. I was a bit nervous, but I knew the facts and issues surrounding the city really well, so I was ready to take on Paul and Rusty. When we were all finished, I was satisfied with my performance, as I'm sure Mr. Davis was with his. After the actual filming was done, moderator Brad Pomerance acknowledged each candidate. Sally was first, he said " Good Job," then Paul, he said " Good Job," then Rusty, he winked at Rusty, then said "Good job," then it was Nancy, he said " Good Job."……. Now I am waiting for my hand shake and "Good Job," instead!!!!!! Mr. Pomerance grabs my hand and stated very loudly for all to hear, "I like you, I really like you."…. I WON!
Following the debate, I left after all was finished. It was told to me later that Mr. Pomerance entered the room, and made a comment to the guests that were still there, that he was surprised with the performance of Vivian Moreno. The story goes that Gary Christmas from the RAINCROSS group mumbles something and then brushes me off…. OK Mr. Christmas, I brushed you and your RAINCROSS Group off a long time ago when you were the Measure A (the water measure) lying spokes person for your so called civic minded group.
The Candidates were all told that the debate video would start airing Monday, May 9th. After the 9th there was no airing, I e-mailed Brad Pomerance and he stated it would air Wednesday or Thursday of that week. Those days past, still no video! Today is Sunday May 15th, still No Video Airing…..
Not airing this debate is offensive to the voters of Riverside and to all the candidates who participated in this forum. The RAINCROSS Group is part of the Special Interest problem in this city. Just look at their membership. This clearly demonstrates that they are trying to suppress and control the message, again. This debate was sponsored by the RAINCROSS Group, Charter Communications and the Press Enterprise. Are they all involved in suppressing this message?
Just a quick note: Thirty Miles believes that Bailey will be running for John Tavaglione's County Board of Supervisors seat in two years. Bailey is a career politician, Riversiders need to put him out of his misery. VOTE ANYBODY BUT BAILEY!
What is also interesting is that Mayoral Candidate Vivian Moreno has a Mayoral Facebook site; but only Davis, Bailey and Melendez were listed as linked.
Just for the record, Paul and Bailey, Do you know who is taking the "Vivian Moreno for Mayor" signs and replacing them with yours? This is what the sign looks like.
Don't Forget to Vote Vivian Moreno for Riverside Mayor 2016!
TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE'S REGIONAL COUNTIES MOST, "NEGATIVE," "RAUNCHY," "LOW CLASS," "VISIONS OF GRANDEUR," "FULL OF B.S.," "REPREHENSIBLE," "IGNORANT," "MISGUIDED," "BULLYISH," "FILTHY," "VILE," "SICK," "PERVERTED," "DEFAMATORY," "STUPID," "PATHETIC," "DESPICABLE," "DISAPPOINTING," "BELOW THE BELT," "A NEW LOW," "SHOCKING," "OFFENSIVE," "OBNOXIOUS," "INAPPROPRIATE," "HURTFUL," "MEAN SPIRITED," "DISTASTEFUL," "EMBARRASSING," HORIFFIC," "SLANDEROUS" "FIT TO BE VIEWED FROM THE REAR" AND MEZZSPELLED, "MISSPELLED" AND "OPINIONATED" BLOG SITE! YES WE ADMIT WE OUR ALL OF THAT AND MORE, WHICH IN CURRENT TERMS IS KNOWN AS "UNPOLITICALLY CORRECT." TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED. I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO THE ACLU. RATED ONE TWO ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS.. … AGAIN, THANK YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE'S FOR YOUR SUPPORT! CONTACT US: thirtymilescorruption@hotmail.com
CITY OF RIVERSIDE: NOT STUPID, BUT MAYBE JUST A LITTLE CRAZY?
Posted: October 12, 2012 in Uncategorized
Tags: city of riverside, councilman william "rusty" bailey, joel udayke, poly high school, rebecca ludwig, riverside unified school district, self appointed citizen auditor Vivian Moreno, supervisor john tavaglione
Tuesday night's City Council issue on ethics and how complaints should be handled, became heated at public commented on this issue when Self Appointed Citizen Auditor revealed what a relative and Poly High student said about some of the female public speakers during a Government Class in which William "Rusty" Bailey is the instructor. Former Deputy City Attorney Raychele Sterling chimed in with reading a formal ethics complaint against Councilman and teacher Bailey, which was submitted to the City Clerk. Bailey took the microphone and lashed out the following response to the accusations made against him.
So, now the truth behind these accusation's, occurred on Constitution Day when I was teaching my students about freedom of speech and the first amendment rights that they had. And giving them an opportunity to see public comment. And encouraging them to come down and comment on any item they've wanted to. Ahhh, including things that are put to them as skate parks. I've had student come down on several occasions to comment on items like ball fields, and skate parks, and school issues and I will continue to do that…
So if Constitution Day isn't an appropriate time to show public comment, I don't know what is. The next time I showed a video was before the Nights of Arts and Innovation to encourage my students to come down and participate in the long night Arts and Innovation which occurred last Thursday night which many of them did, many of them received community service credit for doing that.
Because I believe in getting them involved in City and exposing them to some of things that we are doing down here, such as the City Council meeting, and so they get community service hours for doing that, never did I disparage any single person or say "stupid" anytime during my class, thank you.
Now, Constitution Day that Councilman William "Rusty" Bailey is referring to, is September 17, 2012, and Arts and Innovation Night was Thursday, October 4, 2012. Councilman Bailey never did say "stupid" in his class, but what about the use of the term "crazy"?
Accordingly, news reached complainant, Vivian Moreno, via two students. One that attends Poly High School here in Riverside, and the other, the grandson, does not. After coming home that Thursday the 4th, after a presidential debate party, her grandson, Joseph (not a student at Poly High), who was doing his homework at the dining room table, told her that Bailey was talking about her in class today. In her inquiry for more information, found Joseph had spoken to his relative, who is a student at Poly High School. So what did she say, Joseph? She said that the ladies who spoke were "stupid", and then noticed you were sitting behind one of the public speakers, and said, "that's my grandma". Bailey then shut the video off.
The following is the email dialogue of the following day, between the Poly High Student and Vivian Moreno to inquire as to more detailed information.
Moreno: Joseph told me last night that Rusty Bailey mentioned me in his class room. Would you mind letting me know what he said? Did he say we were Stupid? I will keep this very private.
Poly High Student: He just said, "this is what I have to put up with and some ladies are crazy". It was the video with the lady with the long black hair and red shirt on. You were sitting and wearing white. I said "that's my grandma" and he turned the videos off. Haha, but somehow now I failing his class. I don't like him one bit!! and when he cut the lady off in the video and she was saying "this is why people shouldn't vote for you….Rusty". He was laughing at the lady in the video.
Moreno: How many times has he played these videos in his class? and why does he play these videos in his class? Does he offer extra credit to his students for walking for him?
Poly High Student: Two times, and I don't know why he plays the videos, he just does it at the beginning of the period. And no extra credit that I have heard of.
Moreno: Were they both times he was Mayor Pro Tem? Does he say anything about him being Mayor?
Poly High Student: Yes, and he says he's running for mayor, but that's all.
Moreno: Were the two times on Wednesday's these last two weeks? Did you have any kind of discussion of class assignment for viewing them? or are just viewing them because he is so full of himself? Those videos are long how much class time did he spend on them?
Poly High Student: Just the discussion when he was saying those people are crazy and I look what I have to deal with. He usually lets them run for about 5-10 minutes at the beginning of class. He fast forwards to certain parts.
Moreno: Thanks if I have other questions I will ask. On my way to L.A. see you soon. Thank-you.
Poly High Student: Okay, no problem.
Councilman Bailey made local headlines earlier this year for accessing Riverside Unified School District employee emails to solicit mayoral campaign information. Some considered this an inappropriate application of state public property for personal use, and unrelated to any school business. According to the California State Constitution Government Code 8314 (a) states, "It shall be unlawful for any state officer, appointee, employee or consultant to permit others to use state resources for campaign activity, or personal or other purpose not authorized by law". Work emails are considered state property and not to be used for campaign activity.
According to School Board Member Kathy Allavie, he was exercising his free speech right. Yes that is true, but utilizing the tools of public property for an unrelated use is a violation of the state contstitution. Regardless, Bailey still has his supporters, and accordingly, all the hooplah doesn't really matter in the case of this one commenter in this Press Enterprise story by Dan Bernstein, Riverside: Should People Who Lodge Complaints Remain Anonymous? But I'm still taken back at the fact that Berstein still considers public commenters exercising their first amendment rights to free speech as "gadflys". Sorry, Berstein, that's quite belittleing and demeaning considering this is an essential part of the democratic process.
If this is the worst thing that can be said about Rusty, he still got my vote. – John McCombs, Elementary School Principal at Riverside Unified School District, Commenter on the PE.
I question the use of "got" for a Elementary School Principal, but that's jus, opps..just me…
Other's are also asking the question, if the city's famous P.I. will be taking up the investigation of the Bailey to investigate the usual one side? Of course, we are talking about former RPD Lt. Jeff Callopy. Friend of Whom?
The following is a code of ethics and conduct complaint that Self Appointed Citizen Auditor Vivian Moreno submitted to the city clerk.
DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS AND MANNER IN WHICH CODE OF ETHICS
VIOLATED BY COUNCILMAN WILLIAM "RUSTY" BAILEY
On Wednesday, October 3, 2012, Councilman William "Rusty" Bailey (Bailey), while instructing a Government class in his capacity as a high school teacher at Poly High School, did make disparaging remarks about women who exercise their first amendment rights to political speech during public comment at Riverside City Council meetings. According to a relative of mine who is a student in Bailey's Government class, and was present on the day in question, Bailey had presented a video of a City Council meeting so that his students could see him acting in his capacity as Mayor Pro Tem. When a student inquired of Bailey who the public speakers were at the meeting, Bailey replied: "This is what I have to put up with, these "crazy ladies."" Thereafter, a female speaker, believed to be Karen Wright, was shown on the video, stating "Don't vote for Rusty Bailey". Bailey began laughing out loud at the speaker, mocking her. One of the students then replied: "Hey, that's my Grandma." Thereafter, Bailey commented "she's weird" and immediately turned the video of the City Council Meeting off.
Bailey's actions were disrespectful, offensive and sexist to both the speakers and the young women present in his class, in violation of paragraphs G and H of the Ethics Code. The impressionable young women in Bailey's class should have been encouraged to exercise the most fundamental right guaranteed under the United States Constitution, "free speech". Instead, they were discouraged and left with a feeling of inferiority, that if, as women, they were to exercise their first amendment rights and speak their mind; they would be labeled as "crazy". Bailey made no reference to male speakers, nor did he use a sex neutral word, such as "people" or "individuals". His intent was clearly to target the women speakers.
I've since learned that Bailey has shown at least two videos of city council meetings to his government class where he was acting as Mayor Pro Tem. According to my relative there was no discussion during or immediately after the video that related to the required curriculum or class plan. It appears Bailey was using the video of the council meeting not as an educational tool, but rather to seek favoritism from his students in his bid for Mayor. My relative also advised that Bailey had discussed a bid for mayor in the classroom before. This actions constitute a violation of paragraph F of the Ethics Code, as Bailey used his position as a Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem to further his campaign for Mayor of the City of Riverside.
"THE GOLDEN BOY"..RIVERSIDE COUNTY SUPERVISOR JOHN TAVIGLIONE.. ACCORDING TO PUBLIC SPEAKER REBECCA LUDWIG..
Even when you have a code of ethics, policy and procedures, you only apply them or use them when it's convenient for you. If somebody like me, comes down here or anyone else, that is in opposition, holds you accountable, then they apply, and you guys don't play fair…
I'm going to give you an example of what happen to me, not necessarily with you, but with your "Golden Boy", Mr. Tavaglione, (Riverside Supervisor JohnTavaglione is incidently currently running for Congress). Now, remember here I'm protected by Civil Code Section 47,(Privileged Communicaitons in California). He baited me for a name, I gave it to him, I was then served with papers, was sued, taken to small claims court, the judge or the commissioner, whatever you want to call him, awarded him the judgment, he was a good friend of the "Golden Boy"…
I had to write up to the Attorney General saying there was a miscarriage of justice. Lucky for me, she saw it that way to. They brought in a judge, because I told her that if you get an attorney here, some judges, not all, they are in bed with all of you guys. The Board of Supervisors and the City of Riverside, you cannot get any justice. And they did reverse that judgment on my appeal. The judge also made a statement, made it very clear to everyone present, that he was brought in from out of the area. The two mediators were from Seattle, Washington.
So, when somebody comes up here and tries to hold you accountable, you take it as an attack. We are here because we care enough about this city to get involved. I was only talking about senior abuse and protecting our children and look what happen to me, and that's only one incident. I also told you about my tire getting stabbed, being harassed at my front door four different occasions and threatened, twelve perpetrators, and I do have affidavits to prove this, and if you want to settle this going on, have them sign an affidavit. You take sign affidavit and take it to court and see what happens, see who is telling the truth. I'm all for justice, and you guys, not all of you, but most of you don't play fair…
When we come up here and we address you, please don't take it personal even though it may sound that way, and if it is, it's because it is justifiable…
TMC knows that Mrs. Ludwig is not alone. There are many stories from the citizens of Riverside who have had similar experiences. They feel intimidated and are afraid to come out with their stories. Thank-you Mrs. Ludwig for you courage to come out with yours.
