Agenda Item 4.d. Amer Jakher Gifted Public Works Director Contract

No one has operated Beaumont’s Sewer Plant except Urban Logic since 1993. The City was supposed to replace Utility Partners, which morphed from Urban Logic Services, in May, 2015, but the Bid disappeared once it was disclosed that the City was forging the Public Bid.

Deepak Moorjani, Former Public Works Director and Principal of Urban Logic, went into hiding years ago. On April 21st Urban Logic Principal Keran McKiernan stated that Moorjani still worked for the City through Urban Logic.

After the FBI Raids former Urban Logic Employee and front for Dave Dillon, Kyle Warsinski, proclaimed that Moorjani submitted his Resignation effective March 31, 2015.

A Public Records Request for Moorjani’s Resignation revealed that there were no Resignations from Moorjani, Dillion, Eggers, or James Gregg.

Now Beaumont Staff is presenting Council with another corrupt Engineer from a 3rd World Country; Amer Jakhar.

Jakhar is the Public Works Director from another corrupt City, Colton. On September 5, 2015, the San Bernardino Sentinel mentioned Jakhar in the City’s corruption scandal: http://sbcsentinel.com/2015/09/compton-turns-back-coltons-effort-to-quas…

During the latter part of his first year at Colton’s helm, he came across a number of operational and accounting anomalies in the city’s public works division and capital projects. He utilized his authority as city manager, under which he could enter into contracts of up to $25,000 without first obtaining city council approval, to initiate reviews of the public works department and the city’s capital works operations and funding.

That proved to be a political faux pas on Compton’s part. Colton’s public works director, Amer Jakher, was held in high esteem by the city’s then-mayor, Sarah Zamora, the widow of the mayor who preceded her, David Zamora. Before he was elected mayor in 2010 and died in 2011, David Zamora had been Colton community development director and had a close friendship with Jakher.

Following her husband’s death, Sarah Zamora was chosen as his replacement by a city council that was stunned by David Zamora’s untimely demise. In office, Sarah Zamora proved both reluctant and incapable of reining in Jakher or holding him to account, even as his department undertook projects that had not been given previous approval by the city council. Zamora’s attitude was emulated by most of the remainder of the council.

Jakhar is also referenced in a ’30 Miles of Corruption’ article: https://thirtymilesofcorruption.com/tag/city-of-colton/

Beaumont City Council must hire an honest Staff.  Gibbs-Urtiage, Deming, and Warsinski are still working for the Old Guard.  They can not be trusted.