Council Cuts Employee Benefits then Pays Deis to Lobby for Kapanicas

By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com

Council Proudly Cut Employee Benefits then Paid $10,000 to Urban Futures for Kapanicas’ Lobbyists.

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On the Same Night that Beaumont City Council Patted Themselves on the Back for Cutting City Employees’ Benefits they approved Check # 90377 to pay Urban Futures $10,273.99.

Urban Futures submitted an Invoice for Bob Deis’ services. Deis was paid $10,000 to lobby for Kapanicas’ $1/4 Million Payout.

Urban Futures has appeared three times to provide ‘updates’ to Beaumont City Council regarding the City’s finances. Urban Futures has never submitted an Invoice for all of the hundreds of hours they claim to have worked 952 hours in the past four months, but they did present a report nor have they presented an Invoice.

The Verbal Report to Council consists of what is referred to in the business as ‘gobbly goop’.

There is nothing in writing. There is nothing resolved.

How long should it take a ‘team of accountants’ to assess the City’s Funds?

Less than a month.

What’s Urban Futures been doing for the past four months?

Just stringing the City along.

Why – what did anyone expect Kapanicas’ business associates to do?