WHAT DID COUNCILMAN PAUL DAVIS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE CODE OF ETHICS? YOU GIVE UP THAT PRIVACY RIGHT WHEN YOU MAKE A COMPLAINT AGAINST A PUBLIC OFFICIAL! …..WE ARE PUBLIC OFFICIALS!
Councilman Paul Davis started out by statiing that he did have issues with some of things that City Attorney, Greg Priamos said. Some of the issues is that some of the language needs to be changed to "any person". In otherwords, no public employee, whether it be it an employee of this city, has the authority or the idealism that if a complaint is made against a council member, an elected official, who is not a city employee, that can be handled by Human Resources; that employee who makes that complaint should have "no expectation of privacy", and there is no law in the books that says that they do.
That's like myself like myself making a complaint against Vivian Moreno (Self Appointed Citizen Auditor), the same thing abides here. If you have to make a complaint against a council member, that council member and that employee, a public employee can go to Human Resources. Staff has no authority at all to investigate a council member under any circumstances! You don't have that authority, only the commissions have that authority. Therefore if a city employee does choose to file a complaint of any sort. It is a considered complaint on ethics on a councilmember, be it the mayor or anybody . We cannot abridge that process. We don't have that authority. That is a violation of the charter. And you can't tell me that there is any law in the books, anywhere, that says any different.
And the process is that we are public officials. Just like when President Clinton went through the process with his issue, there is no difference. We are no different that person is at all. And there is no expectation of privacy on anybody's side. "You give up that privacy right when you make a complaint against a public official!" Unless it's a criminal act that is so heinous that they are protected under certain laws. Just simply a disagreement, for example, is not a protected right. So I do say any person, or any entity, makes a complaint, be it the Human Resources as an employer or anywhere. It needs to go through that process. The public has the right for us to be before them, if you will, and be tried, if you will, before them. Not behind closed doors at anytime. It is a "public issue", and that person be a public employee or otherwise has to understand that, that's the way it works. You can't have separate rules for seven things for separate people. "We are public officials!"
FORMER DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY RAYCHELE STERLING: AN ALLEGED KNIFE INVOLVED BETWEEN TWO COUCILMAN'S AIDE'S?
"Rusty, actually at the last council meeting, I thought you gave a really, really nice prayer… and you asked for blessings of your employees, and unfortunately I didn't feel that prayer was heartfelt, and that was really saddening to me, because I feel like the actions that are taken really aren't ever in the interest of your employees, or bringing blessings to them, but rather just bringing them heartache and hurt to them, so I really hope that you meant that prayer and you are going to try to make a difference of what's going on in the City."
I believe this was brought up because Councilman Bailey is on the Board of Leaders of Godly Character International.
"I did want to address some issues about privacy for employees, it depends on who you are whether you get those privacy rights. .. every city employee is entitled to them. But, I received a call, a while back, from a young lady named, Alicia Robinson (Riverside Press Enterprise), I didn't even know who she was, I had no idea how she could have got my cell phone number, somebody from the City must have given it to her, and she had all three of my harassment discrimination complaints. So where was my privacy? This woman calls me, I don't know who she even is, she's from the press, and she has all my discrimination harassment complaints, it was very, very disturbing to me. So, it depends who you whether you are if you are entitled to that privacy. If you speak out against the city you're probably not."
"I talked about Maria Lamping last time I was here, and in the notice she received there was a confidential settlement brief, protected by the federal rules of civil procedure, and that was unlawfully released by the City Attorney's Office, by the Public Works Office, by Tina English and I want to know, are those people being subject to administered interviews? Are they being subject to being on administer leave? Probably not, because they bobbled their heads accordingly."
"The other thing that I heard, it's just rumour, so I don't know if it's true, but I heard that Councilman's Chris MacArthur's Aide held a knife to the throat of your Aide, Rusty.. I don't know if that is true. If that is true and you allow an employee who poses that kind of violent risk to other employees, and to your constituents, Chris, because he is going to their home's, and you allow him to remain here? And yet you allow other employees to be fired for frivolous reasons. That's a slam dunk that you are discriminating, harassing and retaliating against your employees who are whistleblowers, and that you are permitting it to occur from management and gratifying it."
Councilman Chris MacArthur's legislative aide is Chuck Condor..someone who has appeared to continue to slide by the City's Code of Ethics..so is this Code of Ethics really a charades, as many are asking? A broadway show at our Fox Theatre that seemingly cost to much to see?
This allegation regarding this alleged altercation between Councilman Chris MacArthur's Aide, Chuck Condor, and Councilman and Mayoral Candidate William "Rusty" Bailey's Aide, Mark Earley, came through the pipelines in and about April 23, 2012. Currently, we still have not received any substantive information from City Hall to corroborate these allegations.
Sterling went on to say, "Steve, that is not a personal issue, that it is a policy issue, because that creates liability for each and everyone of you. At this point it may even creat punitive damages against you personally, I don't know I will have to do the research on that.."
UPCOMING: WHAT DID JOEL UDAYKE, OWNER OF THE FLOWERLOFT, HAVE IN A VICTORIA SECRETS BAG FOR CITY COUNCIL DURING PUBLIC SPEAKING?
I'm going to talk about the state controller, I know everybody is tired of hearing about it, but we are worse than the City of Bell, we are in debt, 3 to 4 billion dollars.
So I felt kind of weird last City Council meeting, everybody brought props, so I brought some props, I brought this (and orange jumpsuit), does everybody recognize that? It even comes with jewelry (handcuffs).
Is there any compelling reason why none of you elected officials have called the State Controller? If there's nothing to hide, why hasn't anybody called? I know it will be a public relations disaster, when they find all things that has happened in the city, when spending tax payers money and redevelopment money incorrectly. When is somebody going to call? When is somebody going to do the right thing? We have all the information..
Dvonne, Vivian, Raychele have the information for you, …City Council person call and get an audit, Brad Hudson (former City Manager) isn't here anymore, you shouldn't have any fears.
In closing, "It's easier to tell the truth, than a lie"…."You never forget the truth, you always forget a lie".
Call the State Controller. We're here, to talk to you, and get this on the road, it's going to be a public relations disaster, because of this city being this perfect entity, but have to know where are money went and the people who are responsible for it need to be wearing orange…
WHAT COUNCILMAN IS SEEN OUT AT A "DAIRY QUEEN" WITH A CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE? SOME OUR ASKING, "HOW MUCH CAN AN "ICE CREAM CONE" GET YOU IN THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE"? WELL IT APPEARS TO BE ALOT..
According to the last campaign mailer sent to voters homes, Mayor Ron Loveridge stated of Bailey, "Rusty Bailey has the highest possible commitment to public service, reinforced by his years at West Point. Values are important in being Mayor. He is not wedded to any special interest."
The same evening that Bailey was to debate opponent Mayoral Candidate Ed Adkison at the the la Sierra/ De Anza Park Senior Center Debate, whereby he spoke in favor of Peter Hubbard's AMR, and the rational of using one ambulance service in the City of Riverside. Councilman an Mayoral Candidate William "Rusty" Bailey was seen at a local Dairy Queen, with non other than American Medical Response, Peter Hubbard on October 4, 2012, therefore contradicting Mayor Loveridges's endorsement.
UPDATE: 11/06/2012: On good authority, Councilman Rusty Bailey bought AMR's Peter Hubard the ice cream.. The question is how much can a cone of ice cream get you…
WHAT IS THE ISSUE WITH FIRE STATION NUMBER ONE, AND THE WORK STOPPAGE?
TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE'S MOST "SLANDEROUS" AND MEZZSPELLED, "MISSPELLED" AND "OPINIONATED" BLOG SITE! TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED. I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO ACLU. RATED ONE TWO ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS.. TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE'S DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE'S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST… WE WILL HAVE TO ASK GREGORY ABOUT THAT ONE ( OUR PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO CONTACT HIS PEOPLE)… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE'S FOR YOUR SUPPORT! COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS! EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT OR FOR CONTACT! THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM
CITY OF RIVERSIDE: THE PAUL DAVIS COMPLAINT: TO HEATED OF AN ISSUE FOR A FIRE EXTINGUISHER TO PUT OUT?
Tags: chief russ leach, city attorney greg priamos, city of riverside, councilman paul davis, councilman steve adams, councilman william "rusty" bailey, fire chief steve early
Tuesday's City Council begain with the rattle, then the strike and finally the discharge of venom by City Attorney Gregory Priamos by reading a complaint laid out against Councilman Paul Davis by a Fire Inspector. Was this premature? It wasn't to long ago that a deposition by former Chief Russell Leach was release prematurely by Priamos, and the case was still active and ongoing, and in this case Bailey came out looking disfigured. Today, Priamos released a bombshell against City Councilman Paul Davis regarding a complaint issued by a female fire inspector. This stemmed from a June 12th, 2012 incident at the food truck festival regarding fire hydrants. Davis and his wife were organizers of this event. According to Councilman Davis a female fire inspector percieved that he was 'loud' and 'disruptive', therefore the complaint, and according to the Press Enterprise, felt she was 'disrespected'. Disrespected possibly because Councilman Davis called Chief Earley in front of her? Now, anyone who has worked in the private sector knows, if you reach a wall with one person, you ask for the next person in charge. This isn't 'disrespectful', this is 'expected' and 'acceptable'. She also made mention that he was 'rude' and 'interfered with her work'. Then this incident evolved into a 'discrimination' and 'harassment' complaint. According to Priamos the 'discrimination' and 'harassment' complaint was investigated by the City and it was determined to be 'founded' against Davis. Therefore, it happened as indicated. 'Discrimination' and 'harassment' accusations are serious. So, could the perception of the chain events be a misunderstanding which now became a 'harassment' and 'discrimination' complaint? Now, we all know about 'harassment' and 'discrimination' complaints because we have seen enough of these lawsuits filed against the City by employees. The City, it appears forgot one thing, according to Davis he was never 'interviewed'. So how did this get by the good city attorney many are asking? Well, were not sure. But Priamos did hire a friend, former RPD Lt. Jeff Collopy, Internal Affairs Bureau, to do the "independent investigative work" on this complaint, except he forgot to 'interview' Councilman Davis regarding his side of the story. "Independent", we as you can see, Collopy was far from that. According to a posting by Alicia Robinson of the Press Enterprise, former Lt. Jeff Collopy charged the City/ taxpayer $85/ hour for 10 hours of investigative work for a total of $850.00.
Sidenote: Is this really about Councilman Davis forcing Priamos to be transparent? Two weeks ago, Tueseday August 14, 2012, at city council closed session, Priamos was asked to produce his personal reimbursement schedule for public record, and was given 72 hours.
This carried forward to Councilman Bailey acting as Mayor Pro-Tem, also known as "Independent voice of Riverside". "The City Council does not condone the actions of Councilman Davis, founded through a complaint and interview by a city employee and investigated by a private detective," Bailey said. "The City Council will continue to call out for behavior expected of a public official serving the residents of Riverside."
Well okay, but we know Bailey has a few skeletons in his closet that can be called out for behavior expected of a public official serving the residents of Riverside. Let's not forget Councilman Steve Adam's sliding by complaints, or the citizens complaint against Adams files by six members of the La Sierra/ Arlanza Neighborhood Aliance that was dismissed by former City Manager Brad Hudson. Again, did Bailey know Davis never gave his side of the story in what is called an 'interview'?
Davis went on to say. However, I do want to add something to this, this unfounded or finding of the complaint now that it has been read out of my arrangement has not been completed. And I'm hoping that we can. I have not been 'interviewed' officially, for them to say that it was 'founded', I do have 'cause on that'. But to that person I'm very sorry, and that should be a public statement to her. What was just read was not what I'm comfortable with.
We know the Councilman Davis and Councilman Adams have had their spirited disagreements, but for some reason it seemed that Councilman Steve Adams was egging Councilman Davis on by the following statement. "Are you feeling that you weren't handled appropriately?" …….Nope, we can handled it now, you just made the statement, Adams said. Would you like to call for an independent investigation? So that you make sure that your rights are upheld, Adams continued. "Steve!", Davis answered, "the information that we discussed was that it was in position that it should have been handle. Now a statement comes out that says that in fact it was 'founded.'" "That is the report that was given", Steve said… Davis then said, "that my understanding is that one piece of this is not 'founded'." The mayor then intervened as stated that the conclusion of the report was that it was 'founded.'
Davis went on to say that "I have great difficulty with what was just read by city attorney's office that was not discussed."
Even Councilman Mike Gardner layed in his two cents with all the trivial remaining sense he had, and said, "as far as the council is concerned, it's now done".
It appears that there were parts that complaint that were ambiguously discussed behind closed doors, then an occurrence unbeknownst to him happened. The complaint was 'founded'. Not a simple complaint now, it now evolved to a 'harassment' and 'discrimination' complaint. In TMC's opinion the lines of separation are evident, and the damage of an unaligned railroad apparent.
"The damage is done," Davis said.
As a kids game, when you are no longer wanted as part of the pack, the bullying happens and is becomes apparent.. for whatever reason..the munimob has spoken..you can't question it, it just is…
It appears that there were parts that complaint that were ambiguously discussed behind closed doors by 'the City', then an occurrence unbeknownst to him happened. The complaint was 'founded'. Not a simple complaint now, it now evolved to a 'harassment' and 'discrimination' complaint.
