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Closed Session, 6:00 p.m.
CA government code 54957.6. Conference with labor
negotiator. Agency Negotiator: Carol Stevens. Firefighters Local 2400, Battalion Chiefs Local 856.
Open Session, 7 p.m. Closed Session Report.
Consent Calendar
Consent Calendar
1. Approval of disbursements: FY 2014-15, 12/9/14 - 1//6/15.
3. Continued 4/12/10 proclamation of the existence of cliff erosion,
landslide ground substance and failure of revetment supporting the storm
drainage at 380 and 400 Esplanade Avenue.
4. Resolution rescinding Resolution 38-2006, City Directors to the Municipal Pooling Authority of Northern California (self-funded worker's compensation pool). Appoint City Manager, Director; Assistant City Manager, Voting Alternative Director. Old Resolution, new Resolution.
5. Fire Fighter IAFF local 2400 members employment contract, 1/12/15 - 12/31/18. Fiscal impact, approximately $300,000 increase in salaries over the three (3) years. Resolution, Memorandum of Understanding, pdf pages 48.
6. Resolution increasing the Financial Services Manager position upper limit salary range from $121,152 to $130,000; the lower limit range remains $105,372. Financial Services Manager position.
Special presentations - Poet Laureatte, Dorsetta Hale. HIP Housing, Laura Fanucchi
7. City Council 2015 liason and committee assignments, with any modifications. Report, proposed listing.
Adjourn. Note: Pacifica Fire Department photograph by Maggie Stagg from an Inside Bay Area/Pacifica Tribune, 7/29/10 article.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
5. Fire Fighter IAFF local 2400 members employment contract, 1/12/15 - 12/31/18. Fiscal impact, approximately $300,000 increase in salaries over the three (3) years. Resolution, Memorandum of Understanding, pdf pages 48.
6. Resolution increasing the Financial Services Manager position upper limit salary range from $121,152 to $130,000; the lower limit range remains $105,372. Financial Services Manager position.
Special presentations - Poet Laureatte, Dorsetta Hale. HIP Housing, Laura Fanucchi
7. City Council 2015 liason and committee assignments, with any modifications. Report, proposed listing.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
27 comments:
Oh look! Salary increases. In real news...Kim Jong-un bought the Quarry as a home for the Golden State Warriors which he also bought. The man loves the game on a cellular level. Rodman will act as General Manager and Coach. Kim will also buy Harmony @ 1 in its entirety because he likes the name and he can watch games from home. Hey, Kimbo, the name of the town is Pacifica. Put any ideas in your head?
Why are Consent Items 4 and 5 not on the itemized agenda? Surely things that cost more money should have a public hearing. I guess staff likes their money quiet.
Todd
They did it just to give you another reason to bitch!
Read the MOU for item #5 and you'll wish you could be a fireman in a sleepy little town like Pacifica. Mother of God! The pension, the benefits, the goodies! Lest my shack go up in smoke or I require defib, let me say I don't begrudge them a cent. Happy to shell out, just insanely jealous.
No wonder those guys in the photo look so happy. Come to think of it, firemen always seem happy.
So much for the Chamber not getting any city money.
1 28628 $6429.00 12/30/14 01249 0 PACIFICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OUTSTANDING
146 Before you get your glow on, what's the check for?
I could be wrong, but I thought that the new position of Assistant City Manager was suppose to replace the Financial Services Manager.
I don't think it was ever made clear as to how many mgmt level positions would be filled. Trib 10/30/14 announced the hiring of Lorenzo Hines as assistant city manager to oversee Finance, HR, IT, Risk Mgmt and Garbage Franchise Admin. His recent prior experience includes Finance Director for the cities of Lynwood and Edmond WA. He is a CPA. Sounds fully qualified to either be a Finance Director or to oversee one. With all the talent they're hiring, I'd like to think Council and CM are focused on organizational excellence and sound financials rather than that new library and finding someone to pay for that "free" trail. Silly me. They're focused on all of that.
But did they ever find or explain the "unaccounted for" $4,000,000.
@4:00 Doesn't seem to be a priority, does it? Needs some publicity. Sic one of those TV investigative reporters on it. Pretty outrageous for a town this size to lose track of 4 million dollars in public funds. Where'd it go? Beach Blvd I and II, Palmetto, trail betw Rockaway and LM, counsultants? Who knows? No finance director for 7 or so years. What would you expect to happen?Just about exactly what happened.
So the PD and City Manager and everyone else deserves a raise by the fire fighters?
Time to subpoena Ritzma.
I'd like to know who knew what and when. Current and previous council members (2006-2014) and the previous CM should answer that one under oath. I don't believe anyone did anything illegal, but I do think some people knowingly hid this situation for as long as possible. That decision may have been well within the scope of their jobs, but it's time to come clean with the public and restore trust.
ask Digre about the missing $4M. She was on council when it all disappeared.
Not gonnahappen.
It's the old CYA drill at city hall. No one does it better than small town politicians. No get out of jail free cards on this for anyone except Keener. They all should have known and could have known. Especially the select few with close working relationships with the previous CMs. It's not rocket science and they're not that stupid or naive although it may be the only alibi they can come up with. Time really is their biggest ally. Haven't we all nearly forgotten about the $350K the city accidentally sent to the state back in 2013 when the Redevelopment Agency was closed out? Still waiting for that refund, are we?
Sue says all the money was in a box down at city hall. Sea level rise and global warming came along and flushed all the money out to sea.
The issue of items 4&5 being on the consent calendar and not being a set of agendized items further erodes public input, and so public trust.
When our public sector negotiates with itself for compensation, and benefit increases are then present to council in a closed session meeting the public, who is footing the bill, is taken out of the equation completely.
When these contract increases are then placed on a consent calendar rather than an agendizing the contract increases it insures literally no public comment or input.
(For those that don't know a closed session of council is a private meeting that the 5 council members are forbidden to discuss publicly).
It seems to me our public sector has created their own little in house ATM machine at everyone expense but their own. It's quite the racket to be sure. Unlike the constant call for economic development that this blog propagates there is a greater need for our public sector to control their financial lust at the publics expense out of the publics view or ability to comment.
7:34
It all comes to an end in bankruptcy court sooner than later.
Anonymous said...
Time to subpoena Ritzma.
January 11, 2015 at 10:42 AM
I notice Ritzma and Rhodes high tailed it out of town right before the $4,000,000 "unaccounted" for dollars were umm missing or misplaced.
Time to subpoena them both.
You can't subpoena anybody until someone files some sort of legal action.
Wasting public money on silly pet projects is bad.
"Misplacing" $4,000,000 of public money is completely over the top.
Nothing less than full disclosure and accountability is required.
I believe anything to do with negotiated compensation (fire fighters) is done in closed session and then approved on consent. The money for the Chamber is the BID money that was in arrears.
Willing to believe that all that happened is they failed to make appropriate accounting entries for inter-fund transfers. Not willing to believe no one on council knew the books were such a mess. Leading council members were a little too "in charge" and working closely with Rhodes for that to fly. In typical Pacifica City Council Clusterfuck fashion, they have managed to make it look worse than it probably is. Why didn't Ritzma get the CM job? I wonder if they'd have gone outside to hire the new CM if Tinfow didn't have those mad library-building skills? Oh my, the tough decisions our stalwart public servants are faced with in carrying out their sworn oath of office. Chills.
BID money? Explain.
Yeah, 812, so they can tell us which council members were aware for years of this little problem and allowed it to grow on their watch.
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