By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com
The City of Beaumont has removed the Budget information from their 2014/2015 and 2013/2014 Budgets and replaced them with pictures of a ‘state-of-the-art’ wastewater treatment facility. It’s not the City’s facility – it’s pictures the City downloaded off the internet.
The 2012/2013 has been completely removed.
The most recent information now available for the individual department’s budgets is 2010/2011.
Police Department:
The Dept of Public Safety is broken into four divisions: Police, Police Support Services, Animal Services, and Fire. Animal Services has never been a separate department on the Budget.
The 2014 Financial Statements state that Public Safety costs $15.9 Million in the last fiscal year. The City has $14.7 Million budgeted for 2015/2016.
The City lists salaries, but of course it’s a lie. Transparent California lists the City of Beaumont salaries plus benefits for 2013: http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/beaumont/
The City claims that Chief of Police Coe’s salary and benefits total $263,055.70.
Transparent California lists Coe’s 2013 total salary and benefits at $353,059.91.
The City ‘missed it’ by $90,000 – and that’s based on 2013 wages.
Council is wasting their time attempting to set a budget when their Staff is corrupt. Until they fire Kapanicas and hire an honest City Manager that will hire an honest Accounting Staff the Council will continue to be defrauded.
California Government Code 6200: Every officer having the custody of any record, map, or book, or of any paper or proceeding of any court, filed or deposited in any public office, or placed in his or her hands for any purpose, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for two, three, or four years if, as to the whole or any part of the record, map, book, paper, or proceeding, the officer willfully does or permits any other person to do any of the following:
(a) Steal, remove, or secrete.
(b) Destroy, mutilate, or deface.
(c) Alter or falsify.
6201. Every person not an officer referred to in Section 6200, who is guilty of any of the acts specified in that section, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both that fine and imprisonment.
6203. (a) Every officer authorized by law to make or give any certificate or other writing is guilty of a misdemeanor if he or she makes and delivers as true any certificate or writing containing statements which he or she knows to be false.
(b) Notwithstanding any other limitation of time described in Section 802 of the Penal Code, or any other provision of law, prosecution for a violation of this offense shall be commenced within four years after discovery of the commission of the offense, or within four years after the completion of the offense, whichever is later.
(c) The penalty provided by this section is not an exclusive remedy, and does not affect any other relief or remedy provided by law.