We understand now that not even an interview of the incident was given to Councilman Davis, it appears to be a complete violation of procedure, as many are weighing in. It's no secret to many of Councilman's Davis's relationship with Priamos, and even with other councilman, such Steve Adam's, who also put his two cents worth on the issue. Now it's also not uncommon to see Priamos with Adams at a local watering hole such as Mazz at the Riverside Plaza. But others are asking now is this retaliation toward a tape of Priamos released last week at City Council, which of course the tape had nothing to do with Councilman Davis, but simply a breach within his own office. At City Council, former Deputy Attorney Raychelle Sterling weighed in toward Councilman Mike Gardner that Priamos would call him an 'idiot' at staff meetings. " I don't know why you support the city attorney." We found he also called Councilman Bailey an 'idiot', as well. She went further to state that Councilman Adams is a liability to the city.
So why is Priamos acting this way? We go back in time and ask the questions on certain incidents. The episode and complaint against former Councilman Dom Betro yelling inappropriatly and making threatening comments on Main Street at Kevin Dawson and his daughter, what did Priamos say then? Nothing.. What about the Valmont Graham discrimination case? Where Councilman Bailey may have had a part in Officer Graham not getting promoted, due to a percieved perception. Now costing the taxpayer extrodinary litigation expenses because of a misunderstanding? It's been perceived that Priamos protects those he has relationships with, and others he doesn't. Even though he says he serves at the pleasure of the council, a different turn of event occurs behind the close doors of the Priamos office. Many at this time are beginning to think, doesn't the City Attorney represents and protects the needs of the community against liabilities? Well think again, there is a whole other set of dynamics that don't include the taxpayer, the employer. Possibly as some have said, a whole other culture has developed at City Hall. Viewing the incident, we know that Councilman Davis has been the sole person to vote for another ambulance company entering the boundaries of the City, such as Mission Ambulance. Could we say that the complaint by the fire inspector suspicious? It was filed solely based on perception? Perception than now became harassment and discrimination. Perception sure has exploded. Let's also not forget Priamos friendship with Peter Hubbard who runs AMR (American Medical Response). The following is a transcribed letter of the original, written by Priamos to the law firm representing Mission Ambulance, and telling them they cannot send a representative to City Council in order to lobby for them.
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW LETTER
Let's take it a step further, his friendship with Councilman Steve Adams. We have witnesses who seen them together at one of their favorite watering holes, the Salted Pig. Okay, now I'm beginning to think is this whole episode politically motivated? We forgot to say that Councilman Davis also spoke with Fire Chief Steve Earley, who state he could not comment on the complaint.
Fire Chief Earley is also a friend of AMR's Peter Hubbard. There has been some talk around town that Peter Hubbard (AMR) hosted Tim Stack (President of the Riverside City Firefighter Union) and Wendy Stack's wedding reception at Peter Hubbard's home. We shouldn't be surprised, after all, this is River City and screwing is king…
Of course, you know there is more to come… stayed tuned for another episode of "As Riverside Turns Your Stomach".
"Elected officials aren't typically involved in such investigations"… yes, that's right. The difference here is that the staff is completely out of control, and have repeatedly demonstrated a complete disregard for the citizens they serve. When people complain about "out of control government" this is what they're complaining about. The staff does what they want, when they want without regard to their elected officials. Totally unacceptable. We need stronger and better oversight on the council. -Jim Stewart, Commenter on the PE
Yes, let's have the city pay to block off some streets for a food truck festival and then not allow the food trucks we invited to the city to sell their food. Good for Davis for getting upset at that kind of nonsense. I was at a separate event with food trucks and the county inspectors were waiting at the gates of the event like rabid dogs. Using selective enforcement to single out and shut down businesses is one of the reasons why this state is in the mess it is in. -John Rockwell, Commenter on the PE
Let's start a forum of stories about fire inspectors being rude. – Sharon Marshall, Commenter on the PE
So the city hires private investigators to handle complaints involving elected officials. Good! Now perhaps they can investigate the ones who allegedly violated the city charter by interfering in the police department's promotional process. – Mary Shelton, Commenter on the PE
But this complaint is politically motivated, plain and simple – Paul questions the kickback given by AMR to the fire chief, and then this happens. It's ridiculous. – Jim Stewart, Commenter on the PE
If I were mayor pro tem, and was running for that very office, I might have used the "Face Time" for more strategic issues facing our city, and not bickering over an issue which has yet to be resolved. – Ron Woodbury, Commenter on the PE
UPDATE: 08/29/2012: A REPORT FROM THE PRESS ENTERPRISE IS STATING THAT COUNCILMAN DAVIS'S COMPLAINT HAS BEEN RESOLVED. NOW THAT THE DUST HAS SEEMED TO SETTLE, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM CITY ATTORNEY PRIAMOS'S NEXT PERFORMANCE EVALUATION?
JUST FOR LAUGHS PERSPECTIVE..
RIVERSIDE FORGOTTEN… RIVERSIDE MAIN STREET MALL, CIRCA 1966
TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE'S MOST "SLANDEROUS" AND MEZZSPELLED, "MISSPELLED" AND "OPINIONATED" BLOG SITE! TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED. I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO ACLU. PROUDLY RATED ONE STAR (POSSIBLY DOWN TO ZERO FROM OUR LAST ACCOUNTS) OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS.. TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE'S DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR GOOD REASON, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE'S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST, FOR GOOD REASON… WE WILL HAVE TO ASK GREGORY ABOUT THAT ONE ( OUR PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO CONTACT HIS PEOPLE)… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE'S FOR YOUR SUPPORT! COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPHALL SPELL CHECKERS! EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT OR CONTACT US BY THE FOLLOWING EMAIL ADDRESS! CONTRIBUTORS WILL ALWAYS BE PROTECTED… YES, WE EXPECT THE JAIL TIME FOR THAT ONE… THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM
CITY OF RIVERSIDE: REDISTRICTING: DIVYING UP THE PROFITS OF PROSPECTS…
Tags: alark chrome, assistant city manager tom desantis, chief sergio diaz, city manager brad hudson, city of riverside, councilman steve adams, councilman william "rusty" bailey, environmental protection agency, mayor ron loveridge, redistricting, sgt. valmont graham
Redistricting is the process of drawing new electoral district boundaries in order to equalize district populations, and that's that. It's not about business preferences or to insure a candidates political election. The overall purpose of redistricting is to review districts and where necessary redraw districts in order to address any changes in population concentration. Anything other than this would be considered gerrymandering. Gerrymandering, of course, would the act of that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating geographic boundaries to create partisan or incumbent-protected districts. Gerrymandering may also be used to hinder a particular demographic, such as a political, racial, linguistic, religious, or class group. A considerable amount to consider.Unfortunately, the grey lines of redistricting interpretation has escalated into a cornucopia of questionable delineations when it comes to the final district maps. Some of the Principle Rules of Redistricting are as follows:
1. Compactness-districts shall be drawn to encourage geographical compactness such that nearby areas of population are not bypassed for more distant population.
2. Contiguity-The geographic integrity of any city, county, city and county, local neighborhood, or local community of interest shall be respected.
3. Community Interest-A community of interest is a contiguous population which shares common social and economic interests that should be included within a single district for purposes of its effective and fair representation.
4. Protection of Incumbents and Achieving Political Goals- The place of residence of any incumbent or political candidate shall not be considered in the creation of a map. Districts shall not be drawn for the purpose of favoring or discriminating against an incumbent, political candidate, or political party.
One such incident of questionable activity came up when legislative aide to Ward 5 Councilman Chris Mac Arthur, Chuck Conder questioned the possible move of his residence from Ward 4, represented by Councilman Paul Davis.
Has Mr. Conder been on a mission canvassing neighborhoods, allegedly in what some are saying 'gerrymandering mode' in hopes to swing a district to their benefit in the next council election? But Mr. Conder was the same person who allegedly was involved in an altercation at city hall, to take it a step further, has blatantly called City Council Public Speakers 'idiots', ' bitches' and even taken photographs for record purposes. I suppose for Councilman Chris Mac Arthur's reference file. One would think that this would be enough for firing. Nope, this is Riverside, we are old school, and some political families are deep rooted in more ways than one, a way that some say is responsible for how the City is currently runned.
But nothing surprises me these day when you view Moreno Valley School Board Member Mike Rios, (incidently who would want this person around or representing your children? But evidently they keep voting for him!). This is one man who has been charged with attempted murder, pandering, rape and pimping of underage girls, a wife who has been deported for illegally being in the country and drug transporting.…a great resume and now running for City Council of Moreno Valley, which I just believe did not make the application deadline. Should we call it sociopathic behavior?
What constitutes a resume for a position as City Council these day's? Would it be the same that constitutes a resume for City Council in the City of Riverside? Could we say it would be much more than a 'housekeeping' background? I would imagine one should at least be able to read the city's financial books as a start. But changing the page, how about those who have taken the oath of office to complete the office that they campaigned for, then inadvertently decide to change course to pursue another political office? Councilman Andy Melendrez, William "Rusty" Bailey and Mike Gardner, decided to run for Mayor without completing their obligatory oath to represent the constituents that they asked to elect them. Councilman Mike Gardner on record states at a City Council debate at Cal Baptist University in 2011, that he has "no intention to run for Mayor". Soon as he wins the election for Ward 1 City Council, he decides to run. The same with William " Rusty" Bailey, who on the eve of his reelection wining decides he may also just run for mayor. Is there something in Riverside water, besides hexavalent chromium that is causing these indecisive brain damaging responses from local leadership?
As you can see, Chuck Conder's residence is in Ward 4, which is actually in the pink in color (according to the map) because it reflects Councilman's Paul Davis's area, and is currently in the Canyon Crest neighborhood of which is in question. The recommendation is that residential portion be shifted to Ward 2. Conder said Thursday that he and a neighbor circulated a petition, which he created after hearing Ward 2 Councilman Andy Melendrez's impassioned plea not to split the Eastside. "When Andy talked about (how) contiguous neighborhoods should be respected and you ought to keep neighborhoods together and not split them, that's what was going to happen to us," neigborhood Conder said. Well it wasn't really going to happen that way. First, if you look at where Chuck resides, we just called it Chuckie Land for the point of argument.
Keep in mind Chuckie's neighborhood lines (the broad red lines) are made up of Ward 4, Ward 3 and Ward 2 residences. Even if one wanted to change Chuck's residence to Ward 3, it would still remain within the boundaries of the neighborhood lines (large red lines), therefore not breaching the contiguous argument he attempted to make. The ward boundary line is indicated by the dark blue line on the map. Therefore the question of why the petition, as many are asking? Not to make this more confusing, Chuck Conder currently resides in Councilman Paul Davis's Ward 4. The rumour is he wants to stay in Ward 4 so he can run against current Councilman Paul Davis in the 2013 election. Chuckie currently stated on record he has no plans to run against current Councilman Paul Davis in the next election. So why the effort? Can we assume that their is some underlying agenda? We've heard in the past the those in politics may somtimes portray a position of having no underlying meaning, but why do it? Is their a concealed agenda for Adkison's , Bailey's , Melendrez and Gardner's efforts to pursue the Mayor's seat? All have been Councilman, and all want to be Mayor…and the later three have discount their obligation to the constituents to fulfill their electoral term.
But is it also possible for those in City Council to negotiate amongst themselves pieces of their district within closed doors to insure their reelection? Is it also possible for someone to canvass district neighborhoods for signatures in order to play musical chairs with district neighborhoods in order to allegedly benefit themselves and possibly a political agenda in the next council election? Or a letter from the Greater Riverside Chamber President, Cindy Roth, to recommend the move of one area of Ward 2 to Ward 1?
I don't know what really happened to decency in government, or if it ever existed, but what about our fourth branch of government? I always thought the responsible party would be our local paper, the Press Enterprise, so why does this publication feel the need to confine opinion in the way that it does? Opionion good or bad molds peoples opinions. People should not have to be protected by opionion, people can certainly be the judge of that. Relevant stories regarding the City don't always seem to make to print. Is it because, maybe they are so tied with the city that a true investigative story of relevance may never come to fruition. Is it possible such non print occurrences may be due to accepting special electrical rates with the City?
CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW PRESS ENTERPRISE CONTRACT WITH THE CITY.
Would this then obligate the PE to turn some stories down? But in the politically correct world we live in, it must seemingly be acceptable. There was a time when part of our checks and balances in government was the press. The presss was considered the fourth part of government, notwithstanding the judicial, executive and legislative, something went a rye when one piece failed to step up to the plate of protecting the taxpaying people.
Let's also remember the City of Riverside owns it's Public Utilities, and electricity can be purchased from next to nothing, allowing the City to make astronomical profits.
-THE BAILEY LAPTOP CAPER-
As Joe Friday would say "Only the facts". The facts are, quite confusing… We have a teenager with an attitude, no back up (not muscle, but computer lingo for data protection), a dog that is a barker not a biter (I'm a lover not a fighter scenario) but still allowed the intruder to breach the premises, home was not ransacked, there was the feeling of being violated (which I can understand), no crystal or china was taken (did anyone care about this when they were a teenager?), emotionally disturbing face book postings (I assume nothing was password protected). A confrontation with the hacker online, and in this virtual world a chase ensued, eventually pressing him to leave this synthetic social playground.
