By: Jack Smith | Original Article at patch.com
Evidently the Tuesday City Council meeting does not rate coverage from our community newspaper. Not a single word of print in the April 10 issue of the Record Gazette. How disappointing is this?
Did anything of interest to Beaumont citizens occur at the meeting?
· Well, Council by split vote 3-2 approved expanding 4th street westward a few miles. Mitigation fees amounting upwards of $12 million dollars will be traded for developer mitigation fee credits. Net, net – the taxpayers of Beaumont will fork over $12 million dollars to help accommodate the building of mega-warehouses in the Hidden Canyon development south of SR60.
· On a 5-0 vote, The Steiner Group – another consulting group front for Urban Logic – was ousted by Council.
· On a 3-2 split vote, Council rejected the financial statements prepared by our auditing firm Moss, Levy, Harzheim. Guess they will be asked to get the numbers right next time.
· In closed session, Council accepted the resignation of our long time legal counsel David Wysocki.
By any measure, these are pretty significant actions and warrant reporting in our only printed local news source. It is too bad the editor of the Record Gazette does not think so.