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Beaumont Special Session Thursday June 16, 2016

The Beaumont City Council will ‘Receive and File’ the 2016/2017 Budget. On May 17, 2016 Beaumont City Council hired Richard Warner to be the City Manager. On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 the Beaumont City Co … more

Beaumont 2017 Full Version Budget

The City of Beaumont has released their ‘full version’ 3014 pages of the 2016/2017 Budget: http://www.ci.beaumont.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/27709 It’s as if we’ve gone back to when Berg was on the Cou … more

Beaumont’s New ‘Experts’ are All Associates of Beaumont’s Old ‘Experts’

At the June 7, 2016 Beaumont City Councilman Meeting Lloyd White blamed ‘social media’ for the City’s inability to hire honest Staff. Beaumont Councilmen make up stories about following State Hiring L … more

City Plans to Fight SEC Investigation

Beaumont Council Transcript June 7, 2016, Councilman White Asks: “What do you Want Us to do?” Beaumont City Council Transcript June 7, 2016 3:53:30 White: Ms Bingham, I want you to think about this. Y … more

Beaumont 2017 Budget

No Finance Department, No City Clerk Department, No List of Employees for Each Department The City of Beaumont 2016/2017 Budget was released at the June 7, 2016 Council Meeting Item 3.g: http://www.ci … more

$7.5 Million Mello Roos Overcharges on 2017 Budget

The City of Beaumont is ‘Budgeting’ to Charge Mello Roos Property Owners $7.5 Million MORE than Needed to Pay Bond Premium and Interest Payments Page 31/32 from the City of Beaumont 2016/2017 Budget i … more

Beaumont looking at its budget

On Tuesday, the Beaumont City Council got its first look at a budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year, which begins July 1. In any other city, this would be unremarkable, given that the process of developi … more

Hidden Canyon On Planning Commission Agenda

Beaumont Planning Commission Attempts Hidden Canyon Warehouse Zoning and More Houses on June 14, 2016 The Beaumont Planning Commission will meet on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 6:00pm. Agenda Item b. Sun … more

Beaumont Council Meeting, What did We Learn?

Council Fixates on 5th Grade Antics and Ignores SEC Investigation. Council denied the Beaumont-Cherry Valley Parks and Recreation claim to be reimbursed for the Mitigation Fees collected by the City a … more

A $300 million mystery solved

It was a sober reckoning. Beaumont city officials on Tuesday night heard a long-awaited accounting of how more than $300 million in city bond funds were spent in the last 20 years – which includes mon … more

Beaumont Plugs $313 Million in Assets to Forge 2015 Financials

City of Beaumont Plugs Assets to Forge 2014/2015 Financial Statements For 20 years the City of Beaumont has forged their Financial Statements; creating Assets to counteract all the Liabilities. The Bi … more

Authorizing Payment of Lawyers’ Criminal Legal Fees

Once Again Beaumont City Council is being Framed by Their Own ‘Trusted’ Staff. Beaumont City Council Meeting June 7, 2016 Agenda Item 3.e. Resolution Authorizing Payment of Lawyers’ and Consultants’ L … more

Beaumont City Council Agenda June 7, 2016

Final Approval of $13 Million Bond. Urban Futures’s CFD Report is NOT On the Agenda AFTER Being Paid $200,000. Beaumont City Council Agenda June 7, 2016 : http://www.ci.beaumont.ca.us/DocumentCenter/I … more

Pinkney Lied About Union Bank Regulators

Attached is a copy of a letter I received from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) regarding Union Bank. The first page is a letter from the California State Department of Business Oversig … more

Beaumont Mitigation Fee Cycle

Normal Mitigation Fee Cycle: Each Agency establishes Mitigation Fees based on the estimated cost of the development to their agency – city, school district, parks & rec., library, hospital, etc. D … more

City Drained Savings Account

Beaumont transferred $3.7 Million from the Citibank Savings to the Checking Account in September, 2015. September 25, 2015, the City drained the accompanying Savings Account by transferring $3,745,937 … more

City Refuses to Release Payroll & Employee Roster

For the past year several attempts have been made by multiple sources to obtain the City of Beaumont’s Employee Roster and Payroll Records. The latest response from the City is as follows: Request No. … more

City Forges Report to State Controller

City of Beaumont Financial Reports for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2016 California Government Code 53890 et seq. requires local agencies to submit financial reports to the State Controller by October … more

Why mayor had to assure people the city is still functioning

Fear not Beaumont residents. You have every right to be angry. But your troubled city is on a path to recovery. That was the message Mayor Mike Lara presented Thursday in his State of the City address … more

Defendants’ arraignment on charges delayed until August

The arraignments for three former Beaumont city officials were continued Thursday, May 26, to Aug. 19 so all seven defendants in a criminal corruption probe can enter their pleas to charges on the sam … more