Neighbors saw the teen casing homes but did nothing, except for one individual who confronted him, and his response was, "I'm now going to lunch". But according to the PE, Chief Diaz is on it, couldn't comment on it due the ongoing investigation.
I'M ON IT..
Months back, Diaz was praised on his work on the apprehension of the fifty cent bandit, as we have posted on TMC. A perplexing set of circumstances, eventually leading to questions such as why did this individual actually spent the time to go on to his facebook site to post embarrising comments which were by all standards "juvenile", (which I would and could not expect anything less from a teen). Did this teen know Councilman Bailey? Could he have been a former or current student of his??
No password, that was easy…Facebook, who is this guy? Let's have some fun..
Many questions abound in this perplexing enigma, but thank god for the chief to hopefully bust this caper wide open. And it appears they did. Again the story reported by the PE still appears missing pieces of puzzle to make this story whole. The Press Enterprise states police was investigating an unrelated burgalary, when they happened to visit this teen's home and spoke to the guardian. Shortly after, the guardian and teen met with detectives and surrendered the property. Now it appears to me that quite possible Bailey knew the teen, and/or the teen knew Bailey. In the real world this doesn't happen. I've had property stolen as well as other residents in our neighborhood, and RPD response to the property stolen, is that it may never be retrieved or found. Needless to say, the laptop and all the other stolen items were found, good for Bailey. Other suggestions from emails to help Bailey, were using and online back up system such as Carbonite, to protect against stolen or lost lap top computers Lo Jack for Lap tops is recommended. Once a computer is turned by a robbery suspect, the laptop can be located within hours. Then simply a home alarm system.
This goes to reason, as police are not always at our disposal, as one wood street retired police officer had stated, RPD is not always responsive. This was one resident who walks his dog, and was accosted by three individuals on Ramona. Which he was able to hold back with the use of pepper spray. Now he walks his dog armed. He was asked, If residents should learn how to use arms for protection, his answer was yes. As trying times continue people will become more desperate, and individuals will need to be able to protect their properties and most importantly their families. Local gun classes and pepper spray classes can be found by calling any gun store. Until then, we can only wait to hear a response from the Chief himself on this laptop caper, which it appears their was a break in the story. A great surprise for residents who never receive this quick of a response from RPD. Regardless, as many residents agree, quite a bit of hoop la of stories for a lap top by PE, where other stories of importance are only mired into the depths and darkness below the camouflage of political quicksand.
Well, the culprit was arrested in this lap top caper. Officer Manning said police were investigating an unrelated burglary when they visited the teenager's home (I would imagine inadvertainly) and spoke with his guardian. Shortly after that, the guardian and the juvenile, who is 17, "met with detectives and surrendered property taken in the burglary at Councilman Bailey's house. The juvenile admitted participation in the burglary," Officer Manning said. Police believe the teenager is involved with at least half a dozen other burglaries. Manning said they assume others are involved because of the types of items that were taken. Manning said the teen has no prior criminal record, but he declined to release any identifying details because of the suspect's age. Bailey could not immediately be reached for comment (Well alrighty now). A neighbor told Bailey he had seen a male teenager peering into homes, apparently casing them, but it's not yet known whether that was the same person police arrested. Whatever the vague cirmcumstances, we are glad Bailey has retrieved his famed lap top. We only hope that he would now fight so that this type of efficient police work can be attained by all citizens. In the East Side, currently RPD is still seeking clues to the June 30th murder of Ashanti Hassan and the January 26th murder of Gregory Ball.
-UNION MAYHEM IN SAN BERNARDINO: NOW THE MAYOR'S FAULT?-
It's hard not bring up the blame of government officials without bringing up the unions. This is of course not a one sided issue. Public/Government Officials and Unions who negotiated unsustainable pension plans as well as salaries. Executive Government Officials who had City Council give their blessing for their high salaries and pension, beyond the standard of the private sector. There are two aspects here to consider.
It appears the Mayor is already being shaked down in a intimidation tactic to vote a certain way. This would not happen if people In the communities would educate themselves in city politics and attend city council meetings and voice their opinion, otherwise what you get is out side organizations which may not have the community's best interest at heart, because what is at stake is their interest which may be union emphasized. Government should be representative of the people, not those who's interest lies within a particular group or organization of a few. This in essence can only breach the health and safety of the community as a whole. As a whole the community must pay for it in higher taxes. And that is would substantiate a breach of public trust by those who took an oath to protect and represent their constituents, rather than their obligations to their contributors. Well, this will continue to become and ongoing conundrum brought to the forefront of many municipalities. More cities in the next few years will file for bankruptcy, Compton, CA may be next..with many more to follow. Salaries and pensions that go beyond what is found by the standard of the private sector, cannot be legitimately justified. In the private sector salaries are based on the value or service produced, in public service, nothing is produced. Salaries are simply justified based on taxpayer monies available in some sort of revenue stream that ends up becoming some sort of illusion of value. Unsustainable pensions: many feel these union pension contracts were negotiated not in the best interest of the taxpayer. Therefore a breach of trust and consequently should legally be deemed null and void.
-HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM IN RIVERSIDE, ARE WE THIRD UP ON THE LIST?-
Alark Hard Chrome was a chrome plating shop in the 1970's located at 2777 Main Street. Soil and groundwater at this sit were contaminated with chromium as a result of spills, discharges and drips of plating solutions on the premises.
This site was added to the EPA's National Priorities List (NPL), commonly called the Superfund Site here in Riverside. Even though there are many hot spots of contamination in and around Riverside, the EPA has set their sights on this one and continue to monitor levels of Chromium-6 also known as Hexavalent Chromium, a known carcinogen when found in drinking water. Hexavalent Chromium was made famous in the Erin Brockovich movie of ground water contamination in Hinkely, CA. All of the City of Riverside's water come from ground water wells. The Environmental Protection Agency will continue to monitor the Alark site, ground zero for the known dumping of this contaminate. The EPA will continue to follow it's path, or technically it's plume, to known drinking wells. The City of Riverside has said that our water is safe.
Our understanding of regulatory guidelines is that neither the State of Federal Government limit Hexavalent Chromium in water, but both regulate total chromium instead. The Federal Government has a cap of 100 ug/L (100 parts per billion) for total chromium and the State of California limits total chromium in drinking water to 50 ug/L (50 part per billion). In 2001, the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) conducted ground water samplings. In one well (MW-7), the ground water sample contained 17,300 ug/L (17,300 parts per billion) hexavalent chromium exceeding the States maximum acceptable level of 50 ug/L (50 parts per billion). As we understand, there are new methods to detect specifically the carcinogenic Chromium-6 (Hexavalent Chromium) in ground water.
The question which has not been quite answered, is has the plume hit the drinking water aquafiers to the extent of concerned levels? According to Riverside Public Utilites water quality report of 2011, hexavalent chromium ranged from 1.9 parts per billion to 2.7 parts per billion, all in acceptable levels for drinking water. So how much Hexavalent Chromium is necessary for someone to come down with cancer? At this time the answer is unknown. The EWG (Environmental Working Group), initiated by Erin Brockovich, is now pushing to reduce California's hexavalent chromium limit down to 0.06 parts per billion. In this scenario, making a case of levels of hexavalent chromium contaminant in water in relation to cases of related cancer, won't be necessary. Therefore, if she is successful, Los Angeles, San Jose, Sacramento and Riverside would be targets of her litigation team. If the State levels of hexavalent chromium were to drop to 0.06 part per billion, the City of Riverside would be third on the list on the top five chromium contaminated cities.
THE ALARK SITE (FIRST TWO PICS), AND ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN, THE NEW FAIRLY NEW DEVELOPMENT CLOSE TO ALARK ON TWOGOOD LANE (THIRD PIC).
-COUNCIL INTERFERENCE ON THE PROMOTION PROCESS? 35-0..SGT. VALMONT GRAHAM CALLS FOUL!
On one hand, Riverside Chief of Police Sergio Diaz states that his promotion decisions are not guided by racial bias, and he wants to dispel the image that the city "is a soft touch" for disgruntled employees by litigating their suits. Even though the Chief refrained directly about this case, he certainly appears to infer that those bringing up these issues of discrimination are disgruntled employees. Sgt. Valmont Graham has served the citizens of the City of Riverside for an outstanding 25 years. Allegedly, Sgt. Valmont Graham has been passed over 35 times during his employment with the City. It would personally be an insult to refer an officer of the law, of this caliber,(of course I'm not talking about the illegal gun sale to the former City Manager Brad Hudson by the President of the RPD Union), as a 'disgruntled employee'. So why the pattern of retaliation? Now keep in mind that the Chief was hired by former City Manager Brad Hudson, who left town in whisk to take a lower paying job for the County of Sacramento when his discretionary spending came into question. But it's no secret, retaliation has costed the taxpayer a mint in legal fees, and further the settlement via a court judgement. Sgt. Valmont Graham's original complaint is as follows:
COMPLAINT OF 07-19-2011
TMC wrote a story, City of Riverside See's Skin Color as Problematic? The Press Enterprise story that Sgt. Valmont Graham was passed over for promotion because he was "black". A highly respected black judge, Jaqueline Jackson was assigned to hear this case, but was then asked by Richard D. Roth, contract attorney for the City of Riverside, to be removed. As an attorney, how effective will he be in defense of the City, when more than likely he will settle this case out of court. Roth is also running for California State Senate and is endorse by those in the City such as Mayor Ron Loveridge. By the way Mr. Roth's wife, Cindy Roth, is President of the Greater Riverside Chamber of Commerce, also supported and financed to promote certain City events such as the "Festival of Lights".
The question that seems to be returning to the forefront is, "are Council interfereing with the Police promotion process?" Back in May 2011, Councilman Steve Adams, also a former police officer, was brought to the forefront with allegations that he interefered with the promotion process of police officers, specifically Lts. Darryl Hurt and Tim Bacon. Even then, Adams emphatically denied any interference, though the taxpayer shelled out $550,000 to settle the case out of court. Well, all I could say, if we shelled out that amount of green backs, the two officers must have had a good case. It certainly appears to be a repeating pattern of this allegation of intereference with Adams, comes complete with a corresponding pattern of denial as well. Was it a corruptible surprise that a 'special panel' found no ethics violations by Adams? Even Retired Deputy Chief Pete Esquievel came to the rescue of Adams by telling the panel that he made it clear to the two officers that it was not a condition of the officers promotion. But approximately a year before, Esquievel came forward with a complaint against the police department in other matters as you will find in this tort claim. This tort claim also followed Police Officer Neely Nakamura's complaints against the Riverside Police Department in her tort claim. The distrubing claim by Nakamura against the Riverside Police Department was that she was illegall held, seized and searched, kidnapped and held without reason, do in part to her alleged sexual relationship with Deputy Chief Pete Esquievel.
CLICK LINK TO VIEW ESQUIEVEL DOCUMENT CLICK LINK TO VIEW NAKMURA DOCUMENT
In the case of Lt. Meredyth Meredith, the then Chief Russell Leach said he was preparing to promote her to captain. Then Assistant City Manager Tom DeSantis called Leach to put a stop to this. Leach found out later that Adams marched into a meeting with then City Manager Hudsion and DeSantis, and emphatically told them she should not be promoted. Of course, you guessed it, that was denied by Adams again. By the terms of the City Charter, members of the City Council are not supposed to be involved in the promotional process. Therefore, a violation of the City Charter would tell us that this would be job for the District Attorney. Well, we all know that will never be investigated, and if it is the complaint would be unfounded.
According to a deposition release by City Attorney Gregory Priamos of former Chief of Police Russell Leach, he states that complaints made by current Councilman and Mayoral Candidate William "Rusty" Bailey may have hindered Valmont Graham from being promoted. In addition, we find it interesting that a deposition of an ongoing case is released by our City Attorney. Was there some in fighting between Priamos and Bailey? According to then Assistant Manager Tom DeSantis, Bailey was embarassed or sleighted by what Graham had said, and was furious to the point of expressing his anger to city management. Did Bailey's act hinder the well deserved promotion of this black officer? Others mentioned that at the meeting Graham talked about police issues and answered questions from the audience. One question was not a police related, but Graham felt it was more in line of a Council question. He then handed the mike over to Bailey to answer. Was Bailey taken off guard because of the question, maybe he could not answer? In any case it appears he was embarrassed, then furious, not sure in what order. Then the focus was on Sgt. Valmont Graham. Was this simply a misunderstanding? A misunderstanding which has cost a vast amount of taxpayer monies and resources?
If there was some words of advice, what would Sergeant Joe Friday say to Councilman Steve Adam's? CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW CLIP
JUST FOR LAUGHS….
RIVERSIDE FORGOTTEN RIVERSIDE PLAZA 1960's, RIVERSIDE, CA
THE ALFRED M. LEWIS GROCERY STORE, RIVERSIDE, CA, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940, ON 10TH AND MAIN. (COURTESY OF THE UC RIVERSIDE, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES).
CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, THE PRIAMOS TAPE, COMING SOON..
