Beaumont’s 2016 Year in Review

SEC Subpoenas, Water Board Investigative Order, & 2015 Audit Disclaimer of Opinion: the Results of Millions Spent for Lawyers & Consultants.

Beaumont’s 2016 Year in Review

2015 Ended with FBI Raids and State Controller’s Report exposed Beaumont’s Corruption. Beaumont City Council brought in a new lineup of crooks to pillage the Taxpayers’ money, attempt to acquire more illegal bond debt, and declared: “We can’t hire a City Manager because Kapanicas will sue.”

The Meeting with Water Districts ended with ‘we’ll call you’ from Beaumont City Council.

Citizens’ Initiative to limit growth until Infrastructure was built was crushed by Staff and Council.

TUMF Judgement was dragged out another year adding another $3 Million to the Taxpayers’ Debt.

JANUARY:

• Mike Lara is declared Mayor.
• Urban Futures gifted Contract for ‘Financial Advisor Services’ Taxpayer Cost: Unlimited
• Urban Futures $248,000 CFD Reconciliation Contract turns out to be a $1/4 Million Waste of Time.
• Dirty Della Condon Appointed to replace Jeff Fox.
• First Phony Finance Committee Meeting Held.

FEBRUARY:

• CFD 93-1 is Dissolved and CFD 2016-1 is Created for Area 19B.
• Sheryl Acosta receives $24,337,08.
• Nicole Acosta-Wheelwright gifted position of ‘Assistant City Clerk’.
• CFD 101 Workshop Wasted Undetermined Amount of Taxpayer Money.
• Phony Finance Director Onyx Jones slithers out Melana Taylor is hired a ‘Account Manager’.

MARCH:

• City Council Issues phony Legislative Subpoenas to Union Bank to Release Bond Fund Accounts.
• After 18 Months of pretending to hire another company to operate the Sewer Plant Council Approves continuing with Utility Partners, formerly known as ‘Aquarian’, formally known as ‘Urban Logic Services’.
• Amer Jakher named Beaumont Public Works Director.
• Willdan gifted continuance of NPDES Compliance Contract.
• After what must have been a lethal combination of meth and moonshine; City Manager Pinkney attempts to pass off the City’s Requisitions as Union Bank Bond Fund Accounts.

APRIL:

• Pinkney gifted forever Contract with no financial limit.
• Council Approves funneling $35,000 to Webb and Associates after Webb and Urtiaga make up lie about Debt Service Schedule Documents.
• State Water Resources Control Board Issues Notice of Capacity Violation after City Ignores previous Communication from State.
• Securities and Exchange Commission Issues Subpoenas for City of Beaumont, Beaumont Finance Authority, and Beaumont Community Facilities District.

MAY:

• CFD 2016-1 is Formed.
• City Admits to SEC Investigations.
• Elizabeth Gibbs-Urtiaga is gifted $226,000 ‘City Manager’ Contract that transferred to a ‘Transit Director’ position in the midnight hour after Council Meeting was Adjourned.
• Richard Warne hired as ‘City Manager’.
• Council Approves another $16 Million in Illegal Bonds
• Beaumont’s Expendable Seven are Indicted by the Riverside District Attorney.

JUNE:

• Castaldo Receives $50,000 Payout.
• Council Approves paying Criminal Legal Fees for Lawyers and Consultants.
• Council Approves $67 Million Budget with $28.7 Million Spending in General Fund based on using $5 Million in Mitigation Fees and Overcharging $7.5 Million in CFD Mello Roos Taxes.

JULY:

• Council Hires $900/hr Law Firm of Orrick Herrington Sutcliffe to “Fight the SEC”.
• Council Approves Forged Sewer Financial Statements.
• Webb and Associates gifted $70,000 Contract to Forge 2017 CFD Property Tax Rolls.
• $112,875 Contract to G & G Environmental Consultants for Wastewater Regulatory Support Services/NPDES.
• Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board Issues Investigative Order after preliminary Investigation revealed City Submitted Fraudulent Documents and had no NPDES Permit for Commercial and Industrial Waste.
• RCTC informs Beaumont No Grant Funds will be Issued for Potrero Interchange.

AUGUST:

• Title 22 Engineering Report prepared by Webb & Associates revealed that $5 Million in Infrastructure must be Built Before City can produce Recycled Water.
• Webb & Associates gifted $228,735 for CFD Administration Services.
• Bob Deis gifted another $50,000.
• Mark Thomas receives $22,000 before Council gifted Contract.
• Willdan gifted ‘On Call Building & Safety Inspection Services’ Contract.
• Urban Futures/Bob Deis ‘Workout Plan to Sustainability’ released.
• $75,000 Criminal Legal Fees Approved for Urban Futures.
• Potrero Interchange Rises from Dead.
• SEC Subpoenas blanket the Pass Area.

SEPTEMBER:

• Council attempts to Transfer $5 Million that was Illegally Transferred out of the CFD Bond Fund Accounts from the Sewer Fund to the General Fund.
• Hidden Canyon rises from the Dead.
• CFD 2016-2 is formed.
• Council Approves purchase of land from ASM Beaumont LLC for Potrero Blvd.
• CFD 2016-3 is formed.
• Pardee Files $3 Million Claim for Mitigation Fee Reimbursement.
• Heartland rises from Dead.

OCTOBER:

• Webb & Associates released phony Wastewater Feasibility Study.
• Pardee Homes Improvement Area 7E changes from CFD 93-1 to CFD 2016-4.
• Todd Parton becomes Beaumont City Manager the 4th.

NOVEMBER:

• Morongo Tribe reveals that City promised Title 22 Recycled Water to the Tribe and they want it by the End of the Year.
• Council Ignores reality and Approves ‘go it alone’ $95 Million Sewer Expansion that doesn’t include Recycled Water.
• After two years of not doing their jobs; Nancy Carroll and Julio Martinez are elected to the Beaumont City Council.
• Sunny Cal rises from Dead.
• Brian Forebath from Straddling Yocca confirms that the SEC has locked the City of Beaumont out of the Bond Industry.

DECEMBER:

• Disclaimer of Opinion Issued on Beaumont’s 2014 Financial Statements by Auditing Firm of Van Lant Finkhanel. City hides Auditor Report.
• Finance & Audit Committee laughs off Audit.

2016 ends with Tolling Agreements for every Crook involved in Beaumont’s corruption, no Recycled Water, no Fire Stations, no Local Road Improvements, no Audited Financial Statements, and the continuation of promising to illegally trade Mitigation Fees for Bond Debt.

In 2017 Beaumont Taxpayer can look forward to the outcome of the TUMF Judgement that’s now over $65 Million and the continuation of funneling money to lawyers, consultants instead of providing services – by Council’s Direction and Approval.

Reminisce about the downward slide of Beaumont in the 2015 Year in Review: http://patch.com/california/ba…