Category: City Council
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DEL NORTE SOLID WASTE MARCH 26TH MEETING 2013
BY DONNA WESTFALL Looking back to 2013: Skunks vs Roses It’s clear to me that the County understands we are in a recession and the City does not. What could make it any clearer than the 5% increase discussed at the board meeting March 26, 2013 regarding Kevin Hendrick’s 20 year longevity raise? While…
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City Jumpstarts Water Conservation
Submitted by the City of Crescent City – Community must work together to reach 16% reduction mandated by State July 22, 2015: At a City Council meeting on Monday night, City Utilities Manager Tom Romesberg gave a presentation describing the current status of Crescent City’s water supply and drought measures enacted by the State. An April 1,…
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Bid Rigging on the WWTP?
By Donna Westfall – June 29, 2015 CREDIT TO DAVID SCHOLL, Publisher to Dixon’s Independent Voice Before the videos of the Crescent City, City Council meetings were destroyed and during the years of 2008 through 2010, I asked whether or not the bid was rigged referring to the one and only $37 million Wahlund bid…
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Cleaning Up Graffiti and Blight In Crescent City
By Donna Westfall Every year before the 4th of July, our City gets cleaned up. Wouldn’t it be nice if our city felt pride of ownership and were as invested in keeping it nice and clean year round for all of us that live here? In a series of email communications sent to Mayor…
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More Sneaky, Conniving and Unprofessional Behavior By City Agency This Time
OPINION PIECE BY DONNA WESTFALL I was chatting with my friend last night who lives out of town and is knowledgable about all sorts of things like training grand juries and how city’s can pull a fast one over the public by wording agenda items to mislead. I ran this by her. Agenda Item #14 on…
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Enough is Enough
“Enough is enough,” say the Board of Directors and Officers of the Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayers Association upon hearing of the City’s plan to increase the sewer rate another 25%. The Taxpayers Association plans on initiating a lawsuit against the City for malfeasance for the city’s refusal to investigate. Board member Wes Nunn had this to say,…
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Protesting the Upcoming 25% Sewer Rate Increase
BY DONNA WESTFALL Monday is a holiday. The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 17th. At that meeting they will be asking for a 25% sewer rate increase. The agenda totals 382 pages, so agenda item number 14, the last item of the night will discuss the sewer rates. To stop the…
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Looking Back to 2007 Comments on Sewer Rates
BY DONNA WESTFALL From the transcribed audio tapes dated September 26, 2007. A workshop was held at the Cultural Center in Crescent City by the City Council and staff. Ely Naffah, City Manager “….they (developers) pay up front, the hook-up fee, which covers like about 17 years of the loan payment, and then they start paying…
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CORRUPT ILLOGICALITY AND WHITE COLLAR CRIME
OPINION PIECE BY DONNA WESTFALL Have you heard about the former manager at Madoff’s firm being sentenced to six years in prison? Apparently, Annette Bongiorno worked nearly 40 years for the firm and was indicted in 2010 not as a coldly calculating participant in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme but willfully blinded herself to the “corrupt illogicality”…
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City Asks For Another $36 Million for Phase 2 on WWTP
BY DONNA WESTFALL Unbelievable! Not only is the city in default within 3 years of taking out the State Revolving Loan which was predicted, and today having to go before the State Water Resource Board to get approval on eliminating the 2.4% interest rate, but to read their paperwork they are outright lying about the population in our…