UPDATE: 0818/2012: CITY ATTORNEY GREGORY PRIMOS BARS MISSION AMBULANCE LAWYER FROM LOBBYING CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO CHANGE THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE'S AMBULANCE POLICY. THIS IS ONE CITY OFFICE THAT NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME.. WHAT? DON'T TELL ME…AMR'S PETER HUBBARD AND GREGORY PRIMOS ARE ALLEGEDLY GOOD FRIENDS? I WOULD NEVE HAVE SEEN THAT COMING..
CITY OF RIVERSIDE: THE ISSUE OF REDISTRICTING: CHESS GAME, SLAMDUNK OR LANDGRAB?
Tags: cindy roth, city of riverside, councilman andy melendrez, councilman mike gardner, councilman paul davis, councilman william "rusty" bailey, duane roberts, greater riverside chamber of commerce, redistricting
NO PROPERTY SHOULD BENEFIT, AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS..
Last weeks lively debate in one instant went as follows.
I believe that's the way it needs to be handled again, Councilman Melendrez said. It should be referred to Governmental Affairs, that three council members should participate plus the community. Gardner is not part of the Governmental Affairs but I would invite him to participate.. and be an active participant.
After Melendrez stated his position he received a standing ovation…TMC believes that if Counilman Melendrez had shown this type of leadership before, he could have been in the Mayor's runoff, now the constituents have no choice.
OTHER COUNCIL HIGHLIGHTS…
Mayor Ron: I must repeat that the need for Conflict resolution is best done as a committee as a whole.
Councilman Melendrez: Mayor, it didn't work the last time, that's why I am here.
Councilman Davis: I have to openly admit that it was a mistake! It's about process, and the process was not followed properly. This is not about businesses but about residential desires. You look at the business desires compared to the residential desires. It's hard to weigh. In this case it's about the residential desires. I would like to make a motion, I respectfully disagree with you Mayor. Things are not done the same way they were 20 to 30 years ago (making these comment toward the mayor) things are done differently, we are wired in a wireless world and we need to respect that…that we move forward, rather than do things the old way, because a lot of the times they just don't work anymore. If the Governmental Committee would allow a substitution of Councilman Gardner. That would be my motion that we take no action and postpone 60 days..and I hoping to see a second ( a motion which Melendrez solidifies later, but the Mayor thinks it already happened).
It should be vetted between Gardner (Ward 1) and Melendrez (Ward 2). The rest of us five have no dog in the show here. This is about ward 1 and ward 2 they should get together. In other words it's about Melendrez and Gardner.
Davis offered stepping down from his Governmental Affairs position and allowing Ward 1 Mike Gardner to take his position in order that he can work with Melendrez at that level. We need to see what the residents would like to see, and taking into consideration the businesses as well. Taking the item 20 to the full council for a vote. Basically the two can come back with their findings and bring them to council so that council can make a better decision.
Councilman Gardner: This has been a much bigger issue than I thought it was. And for that I apologize.. There were things here that I did not see. I thought this would be relatively simple ( the issue of redistricting) and relatively not controversial. There were things here that I did not see, but incidently agrees with the mayor about dealing it as a whole…and…and…and..(continues to ramble).. an interruption by Councilman Melendrez while Gardner speaks and Melendrez says, I will second Pauls motion..Mayor replies..I thought you did, but Melendrez actually did not.
Gardner says he wouldn't offer a second but proposes to put this off for 60days..council to hold more meetings to talk…I think the community has spoken in more than one way.
Councilman Melendrez: Remember I'm a member of the Downtown Partnership, a committee member, the downtown partnership said they had it in the works since 2002, They didn't invite the councilman member until 2010.. I'm also a member of the Chamber Commerce, and get along with both the downtown partnership and the chamber, and supportive of the chamber, except when I think they are inaccurate. I think redistricting is here about community, not business. I strongly believe that. And when I look at what we as council, here to propose. We have ten items listed, I'm going to read four of them. We have ten items listed, I'm going to read four. Maintain Continutiy of existing wards to the extent possible, draw wards that are compact and continuous , use natural geographical boundaries to the extent possible, maintain cohesive neighborhood and community interest to the extent possible. I went through all ten and it said nothing about business. There is nothing here that says listen to what businesses have to say and route business around them.. So TMC ask, how does Cindy Roth by pass these guidelines and convince the Council to break them?
TMC's research came up with a interesting article on redistricting and a little know term called "gerrymandering". The article is called, Redistricting Now, Analysis of Ways to Prevent Gerrymandering. But a question to ponder, is 'gerrymandering' actually occurring in the City Riverside? Gerrymandering is a process and practice that attempts to establish a poltical advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating geographic boundries to create partisan or incumbent protected districts. Another reference point would be Article 21 of the California State Constitution regarding Redistricting.
Also the following talks about the masterplan for the Riverside Market Place, never mentions the East Side, talks about the area as being the Downtown Market Place.
It's always good to hear from Councilman Adams. When he talks to the people..I want to thank everybody here to night, it's a great demonstration of democracy. I work for the people of ward 7, and looking toward the crowd..says "you are our bosses". he went on to say…and this is why Riverside is the greatest city in the state. Finally and emphatically said.. I started to think, is this one of those "say what you mean and mean what you say moment"?
Brian Hawley, Vice Chair of the Greater Riverside Chamber. The chamber represents the interest of its members, this includes of several members in the Market Place who pay dues as if they already were. We believe a unified downtown benefits the entire city.
Self Appointed Citizen Auditor, Vivian Moreno: As I looked at redistricting, I went and read the information on your web site and the first thing that popped out to me was 'equalizing the population count for each ward'. How do you get into a controversy over a business division line out of that statement? What a waste of time. I stand before some intelligent people, I'm sure, and I don't understand the difference between population and business? This vote should have been a "slam dunk", and for what purpose are we here? Synergy for business? Thats what you all said last week. What happens to synergy for the people? That's your argument
Just because the chamber queen comes before you with her letter in hand, and her lovely little speech, you change the direction and the ultimate purpose of redistricting. Really? Let's just change ward one into Cindy Land. Andy Melendrez made a good argument that the Arlington Business District is in two wards. So your argument about making it one program, doesn't fly. The actual natural boundaries is the freeway (91 freeway) , not the railroad tracks Councilman Gardner… Just because the Downtown area is not very successful and their business district is (Market Place), you want to take it over. Insignificant? Well if it is so insignificant, than why are we doing it?
David Mudge said we market our offices and area as if it is Downtown. Leasing office space in Downtown is doing extremely well for us. If I marketed office space to someone in Orange County, as it was not Downtown, it wouldn't get much attraction. One of the big attractions is feeling that they are downtown.
Tom Schultz said, one of Webster's definitions of 'rape' is an outrageous violation. I consider this a rape of the East Side by the Chamber of Commerce.
Item #7: In 2003 the City issues a series of COP's (Certificates Of Participation) bonds to fund a succession of municipal projects. In doing so the central piece of city government was placed as collateral, City Hall, along with the new Lincoln Avenue Police Station, The Airport Fire station, Parking Garages 1,2 and 3 and some land known as The Corporation Yard.
It also appears that The Convention Center, The Downtown Library and some land called The Airport Clear Zone were also released from the 2003 COP's when financing was being assembled for the new Convention Center.
In the new transaction, the financing involved will still require the property known as Riverside City Hall and the new Lincoln Avenue Police Station to remain as collateral. As TMC understands public buildings used as collateral, the structure is not what is considered, it is the value of the land. This is item #7 being brought to City Council this Tuesday July 24, 2012, Be There! Don't forget to comment on our blog site.
Item #13, another $100,000.00 to Entrepreneurial Hospitality Corporation (EHC) to include a New Riverside Sport Commission for Public Relations and Advertising within the Riverside Convention and Visitors Bureau? And who are they? Opps, related to The Mission Inn's only Duane Roberts? In these trying economic times, do we really need to spend money we don't have? What about our City bill board which struts above the 91 freeway? Have we forgotten to be innovative and frugal?
What am hearing about the Mission Inn Museum? How about being taxpayer paid rent to Mr. Robert's, or is it Mrs. Robert's these days? The Redevelopment Agency of The City Of Riverside entered into lease agreement with Duane Roberts Historic Mission Inn for a pre-paid amount of $1,255,873.00 to December 23,2022. The Redevelopment Agency of The City Of Riverside also has the optional subleasing right, which it used to sublease to the Mission Inn Foundation, a non-profit organization, initiated by the City of Riverside.
CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW FULL FIRST CONTRACT CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW FULL SECOND CONTRACT
In this sublease, the Mission Inn Foundation pays no rent to the Redevelopment Agency of The City of Riverside. The argument in the lease is that it has already been paid for by The Redevelopment Agency. Is this a gift of public funds to the 'burrito king' Duane Roberts? Well the 100K voted through by City Council. Mayor Pre-Temp William "Rusty" Bailey even appeared to be giddy on the dais. Was he feeling the illusional power of the Mayor?
Item #23, Marcy Library now considered surplus property and to be sold as such? Fair market value in these times would be considered close to a 'fire sale', a few years back. But not long ago it was in negotiations to be transformed into the new "Lucky Geek Greek Restaurant". TMC artist rendering of what could have been…you can just smell the burgers cooking in the new kitchen situated in what was the government section of the library.
Item#12 July 10, 2012 city council approves what I call a tax by voter neglect without voter approval. The City of Riverside will assess a levy on property owners for Landscaping and Maintenance for Riverswalk in the La Sierra area. Each property owner will have to pay $225.73 in the 2012/2013 year.
By the way, the cities favorite son Albert A. Webb and Associates were appointed to assess the district, of course.
UPDATE: 08/01/2012: SAN BERNARDINO, CA FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY WITH OVER $1 BILLION IN DEBT. THIS IS A CITY OF 210,000 OWING A $1 BILLION, THAT'S APPROXIMATELY $4,761.91 PER PERSON. WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE TOTAL AGGREGATE DEBT $4.4 BILLION AND A CITY OF 300,000 THAT'S APPROXIAMATELY $14,677.00 PER INDIVIDUAL. ANOTHER ARTICLE STATES THE THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO WAS PUSHED INTO AN EARLY BANKRUPTCY DUE TO THE NON PAYMENT OF THREE SEPARATE JUDGEMENTS AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS.
UPDATE: 08/06/2012: WHAT IS IT WITH THE CITY'S NEW BUZZ WORD "THE FAB FIVE" THAT HAS LABELED A PARTICULAR GROUP OF PUBLIC SPEAKERS AT WEEKLY CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS? MORE TO COME..
UPDATE: 08/09/2012: REUTERS SAYS SAN BERNARDINO'S BANKRUPTCY MAY START A TREND FOR CALIFORNIA CITIES. THE UPSWING IN BANKRUPTCY FILINGS COULD SIGNIFY A LACK OF ABILITY, BUT A LACK OF WILLINGNESS TO PAY DEBT SERVICE AT THE EXPENSE OF OF OTHER FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS. YES, "YOU HAVE TO PAY THE RENT"! AS ONE COUNCILMAN RUSTY BAILEY TOLD ONE DOWNTOWN MERCHANT. YES INDEED…OTHERS ARE BLAMING UNSUSTAINABLE PENSIONS. AS MANY FEEL THESE UNION PENSION CONTRACTS WERE NEGOTIATED NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE TAXPAYER. THEREFORE A BREACH OF TRUST AND CONSEQUENTLY SHOULD LEGALLY BE DEEMED NULL AND VOID. ONE INTERESTING CONCEPT..
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE 1977 ALL AMERICAN CITY RECIPIENT KNOWN AS THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO? WHO'S NEXT? RUMOUR IS THE CITY OF COMPTON CALIFORNIA. BUT JUST AS BELL, MONTEBELLO, HERCULES, STOCKTON AND CITY OF RIVERSIDE…
THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO ALSO WAS THE RECEPIENT OF THE CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVMENT FOR EXCELLENCE IN FINANCIAL REPORTING IN 2010 BY THE GOVERNMENT FINANCE OFFICERS ASSICIATION. I GUESS THE QUESTION IS, DO THESE AWARDS ACTUALLY MEAN ANYTHING? WE RECENTLY AS A CITY WERE AWARDED MOST "INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY OF THE YEAR 2012", BY AN ORGANIZATION THAT CALLS THEMSELVES THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY FORUM. I WONDER WHAT WAS THE DECIDING POINT WAS? RUMOR IS WE HAD THEM WITH RESIDENTS EATING CHEETOS IN THEIR UNDERWEAR..
UPDATE: 08/10/2012: COUNCILMAN/MAYORAL CANDIDATE RUSTY BAILEY, COUNCILMAN STEVE ADAMS, FORMER ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER TOM DESANTIS AND FORMER CITY MANAGER BRAD HUDSON INTERFERED WITH THE POLICE PROMOTION PROCESS? ACCORDING TO THE PE, "BAILEY WAS FURIOUS"! WAS RUSTY BAILEY IN ANY WAY INSTRUMENTAL IN INTERFERING WITH THE PROMOTION PROCESS OF LT. VALMONT GRAHAM? HOW LONG CAN COUNCILMAN STEVE ADAMS DEFLECT THE INEVITABLE?
UPDATE:08/15/2012: OUR SOURCES HAVE STATED THAT COUNCILMAN ANDY MELENDREZ HAS EXPERIENCED A HEART ATTACK, AND IS IN INTENSIVE CARE. TO WHAT SEVERITY, WE DO NOT KNOW.
WHATEVER THE CONDITION, WE WISH COUNCILMAN ANDY MELENDREZ A SPEEDY RECOVERY.
RIVERSIDE FORGOTTEN.. MAGNOLIA AVENUE, RIVERSIDE, CA (CIRCA 1903)
BOMBSHELL! FORMER DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY RAYCHELE STERLING: CALL ME, I WILL REPRESENT YOU NO CHARGE! AND REDISTRICTING HYJNX FOR CINDY'S MARKETPLACE?
Posted: July 9, 2012 in Uncategorized
Tags: cindy roth, city attorney greg priamos, city attorney james penman, city manager scott barber, city of riverside, councilman andy melendrez, councilman mike gardner, councilman paul davis, councilman steve adams, councilman william "rusty" bailey, falsified documents, greater riverside chamber of commerce, mayor ron loveridge, raychele sterling, red light cameras, redistricting, richard roth for state senate, san bernardino, the purple pipe
At the June 26th City Council Meeting former deputy city attorney Raychele Sterling gave kudos to Councilman Paul Davis for calling City Attorney Gregory Priamos "out on his lies" the prior week…it was nice to see that somebody would actually do that.
She went on to say that I'm here to talk about Employee issues, which appear to be on going. People seem to be completely out of their minds, creating so much liability for you (referring to city management). As I have said, over and over again, this stems not from personnel issue, but is a policy issue. You continue to have employees sue you, you continue to have employees file claims, then your management comes back and says, geee.. maybe we should continue to retaliate against them because this will be great for our law suit and I'm sure the jury would really appreciate that. Well you might as well just add a couple more zeros to the check we have to pay out! Well it not changing..and you have to change because the law suits will continue to come..
She went on to say, that if Tom Boyd, Public Works Director, calls any special meetings, or you believe he is harassing you, or retaliating against you, or if he writes a work performance evaluation that you don't agree with..I want you to give me call, my number is 951-203-9952. I will be happy to represent you pro bono, no charge! Because this is going to stop! TMC learned that a city employee who filed a civil lawsuit against the city a little more than a month ago was being set up for an administrative hearing with one day notice. This was with Public Works Director Tom Boyd along with the usual suspects. When Sterling contacted them, and said she would be representing this employee, the administrative hearing was called off, and business as usual was stopped for the moment.
She went on to talk about her grandparents who are absolutely disgusted with the council, with respect to her 87 year old grandmother who she said, "I never heard a cuss word come out of her mouth". Her grandmother said, " you go there (to city council meetings) and they might as well give you the finger".
"We have no government here", Sterling said, "you give all your power to Scott, your city manager, and you don't monitor anything that he is doing, and he makes you end up looking like asses a lot of the times, and that's really unfortunate, especially for people running for mayor. You don't want to be associated with that Rusty. You said Jesus Christ is your inspiration. I can't ever think of an situation where Jesus Christ would ever under any circumstances permit employees to be just tortured the way that they are here at the City, and you have an obligation, not only as a Councilman and a Christian to make sure that stops immediately"
Public speaker Paul Chavez spoke prior to Sterling regarding an issue that occurred the prior week concerning workshop highlighting redistricting. Mr. Chavez was surprised and disappointed in what the council did. He said, "usually when you have a workshop, you don't take a vote, because it is a workshop……you don't make that type of a decision, you can have a concept of which way you want to go, or a direction of where you want to go, but you don't make a decision". He went on to say that a vote was taken.. "I don't know if it is legal or not… that's why you have a city attorney", (referencing City Attorney Gregory Priamos). "The point that was very disturbing, was that the chamber (referencing the Greater Riverside Chamber of Commerce presided by CEO/ President Cindy Roth), came in and made a proposal. I attended some of the other meetings for redistricting and nothing was mentioned. Up to the last minute it was a 'workshop', you were all here (referencing the council), and you heard everybody talking about different things of what they like and disliked."
"The chamber came in and told you that they wanted the 'Market Place'", (a district located in Councilman Andy Melendrez's Ward). And you said (the present council without Concilman Andy Melendrez present) "that's a good idea, let's all take it"! Chavez said "the one that wasn't spoken to was Mr. Melendrez (Councilman Melendrez), he was taken off guard. That was very good planning for the chamber, and you guys all went for it. It makes me very disappointed in all of you. Also, it shows that those who are running for mayor, what kind of person are you? (I'd imagine Chavez was referring to Councilman "Rusty" Bailey who claims to be an independent voice for Riverside). Is that what we want as citizens, you don't listen to us.. that's the way I say. I had a friend that was there and I asked him if you were going to the city council, he said no , what for? They just look at you, they let you talk but they don't really hear you or acknowledge what you saying . So if this continues on you may have a lawsuit on your bench again, just as it has happened before and they have won, and we as taxpayer have to pay for that. I wish you would reconsider when this comes up again, and stand for the people, not for the chamber, or our you guys bought out"?
While others in the community are calling this a "land grab" or "underhanded", Dan Berstein explained this bit of shenanigans in the following blog posting, Eastside to Riverside: We Wuz Robbed! Even PE's Alicia Robinson had something to say in her blog posting Redistricting Riverside: Carving Up The Eastside. TMC has spoken about this time and time again about what appears to be an incestuous relationship between the Chamber and the City of Riverside. Cindy Roth who is president/CEO of the Greater Riverside Chamber, incidently her husband Richard Roth who has a position on the chamber, who also does work legal work for the City of Riverside and is runnig for State Senate and has the endorsement of the Mayor Ron Loveridge.. The residents and constituents of Riverside are disgusted and apathetic, and feel they have no recourse to make change as should appropriately be done by elected officials who flip flop on issues and do not listen to the real needs of the community. Some have even used religion as a backdrop, and throwing citizen concerns through the back door..
I guess the question is for Councilpeople, anything Cindy wants, Cindy gets? What would give Cindy Roth that much prominence? Is it such a big deal to take the Marketplace and integrate it with the Downtown? Why would they consider doing this in the first place? Is it because it's technically part of the East Side, and that has a negative connotation with many? If we christened the East Side Marketplace as now part of Downtown, would the perceived visual perceptions change and now not be associated with the current perceptions of that nasty East Side? Will the "East Side" now be just known as "the other side of the tracks"? But Riverside Chamber's, President/CEO, Cindy Roth wanted it that way, and the council thought it was a good idea. Anything Cindy wants, Cindy gets? For whatever reason it was done, what can I say, even independent voice of the people Rusty Bailey thought it was a good idea. But Roth's connections with the cities who's who are appearing to be very clear.
Even her husband Richard Roth currently running for State Senate has clear ties with the City of Riverside by doing legal work for them. Not to mention, he is part of the Board of Directors for the Riverside Chamber. But now presented as the new improved and patriotic General Richard Roth for Senate. Roth in conjunction with former Riverside Councilman Dom Betro had at a luncheon meeting with Democratic Senate Candidate Steve Clute, who was asked to step down from his running position….something for the community to think about regarding the generalisimo hardballing the Senate position…
Voilà, Now a Marketable Item for the Political Marketplace…
Richard Roth's endorsements for senate are compelling, beginning with our Mayor Ron Loveridge and Jack Clark of Best,Best & Krieger, (doesn't the City just hand over treasure chests of money for overpriced legal work to the Krieger)? The Press Enterprise endorses Richard Roth! Now let's look at Cindy Roth's Riverside Chamber Board of Directors. Ahh, Peter Hubbard of American Medical Response, this is getting interesting…and it also appears that The Press Enterprise's very own Ron Redfern is on Cindy's Board of Directors for the Greater Riverside Chamber. Richard Roth who had his ties to Republicans, now running as a Democrat, is all of sudden the next best thing to sliced smoked ham. But can the smoke flavor of this latest innovation lose its taste over time? Any way you slice it everyone appears to be incestuously connected in more ways than one?
But what is the big deal? there only businesses? Well, you already know how business friendly the City of Riverside can be, just take a stroll down the Main Street Mall.
TMC ARTIST RENDERING OF WHAT THE NEW MARKETPLACE MAY LOOK LIKE.
UPDATE: 07/10/2012: CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. HOW WILL THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE'S FINANCIAL ISSUES PLAY OUT? MAMMOTH LAKES, CA JUST FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY LAST WEEK BECAUSE IT COULD NOT AFFORD TO PAY OUT $43 MILLION DOLLAR JUDGEMENT WON BY A DEVELOPER. IS THE CITY OF CUDAHY NEXT?
THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE NAMED THE 'MOST INTELLIGENT CITY', PRIMARILY DUE TO TECHNOLOGY. HIGH TECH SURADO SOFTWARE COMPANY NOW DEFUNCT, AFTER RECEIVING $350,000.00 OF PUBLIC FUNDS (THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE GAVE $300,000.00 AND THE COUNTY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY GAVE THEM $50,000.00), BUT OWING EMPLOYEES IN EXCESS OF $250,000.00. CITY OF RIVERSIDE NOT SO INTELLIGENT? WILL THIS BE THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE'S SOLYNDRA?
IT WAS TO LATE FOR SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS AND STAFF TO HIT THE TOWN DRINKING AT THE USUAL WATERING HOLES AS THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING WENT ON BEYOND THE 12 MIDNIGHT HOUR.
THE REDISTRICTING ISSUE VOTED BY CITY COUNCIL 6-0 TO TAKE THIS ISSUE TO GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS. CRITICISM OF THE COUNCIL CAME UNDERFIRE WEEKS AGO WHEN RIVERSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CEO/PRESIDENT CINDY ROTH MADE THE SUGGESTION THAT 'THE MARKETPLACE' (PART OF COUNCILMAN ANDY MELENDREZ'S WARD 2) BE PART OF DOWNTOWN (WARD 1 COUNCILMAN MIKE GARDNER'S DISTRICT). WHILE A PACKED HOUSE OF RESIDENT AND BUSINESS OWNERS FILLED COUNCIL CHAMBER, THE MAJORITY SPOKE AGAINST THE MOVE. PUBLIC SPEAKER, CHRISTINA DURAN EVEN SUBMITTED AND PLACED COUNCIL ON NOTICE WITH AN OBJECTION LETTER. THOSE IN FAVOR WERE THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP AND OF COURSE, THE GREATER RIVERSIDE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, BOTH WHO RECEIVE CITY TAXPAYER MONIES FOR THEIR ENDEAVORS. COUNCILMAN MELENDREZ COMMENTED ON THE TRUE PURPOSE OF RESDRICTING. REDISTRICTING IS ABOUT POPULATION, AND NOWHERE IT IS TO BE USED TO FAVOR BUSINESSES. FOR THE MOMENT, 'THE CINDY LAND' DEBACLE REMAINS ON HOLD.
THE ISSUE OF FUNDING FOR THE PURPLE PIPE REMAINS IN LIMBO FOR THE MOMENT, WHILE A PACKED HOUSE SPOKE AGAINST IT. PUBLIC SPEAKER SCOTT SIMPSON PROVIDED AND PLACED THE CITY ON NOTICE WITH AN OBJECTION LETTER. SIMPSON WENT BEYOND THE 3 MINUTES WHICH TRIGGERED RONNY'S BOUNCERS (RPD) TO ESCORT HIM FROM THE PODIUM. AS SIMPSON MOVED AWAY FROM THE PODIUM AND BACK TO HIS SEAT, HE CONTINUED TO READ HIS OBJECTION. THAT WAS A SIGHT TO SEE.. FOR THAT, TMC SHOUTS OUT, A 'THAT A BOY'! THE CITIZENS ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE…
TMC HAS OBTAINED SCOTT SIMPSON'S OBJECTION LETTER TO THE PURPLE PIPE WHICH WAS PRESENTED AT CITY COUNCIL.
CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW FULL OBJECTION LETTER
QUESTIONS AROSE IF RECLAIMED WATER IS SAFE FOR PLANTS, AND IF PEOPLE AND CHILDREN ARE SAFE ON THE GROUNDS WHERE IT IS USED. RIVERSIDE CITRUS GROWERS ALREADY MADE THEIR CASE THAT IT CANNOT BE USED FOR CITRUS. ON SAFETY AND CEQA GUIDELINES (CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT), THE CITY SAID THEY WERE ABLE TO 'BY PASS' CEQA. LEAVING QUESTIONS OF HOW CAN THE ISSUE OF THE SAFETY OF RECLAIMED WATER BYPASS CEQA?
THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE RED LIGHT CAMERA STAY, AFTER MAYOR BREAKS 3-3 COUNCIL TIE (COUNCILMAN MELENDREZ, MAC ARTHUR AND DAVIS VOTE AGAINST THEIR CONTINUED USE) WITH MAYOR LOVERIDGE BRINGING IN THE DECIDING VOTE TO FURTHER STUDY THE ISSUE OF MAKING IT COST EFFECTIVE. COUNCILMAN STEVE ADAMS LOBBIES IN FAVOR OF CAMERAS, AND USES EXAMPLES OF SAFETY AND DEATHS, AND AS ADAMS SAYS..'BODIES'. MANY CITIES ALTOGETHER HAVE DISMANTLED RED LIGHT CAMERAS DUE TO COST, SAFETY ISSUES AND THE USE OF COMPANY PSUEDO STATISTICS DEMONSTRATING THAT THEY MAKE A DIFFERENCE. COUNCILMAN ADAMS HAS BEEN AT THE BRUNT OF CRITICISM REGARDING ISSUES OF NEPOTISM DUE HIS BROTHER RON ADAMS HIRED AS A RED LIGHT CAMERA PHOTO EXPERT.
WATER RESPONSES FROM CITY COUNCIL COMING SOON!
UPDATE: 07/13/2012: CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION LAUNCHED AGAINST THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO REGARDING ALLEGATIONS OF FALSIFICATION OF DOCUMENTS. OUR THE RAINCROSS BELLS RINGING? THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND THE DA'S OFFICE ARE INVESTIGATING THE ALLEGATIONS OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY IN THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO. SAN BERNARDINO CITY ATTORNEY JAME PENMAN SAID HE HAD BEEN PRESENTED DOCUMENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN ALLEGEDLY BEEN FALSIFIED WHICH MASKED THE CITY'S DEFICIT FOR 13 (LUCKY NUMBER) OF THE PAST 16 YEARS.
FACEBOOK ONLY? THE PRESS ENTERPRISE HAS EXPRESSED THEIR DESIRE TO THE COMMENT SECTION TO PRIMARILY USE FACEBOOK. WORKING TO CURVE UNDESIRABLE COMMENTS AND PREVENT ANONYMOUS COMMENTERS SPEAKING WHILE EATING CHEETOS IN THEIR UNDERWEAR, WELL, AGAIN, AS MANY HAVE SAID, THIS IS RIVERSIDE.. BUT MANY ARE ASKING, IS THIS A PLOY FROM THE DOUBLE DIPPING CHIEF OF POLICE? ARE WE TO NOW EXPECT PERFECTLY EXPRESSED OPINIONS AS EXPECTED IN A PERFECTLY POLITICALLY CORRECT NEWSPAPER? BUT NOW THE CHIEF CAN MONITOR AND PERFECTLY SEE THE FACES.. BUT I GUESS FOR POLICE WORK, 'WE TIP' ANONYMOUS HOTLINE IS ACCEPTABLE?
"I want to live in a society that people can voice unpopular opinions because I know as result of that a society grows and matures," – Hugh Hefner
THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO: BID RIGGING? POLICE INVESTIGATE.. WEREN'T CLAIMS OF BID FAVORITISM BROUGHT UP IN THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE?
UPDATE: 07/17/2012: WILL RON BRING THE LOVE ON HOME TO BILL BAILEY? THE MAYOR'S ENDORSEMENT FOR THE MAYOR'S CANDIDANCY..WHO WILL IT BE? THE GIGGLES OF EXCITEMENT ARE APPEARING TO OCCUR ON MAYOR CANDIDATE'S BAILEY'S FACEBOOK PAGE, AS HE EXPRESSES A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE RELEASED IN THE NEXT 48 HOURS REGARDING A SIGNIFICANT ENDORSEMENT…
UPDATE: 07/17/2012: 12 NOON: MAYOR RON SENDS THE LOVE HOME BY ENDORSING WILLIAM "RUSTY" BAILEY FOR MAYOR…
UPDATE: 07/19/2012: WHAT ISSUE WILL MAYORAL CANDIDATE ED ADKISON CALL HIS OPPONENT WILLIAM "RUSTY" BAILEY ON? ADKISON PLANS TO PRESENT THESE ISSUES IN A PRESS CONFERENCE THURSDAY 07/19/2012 AT 11:00AM IN FRONT OF CITY HALL.
AT TODAYS PRESS CONFERENCE, ADKISON PRESENTED HIS BANCRUPTCY PREVENTION PLAN AND SIGNED A PLEDGE TO DO SO. HE CHALLENGED RUSTY TO DO THE SAME. THIS PLAN IS NEEDED, WITH A REJECTIONS FROM THE STATE FINANCE DEPARTMENT IN EXCESS OF $90 MILLION AND A NEW 218 LAW SUIT, THE GENERAL FUND WILL BE HIT HARD, CUTS NEED TO BE MADE STARTING WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE! IS THERE MORE SALICIOUS INFORMATION COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE WITH REGARDS TO OPPONENT WILLIAM "RUSTY" BAILEY?
WAS ATTORNEY FOR THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AND GENERALISIMO RICHARD ROTH'S OFFER TO SERGENT VALMONT GRAHAM OF A PROMOTION TO LIEUTENANT AND $25,000.00 TURNED DOWN? LOW BALLING IS A COMMON PRACTICE THE CITY TAKES ON TO MESS WITH THE OTHER ATTORNEY.
THE GAMES ARE ON AND THE NEGOTIATIONS HAVE YET TO BE SETTLED.
RIVERSIDE FORGOTTEN… MAIN STREET, LOOKING FROM CURRENT CITY HALL (CIRCA 1930)
CITY OF RIVERSIDE: WHAT COLOR IS OUR MONEY? WHITE, BROWN, YELLOW, RED OR BLACK? COMMENTER SAYS ROTH LAUGHS AT THE EASE OF COLLECTING A BIG PAYCHECK FOR DOING NOTHING..
Posted: April 12, 2012 in Uncategorized
Tags: cindy roth, city of riverside, code enforcement, councilman mike gardner, councilman paul davis, councilman william "rusty" bailey, greater riverside chamber, mayor ron loveridge, purple pipe, richard roth esquire, riverside public works, storm drain, tom boyd, weed abatement
UPDATE: 04/20/2012: City Council has allocated time on Tuesday 04/20/2012 for President/CEO Cindy Roth to present and discuss Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce and its relationship to the City of Riverside. Questions have been raised of City's role in funding via taxpayer allocations of certain projects etc. with the Chamber. The Greater Riverside Chamber is a non-profit, and questions have also been raised regards to conflict of interest as some have contracts with the city and its influence on particular projects which should only be a function between the council, mayor and the Riverside constituents.
UPDATE:04/19/2012: According to Former City Councilman and Mayoral Candidate Ed Adkison, City Manager Scott Barber divulged to him that the City of Riverside will have a $10 million dollar deficit. Salvador Santana, of The Truth Publication, stated that the budget was balanced, this info he received in a recent 3:00 am meeting at the home of Finance Director Bret Mason. Councilman Mike Gardner states we may have to use some of our reserves, but we have a balanced budget (I didn't know the city had reserves, no one is yet able to pin point it). According to the public records request act, TMC still sticks to premise that the City has more like a $90 million deficit.
UPDATE: 04/13/2012: BLOCKED WEBSITES HIGHLIGHTS TENSIONS BETWEEN COUNCIL, CRITICS. Article in PE regarding the blocking of the Thirty Miles of Corruption on public city sites. ACLU notified according to the Five Before Midnight blog, and has placed the City of Riverside on watch.
Most of the money to the chamber was donated between the years of 2005-2007 when Brad Hudson was city manager. Cindy Roth CEO/ President of the Greater Riverside Chamber, a non-profit organization, was vehement against the city having a Citizen's Auditing Committee.
CINDY ROTH, PRESIDENT/CEO OF THE GREATER RIVERSIDE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
As for the Greater Riverside Chamber of Commerce, it does nothing but collect paychecks. The office could be used for rental for income to the city. Cindy Roth laughs at how easy it is to hold a title and collect a big check and do nothing for it. But that seems to be common with friends of friends. Several citizens looked to the Chamber for help and Cindy Roth never got back to them and really doesn't cared as the fact no one will say anything to her. — Airjackie, Commenter on the Press Enterprise 5:38 PM on 04/22/2012
Why would a non-profit care about local citizens participating in an oversite of the communities coffers? Why would such an entity have presidence over the will of the people? Further, Ms. Roth states that the City's Finance Committee would suffice. This has been a committee that has had an inconsistent track record of meeting, there have been times whereby it met twice a year..but since 2010 we see an up swing in Finance Committee Meeting, which is a good sign for the community.
FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETINGS 1999-2010 (CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW)
What would be so wrong for true dedicated oversite committee of local citizens for the community's coffers? What is Ms. Roth afraid of ? Is the Greater Riverside Chamber really a lobbying group? Why would it matter to a non-profit organization such as the Chamber? Well this struck us as odd, so we did a little investigation and found the following.
What many have also brought to our attention are the board members. Many who receive contracts with the city, such as BB&K attorney Howard Golds and also Richard Roth, Attorney and husband for Cindy Roth, who is also running for Congress under General Richard Roth and endorsed by Mayor Ron Loveridge.
Also there was a great disparity which was evident between chambers, but is it legal to donate tax payer money to non-profits? Click on the link under the image to view the full document.
GREATER RIVERSIDE CHAMBER HISPANIC CHAMBER ASIAN INDIAN CHAMBER AFRICAN AM. CHAMBER
CITY COUNCIL TUESDAY AGENDA ITEMS APRIL 10, 2012:
ITEM #14 They simply want to raise your water rates from $2.83 to $5.82, they wanted actually to raise it to $10.00 Evidently Public Works is unable to work within their budget?
CLICK THIS LINK TO VIEW COMPLETE DOCUMENT
On the above Public Works document, on page four, it mentions that the Greater Riverside Chamber voted to increase our rate from $2.83 to $5.82. This sends a message to the community residents that there is an underlying connnection with this particular non-profit and the city. Could we consider that there may be a conflict of interest with some of the board members?
So if we don't pass this we will have to take it from the general fund.. According to Barber, the loss of Redevelopment has a direct impact on the General Fund to the extent of $6 million. Therefore an already strapped General Fund will have to make up the slack of programs dependent on it. He said it is a tax increase, but that was put in place before proposition 218, and therefore it is not subject to a vote. This is a tax increase, City Manager Scott Barber said, and that is partly why I believe the Greater Riverside Chamber supported it. Not because they receive financial support from the city, most of the support that the Chamber receives from the City goes to pay Festival of Lights and Keeping Riverside Clean and Beautiful, and thats what financially goes to support the chamber and that's what needed to be said. Well this needs to be said, I would imagine that the Greater Riverside Chamber is under city contract for services related with the Festival of Lights and Keeping Riverside Clean and Beautiful.
Since the Storm Drain issue is about keeping curbs clean of debris. Chris Mac Arthur made mention to the problem of street sweeping both sides of the street on the same day. We can't have friends or family over… of course we know we will be ticketed. you cant have any activity on those days.
Councilman Steve Adams is confused about the time line regarding the Federal Mandate of the Storm Drain issue, it was actually put in place in 1948, not 10 or 20 years ago. These are mandates by the Federal Government that are unfunded.
Vivian Moreno Councilman Mike Gardner had suggested that we increase the rate from $2.83 to $5.82 Have you asked the citizens of Riverisde to sweep their curb, like you you make us clean the alley ways, which is actually your alley way. The Greater Riverside Chamber will approve anything that has any increases, because they need their 'financial fix'.
Dvonne Pitruzzello, Lower the rates and let us spend our money here in Riverside. Your sucking the residents dry, it may go along with the mayors plan to remove the low to moderate out and middle to upper income residents in, in order to pay these taxes, but in terms of economics, this does not work. Stop bleeding the citizens, especially for the elderly, this is there food money.
In reference to this isssue, Councilman Paul Davis vehemently stated, "I may stand alone, but I will not do this tax"! Passes 6-1… and yes, even our "independent voice for Riverside" William "Rusty" Bailey voted for it. TMC thanks Councilman Paul Davis for being an independent voice for Riverside, standing for people not politics, demanding fiscal responsibility and challenging the status quo to improve our quality of life. Wow, that just sounded vaguely familiar..
So has Mr. Barber ever thought of cut backs? Why again hit and terrorize the residents with more increases. Residents have to financially cut back, why can't the city? Residents are made to live within their means, why not the city? What would the city do, if they didn't have the power to tax and implement such fees etc.? They would have to be like us, forced to live within their means.
ITEM # 25 We have a resignation in the Human Resource Department of Tyrell H. Lawyer, Commission on Disabilities, a year before the contract ends, March 1, 2013. Does anybody want to hear Tyrell's story? I sure do..
ITEM # 28 Continue an agreement with the Goeske Center to pay their electrical bill and and their landscaping bill. The cost to the tax payer $403,590.00 from the General Fund. The Janet Goeske Center is a non-profit organization, and questions have been raised if this monies our considered a gift of public funds.
PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE APRIL 6, 2012 PURPLE PIPE PROGRAM:
On April 6, 2012 at the Board of Public Utilities Meeting to allow public comment on the issue of the purple pipe. The purple pipe program is a new water reclamation program the city would like to implement, with of course, you paying the bill.
Not only was this meeting for the leyving of new fees for the purple pipe program, but for other issues. One issue that we noticed, was Item #14 on the Public Utilities Board Meeting on their consent calender which was to approve a purchase order for the purchase and installation of office furniture for 3750 University Avenue. Which was BB&K's office space, whereby the City of Riverside assumed their lease, costing taxpayers $175,234.00 per month. Well the furniture cost indicated in this item is for $280,691.84, but it doesn't stop there. They snuck in a change order, just in case they needed even more furniture, for $200,000.00 Usually change orders are brought back to council to be approved due to an unforeseen action which escalates the cost. Therefore a justification needs to be brought to the attention of the council or board. So the total cost for new furniture for their new place is $480,691.84, where does the old furniture go? To that great office in the sky, I guess? So, if they were to use their old furniture, and I'm sure it is not that old, we would have Tom Boyd's needed $345,310.00 to pay for his storm drain, with something left over for a rainy day. But of course, they may just use it for lunch.
But let's take it a step further, the adopt a tree program, which is Item #13 the Tree Power Program. It allows Public Works to pay out a maximum to each vendor or $150,000.00, but the total program is capped at $500,000.00
Questions are being asked on the purple pipe tax. Some are questioning the extra expense Public Utilities recommends for more furniture. Out with the old, in with the new style? at taxpayer expense? ..during a down economy? Is the purple pipe program being push to help pay the rent for BB&K's old lease, but now the City's new lease (or should I say we the taxpayer's new lease)? When we swap out, or take over BB&K's lease, it will cost the taxpayer $175,234.00 per month. Excessive? According to market statistics we will be paying $1.00/ sq. ft. over current market trends.
Mary Sheldon, Five Before Midnight Blog, blasted Councilman Steve Adams last weeks response of discrimination being funny.. Discrimination isn't funny when at a recent settlement cost the taxpayers $1.6 million.
Dvonne Pitruzzello, 2012 Mayoral Candidate, said that we need the same type of reporting for the city attorney, that we have for the city manager discretionary spending. Also stated regarding discrimination law suits, that we can lose federal and state funding if a city has to many discrimination law suits, and that's not funny! Further, she wanted to find out when developer Mark Rubin's property was transferred, because I see Councilman Mike Gardner's mayoral signs there, and I thought the city owned those properties.
Self Proclaimed Citizen Auditor Vivian Moreno, said if we cleaned our own street and paid for our own trees, we would have enough money left over that we wouldn't have to pay for the purple pipe. To add to this comment, citizens are not recognized or thanked for the expense of cleaning back alleys, which is actually the city's back alley. But they do this under the duress of expensive code enforcement fines. Citizens forced to clean city property under the threat of being fined…now that doesn't sound like freedom, but it does sound like an oxymoron.
Former Assistant Deputy Attorney Raychele Sterling spoke of contract bids and prevailing wage increases, since interum public works director tom Boyd didn't know this basic bit of info. April 3, 2012 at City Council Ms. Sterling spoke about the public works performance evaluation form which had not been reviewed by the City Attorney's office, and considered "a lottery ticket" for employment lawyers. Without further adieu here is the infamous 'Tom Boyd Special.'
UPDATE: 04.12.2012: IN THE NEWS, COUNCILMAN STEVE ADAMS AGAIN ATTEMPTS TO IMPOSE CONTAINER FEES ON PASSING TRAINS. TMC ADDRESSED THIS ISSUE SOMETIME BACK WITH THE ARTICLE BELOW, WHEREBY A JUDGE WOULD NOT ALLOW THIS ATTEMPTED FEE. THERE WAS EXTRODINARY LEGAL COST TO THE TAXPAYER IN LEGAL FEES AND AGAIN COUNCILMAN ADAMS ATTEMPTS TO PROPOSE TO THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE THAT THE TAXPAYER PAY AN OUTSIDE CONSULTANT IN DALLAS, TEXAS $160.000.00 TO PERSUADE OFFICIALS AT VARIOUS PORTS THAT THESE FEES ARE NECESSSARY FOR PROJECTS SUCH AS RAILROAD GRADE SEPARATIONS.. IS THIS DALLAS BASED CONSULTANT REALLY A LOBBYIST?
CITY OF RIVERSIDE VS. PORT OF LONG BEACH: COURT STATES THE ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL CAN PASS WITHOUT GREASING EMERALD CITY!
ALSO IN THE NEWS IS THE MAYORAL CANDIDATE RACE, WITH A NEW PRESS ENTERPRISE ARTICLE ON THE VIEWS OF THE MAYORAL CANDIDATES.
FAIRMONT PARK HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT BULLDOZED WITH POLICE ESCORT ACCORDING TO PRESS ENTERPRISE.
WASTE CONTINUES, TMC ENDORSES MAYORAL CANDIDATE DVONNE PITRUZZELLO
TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE'S MOST "SLANDEROUS" AND MEZZSPELLED, "MISSPELLED" AND "OPINIONATED" BLOG SITE! TEMPORARILY BLOCKED BY THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE AT PUBLIC ACCESS SITES WITHIN THE CITY, THEN UNBLOCKED. I GUESS YOU CANNOT DO THAT ACCORDING TO ACLU. RATED ONE STAR OUT OF FIVE IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY APPROVAL RATINGS.. TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE'S DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE'S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST… WE WILL HAVE TO ASK GREGORY ABOUT THAT ONE… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE'S FOR YOUR SUPPORT! COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS! EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT OR FOR CONTACT! THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM
CITY OF RIVERSIDE: TRUTH, FREE SPEECH AND THE ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT GANG..
Tags: anti-establishment gang, city of riverside, councilman chris mac arthur, councilman mike gardner, councilman steve adams, councilman william "rusty" bailey, free speech
An attack of Freedom of Speech? Speakers of discourse are now the anti-establishment gang? Or is it truly a problem with the female gender speaking out according to a local blog editor and his publication? Or has one been placed on the naughty list of the minister of propaganda? Or even labeled as enemy of the people? What does the term anti-establishment mean? We can say, that it is marked by opposition or hostility to conventional social, political, or economic values or principles… well, ok.. But what happens when one changes the principles of a primary government establishment? The primary governing establishment would be what was originally designed by our forefathers. This in essence is ruled by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. When these principles become so convoluted to the extent of being oppressive to the extent of examples such as excess taxes, an anti-establishment view would be in order and acceptable. In America, it is part of our checks and balance system. It is a system developed to maintain focus and prevent diversion from our Constitutional principles. Therefore, a system of government, which would be governed by the people for the people. And those in government whom are representatives of the people, who do not follow these principles, can be removed at a whim.
Our forefathers were also sensitive to any government leader reaching the point of royalty. George Washington refused to be called by any type of glamorous titles. He insisted that he only be addressed by the simple title of "Mr. President", In respect to our forefathers views with respect to authority, the disrespect toward the people by governing representatives was considered more egregious. It is therefore the duty of each American to keep watch on our representatives. We were warned by our forefathers that if we leave this job whole heartedly to their authority the freedoms that we hold can and will become non-existent. The City of Riverside not long ago allowed 5 minutes for public speaking, it is now 3 minutes. Countries such as Cuba which never had a democratic form of government continue to suffer. One could therefore be jailed or even killed for simply thinking or speaking under Cuba's current and past dictator's such as Castro and Batista.
But when the connection is there, of the discourse and conspiracy of politicians and a publication we must therefore look at the individuals. Councilman Mike Gardner, Councilman Steve Adams and Councilman Chris Mac Arthur who financially support this site at one time or another, is a site which has a track record of innuendos and derogatory comments towards woman. One Councilman's Aid, such as that of Chris Mac Arthur, have called woman 'idiots', ' bitches' and even taken photographs for record purposes. Is this thought prevalent and reflective of some at city hall or even some on the dais? Who's in charge? Them or 'we the people'? Or have we become Cuba? To carefully pick and choose what we can say and how we can say it? Or will the only acceptable form of 'free speech' become a series of platitudes and praises for our leadership? Therefore relieving ourselves of any local and government retribution? Or do we continue to further misinterpret the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights for the benefit of a preferential few? As all American's currently and secretly feel, we won't stand for it, our bible is the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and it should be respected, and not be denigrated..
There are many times when, even though there is freedom of the press and freedom of speech, it is hard to get a hearing for certain noble causes. I often think that we, all of us, should think very much more carefully than we do about what we mean by freedom of speech, by freedom of the press, by freedom of assembly. I sometimes am much worried by the tendency that exists among certain groups in our country today to consider that these are rights are only for people who think as they do, that they are not rights for the people who disagree with them. I believe that you must apply to all groups the same rights, to all forms of thought, to all forms of expression, the same liberties. Otherwise, you practically deny the fact that you trust the people to choose for themselves, in a majority, what is wise and what is right. And when you do that, you deny the possibility of having a democracy. –Eleanor Roosevelt
Some on the dais have even abused the privilege to represent their constituents by their attitudes of entitlements of insurmountable expenses to the taxpayer. Others have even violated their oath and fiduciary duty to the proper over site of financials, to the extent of negligence. Others have had preferential treatment within our city government, when it came to criminal, vehicle and code violations.
But now we have a publication which questions what is said as not proper and disrespectful. And one must follow the rules. It is this same publication editor who had interrupted and violated the same rules of public speaking, had to be admonished by the mayor back in a City Council Meeting November 6, 2012.
Since many who speak at city council are woman. Does this publication of truth believe that our constitution and the freedoms under the Bill of rights apply to all Americans?.. the premise is, whenever our current form of government diverts from our Constitution and Bill of Rights, that favors the elements of scrutiny and suspicion. What is so divisive of that? It is part of our history of checks and balances. Public records don not lie, they are the documents of our elected representatives office activities. It is also the duty of all Americans to understand them and question them.
We welcome all forms of free speech in terms of publications. Even publications which claims to print what no one else will. Even when they depict woman as bloodied backstabbers and sensual silhouettes. Even when commenters depict woman as ornaments to appeal to the eyes of men, where they should be placed back in the kitchen where they belong, and don't they know men are in charge? A suttle inference that woman should stay out of the political arena? And even the right for someone as a Councilman to say 'Good Job' to this publication and support the publications train of thought, but the truth of the matter is that it only reflects upon the individual and their representative focus…
Public speaking was meant to be warm and cold, divisive and confrontational, loud and quiet, acceptable and unacceptable, to praise and be critical. The premise is, that all points of view contribute to a new formation of thought. Newly sculpted thought in our leadership can create change in our government, and therefore benefit the citizens they represent.. Both sides of the spectrum of thought must be allowed no matter how divisive it appears, it is a necessary adjunct to the attainment and perseverance of freedom of speech…
Many in the Jehovah Witness Community were disturbed by this submission, a blog financially supported by Councilman Steve Adams, Mayoral Candidate and current Councilman Mike Gardner and Councilman Chris Mac Arthur:
UPDATE: 03/25/2012: FIRST IT'S CANCELED, NOW WE HAVE A SPECIAL FINANCE MEETING SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY 26, 2012 FOR 1 PM AT CITY HALL. THE AGENDA ITEMS: FOR THE CREATION OF A CITIZENS AUDIT COMMITTEE AND TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION TO INCREASE STORM DRAIN RATES FROM $2.83 TO $10.00. IF YOU ASK ME THAT'S A HUGE INCREASE IN THESE ECONOMIC TIMES.
TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE'S MOST "SLANDEROUS" AND MEZZSPELLED, "MISSPELLED" AND "OPINIONATED" BLOG SITE! TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE'S DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, AND PROSSIBLY POSSIBLY ON FILE WITH THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE'S POTENTIAL SLAPP SUIT LIST… WE WILL HAVE TO ASK GREGORY ABOUT THAT ONE… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE'S FOR YOUR SUPPORT! COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS! EMAIL ANONYMOUSLY WITH YOUR DIRT OR FOR CONTACT! THIRTYMILESCORRUPTION@HOTMAIL.COM
CITY OF RIVERSIDE: TMC WANT'S THE DIRT!
Tags: andy melendez, Brad Hudson, chris mac arthur, city of riverside, councilman william "rusty" bailey, dirt, greg priamos, mayor ron loveridge, mike gardner, nancy hart, paul davis, paul sundeen, steve adams
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TMC staff thanks all who have supported us and quietly supported us. In trying times we look for leadership and find none. There are new fees, fines and taxes. We find gross fiscal mismanagement of funds. We find government enacting new restrictions of what we can and cannot do on our own properties. Restrictions and higher fees for violations on vehicles. All we ask, is that the government balance their check book, we have to. TMC wants the City of Riverside dirt, if you have it, we want it, for example, mismanagement of funds, affairs, illegal property transfers etc. Email us anonymously at thirtymilescorruption@hotmail.com with your dirt.
KEEP CONNECTED WITH TMC, RATED RIVERSIDE'S MOST "SLANDEROUS" AND MEZZSPELLED, "MISSPELLED" AND "OPINIONATED" BLOG SITE! TMC IS NOW EXCLUSIVELY ON FILE WITH THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE'S DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, AND THAT'S ALL WE'RE GOING TO SAY ABOUT THAT ONE… AGAIN, THANK-YOU COMMUNITY OF RIVERSIDE AND THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE EMPLOYEE'S FOR YOUR SUPPORT! COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOMED, ESPECIALLY SPELL CHECKERS!
UPDATE: THE DIRT IS ROLLING IN, AND IT'S ALMOST TIME TO PICK-UP THE TRASH! THANKS RIVERSIDE!
TALKING ABOUT TRASH, DAN BERSTEIN OF PE IS REPORTING FORMER CITY MANAGER BRAD HUDSON FILES A CLAIM AGAINST THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE ALLEGING A TRASH TRUCK BACKED UP INTO HIS 2011 DODGE. CLAIM AGAINST TAXPAYER NEGLIGENCE: $1,075.00, BUT ACTUAL COST $1,434.00. BUT IF YOU EVER LOOKED AT HIS DISCRETIONARY FUND AND THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND, NON OF THE NUMBERS MAKE SENSE EITHER.
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